Intel Corp. recently launched the website Explore Intel to publicly disclose valuable environmental impact information for its Fab 11 facility in New Mexico. When you go to the site, be sure to click on the “Additional Environmental Data” tab, this is where you’ll be able to see where Intel’s New Mexico facility is improving andRead… Read more »
Plan ahead; anticipate the unexpected, take steps to prevent problems before they occur. Success at work, home, or at school is not living in crisis. Even firefighters only spend 3 to 5 percent of their time fighting fires. Instead spend more of your time doing things that are important – value added – when they’reRead… Read more »
Last weekend at TranspoCamp East, I met David Mahfouda, co-founder of Weeels. Weeels is a Brooklyn-based taxi-sharing service that launched a year ago. To use it, you just tell the system where you are, where you want to go, and when, and it matches you with a rider going your way. The two (or more)Read… Read more »
“I guess my attack to this has always been from the perspective of are we working in a bubble. In other words, when this was… under this initiative by the President, how quick was the takeup by the population at large? Not by the people that we affectionately call geeks, or people who don’t haveRead… Read more »
While the White House and Congress work on a compromise to fund the government for the rest of the year, many federal programs will continue to be kicked around like political footballs, leaving your employees uncertain about the road ahead. The result? Stress. The anxiety among federal workers will likely increase over the next coupleRead… Read more »
NJ TRANSIT launched Twitter accounts to provide service advisories, and the agency’s new online scorecard invites customers to sign up for a survey. Original post
We took a ‘Field of Dreams’ approach to our IRS Recruitment Facebook page.Only a few months after creating our page, job applicants were flocking to Facebook in search of answers to their questions about employment at the IRS. In a little more than a year and a half, we saw our number of fans jumpRead… Read more »
WHAT’S UP WITH ETHICS? Roll Call reports. “Following a year in which it conducted more than 100 inquiries and a rare public trial, the House Ethics Committee has had a glacial start in the 112th Congress.” HATCH AND… ZUCK. The Hill. “Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a Tea Party target who’s expected to face a toughRead… Read more »
Fast Lane, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood’s blog, made Federal Computer Week’s list of six federal blogs worth a visit. Original post
LA Metro (CA) is looking for mobile applications and web mash-ups that will enhance the rider experience. Original post