(WASHINGTON) – The American Federation of Government Employees commended Representative Tom Perriello (D-VA) for his amendment to the FY11 National Defense Authorization Act which would exclude health care and retirement costs from any insourcing cost comparisons when contractors contribute less toward health care and retirement benefits for contractor employees than Congress requires the Department ofRead… Read more »
How Law Enforcement Can Better Control Their Message Using Social Media!
Law enforcement has basically been at the mercy of the news media. Whether issuing press releases, responding to a high profile case, or requesting help from citizens in a missing person case the police were (are) at the behest of the media to communicate there message. Social media offers alternative options for law enforcement agenciesRead… Read more »
Library of Congress to Support Geospatial Data Preservation
The Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution that serves as the “research arm” for Congress. The Library’s mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. And, now theRead… Read more »
Free “Power of Pull” Book Launch Party this Friday (6/4) at L2 Lounge in Georgetown
Rub elbows with the author’s of “Power of Pull” this Friday evening at the free book launch party at L2 Lounge in Georgetown. “Power of Pull,” has won acclaim from readers like President Bill Clinton, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and “Megatrends” author John Naisbitt. Authors (and Deloitte Center for the Edge leaders) John Hagel and JohnRead… Read more »
Rockin’ the World with Social Good
During my time here at GovLoop I will be blogging (excessively) on an array of topics related to technology, development, and diplomacy. An area of particular interest to me is how technology can advance humanitarian work and the development of aid around the world; which can entail looking at how technology has changed access toRead… Read more »
Integrated Risk & Knowledge Management for Space Exploration
Thought the community might find our approach to integrating risk and knowledge management of interest…..see attached article. — Dave Managing_Risk_on_the_Final_Frontier_-_Defense_AT&L_Magazine_May-June_2010.pdf
Measuring Return On Investment (ROI) on knowledge management products?
Anyone know of a model or methodology for measuring ROI on knowledge management tools? -social networking -document management -information management -communications management Preferably in the Public Sector but private sector will do. Regards,
CB2: Here I am, rock you like a hurricane.
Hey GovLoopers! I’m happy to announce that I’ll be contributing Chris Bennett’s Crisis Blog (or CB2, not to be confused with Chris Rock’s “rockumentary” CB4) each Wednesday, highlighting cool and important things going on in emergency technology. Please share the comment love to kick this off! Let’s start things here: it’s June, and you knowRead… Read more »
Video Available for Law.gov U.S. House of Representatives Event
Video is now available for the Law.gov Event at the U.S. House of Representatives held 25 May 2010 at the Longworth House Office Building in Washington, DC, USA. Click here for the conference program. Click here for archived Twitter tweets from the workshop (scroll down to tweets from May 25, 2010). Click here for informationRead… Read more »
Gov 2.0 Expo Highlights
I was fortunate enough to end up at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington DC. First of all, if you are ever in DC stay at the DC Guest House. Big thanks to Laurel Ruma at O’Reilly for turning me on to the place. Second, the Expo was on the whole, pretty awesome. There wereRead… Read more »