Check out this awesome interview with Tim Somella, YGL’s President. Tom Fox’s ‘The Federal Coach’ column in the Washington Post featured a brief 1-on-1 with the fearless leader yesterday. Would you have answered these questions the same way? If not, what are your thoughts?
One of the joys of sudden web trends is the speed at which the too-cool-for-school types start to affect disdain and boredom for something that’s been popular for all of a week or so.Take Quora.com– a US-based site which styles itself as ‘a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized byRead… Read more »
After far too long, my “Data Dynamite: unleash information to transform our world” book is finally in the editing stages, and should be released as an e-book later this winter. One of the key points is that we need to think holistically about data (especially tagged data), so that there are unified strategies for internallyRead… Read more »
This post is the first in a series on the recently-passed GPRA Modernization Act of 2010. The bill is 19 pages long and the media has not provided the level of detail that a performance wonk might find helpful. So I’ll be providing summaries and extracts from law and the Senate committee report over theRead… Read more »
NOTE: Below is my personal view of the report. The only people entitled to offer a definitive opinion about vendor placement are the authors of the report themselves. My opinion is not a substitute for speaking to the analysts directly using the inquiry time available to paid subscribers to Gartner’s advisory services. As an ITRead… Read more »
Some people have asked me, what were the 10 most viewed posts from last year? Well here as posts that were written last year in order of popularity (excluding static pages and the homepage): Case Study: How Open data saved Canada $3.2 Billion Learning from Libraries: The Literacy Challenge of Open Data Why Old MediaRead… Read more »
With a looming (up to) $8M deficit in Ohio’s budget, the folks over at the Columbus Dispatch have given their readers a chance to “do the budget dance” themselves with a little interactive tool. This tool will let readers try to balance Ohio’s budget by removing different subsidies, raising or lowering taxes, and cutting orRead… Read more »
“More?? You want more??!” is the cry we remember from Oliver Twist’s warden when poor Oliver asks for more gruel at the orphanage. Well, this is actually not the common response from employers when candidates have negotiated their salary, even in this economy. I have coached several job seekers in the last month to successfullyRead… Read more »
This blog post originally appeared on my blog, “Social Media Strategery.” Ugh – the phrase 2011 social media resolutions returns more than 12 million search results on Google and I find most of them totally insufferable. Let me guess – in 2011, you resolve to “blog more often,” “double the number of Twitter followers youRead… Read more »
A new data model for U.S. federal legislative information provided by the Library of Congress (LC) will be developed by The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School, led by director and co-founder Tom Bruce — a member of our community — according to an announcement on the LII Announce blog. This modelRead… Read more »