A few people expressed interest in this conference and asked me to report back on it. So here’s my blog: http://oreil.ly/ccK4vg I didn’t catch any talks directly related to government. One interesting talk was on implementing mobile applications in health care using open source SOA tools and libraries.
On O’Reilly Radar: Fred Trotter gives a history of open source inhealth IT and explains how open source–and even more, open data–iscrucial: http://oreil.ly/cGXmRq
We’re fired up to announce that we won the most substantive segment of the first annual HRtechnology(R) Ironman Competition hosted HR systems integrator, HRchitect. Four vendors including, Newton Software faced off against one another in a competition judged by panelists that preregistered for the event in order to learn more about mid-market applicant tracking software.
The obvious definition of a hashtag is a word or combination of words, preceded by the hash sign (#) more commonly known as the pound sign on your phone. The practical definition is that hashtags are identifiers used on microblogging sites such as twitter to link a post to a particular subject. This allows otherRead… Read more »
We’re always hearing from our customers that they need more lead time to know the classes that we’ll be offering, especially because many agencies require employees to put in their training requests for the next fiscal year sometime in the summer. So I’m excited that for the first time Web Manager University will be announcingRead… Read more »
This past weekend I was listening to Government 2.0 Radio and the guest was Carol Spencer, Web Manager for Morris County, New Jersey. Carol brings some truly unique insights to this role based upon her past roles as an elected official and multiple years spent in Marketing at IBM. I followed up with Carol afterRead… Read more »
I love Posterous. I really do. It’s very user friendly compared to my hosted WordPress blog. Plus I can post via email from Posterous. WP can too….but it’s a real pain to set up. Oh yeah plus WP plugins break my blog. (A lot.) But I don’t want to lose SEO by switching. Need advice.Read… Read more »
Blog Series: So You Hired a Gen Y – Now Get The Most Out of Them! A Tolero Solutions blog series on how to utilize Gen Y using the Gen Y Recruitment and Retention Lifecycle™ By: Scott Span, MSOD Phase 2 – Assess In a previous post So You Hired a Gen Y – NowRead… Read more »
There is a policy at work I don’t agree with, and yesterday I poked my boss (again) to remind him that it doesn’t align with the direction that’s been set out for our organization. I asked him how I could help change it. He said I could be patient. I’ve been told to be patientRead… Read more »
Last week, a friend told me about a presentation she’d just done for some local elected officials, on making government websites customer-friendly. She said the session had gone really well – they got it. But this is what caught my attention. She said some of these government officials had never thought about their websites inRead… Read more »