Difficult budget times produce changes in government. One trend that I have been watching with interest is the drive to use IT to help government be more transparent. Before computers were found in government, a “paper trail” was considered good government because transactions and government decisions could be reviewed and reconstructed using files for theRead… Read more »
Staff turnover is as inevitable as death and taxes, and for government it looms on the horizon. According to the Office of Personnel Management projections, by the end of 2015 more than 50 percent of the 7,746 senior executives in place at the beginning of 2011 will have left government. As these executives leave theirRead… Read more »
The writing is on the wall and it’s on the Facebook wall if Sky News are to be believed as they analyse a second successive slump of Facebook usage. People are not just wandering off to some other network either – 100,000 Britons actively deleted their accounts in their entirety last year. It seems, asRead… Read more »
Cross-posted from the IBM Center for the Business of Government, co-authored with Dan Chenok. The newest business term making the rounds is “social business.” Of course, we hesitate to say “newest,” as there may be a new term by the time this blog is posted (this morning, in fact, we saw a reference to somethingRead… Read more »
“Know Thy Communication Style” Using Smart Conversations® to speak your truth and enhance all of your relationships A PublicForum Webinar Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 12:00 Eastern (New York) / 16:00 GMT (60 minute webinar with optional 30 minute Q&A) Free for Circle Club members $20 USD for nonmembers Registrants receive access to the session recordingRead… Read more »
Authored by GovWin’s Sean Tucker What will it take to survive in the federal IT market in fiscal year 2012? The smartest companies are already gameplanning for the new reality. The 2011 federal budget process was one of the messiest on record. Political battles left the government operating without a true budget for most ofRead… Read more »
Following my previous post about the upcoming Deliberative Poll here in California, I have been invited to attend the event as an observer. From the invitation email: I am writing to invite you to observe an exciting civic engagement event this summer that will help chart the course for California’s future. On June 24-26, aRead… Read more »
In yet another sign of the Obama Administration’s commitment to renewable energy, energy efficiency and electric grid modernization, the USDA has announced that it will invest $250 million to modernize rural America’s electric grid with smart grid technology. The funding will be managed by the USDA’s Rural Utilities Service, and will cover a 12-month period.Read… Read more »
Posting Price Negotiation Memos (PNMs) to a secure government database — I love it. Scuttlebutt has it DOD is working on this. I don’t know much else beyond that. Still, an informal (and unscientific) survey in a CON 217 class turned up massive skepticism, even rejection, mostly because of proprietary info. This is a legitimateRead… Read more »
The first Kind of Digital webchat went really well, with twenty people online in total and at least half of those contributing during the conversation. Not bad at all for a first go. The subject of the chat was how the web can help promote local democracy amongst citizens and communities. You can download aRead… Read more »