I was an English major in college. My mom was an English teacher. All my life, I’ve valued words; and I always have believed that you communicate only when you choose the right words and put them in the right order. So from the day I became HUD’s web manager, my number one personal goalRead… Read more »
A trade summit with China last week neglected to address the most pressing trade problem facing our two nations head on: how to resolve the conflict surrounding the US’ tariff on Chinese-manufactured car tires, which (of course) is linked to their hitting us with a similar tariff on chickens. There’s nothing to do but escalateRead… Read more »
If you are, I would like to invite you to join TFCN (The Federal Contractor Network). The address is http://www.tfcn.us TFCN has over 20,000 members, 20 LinkedIn groups, industrial-grade Job Board, Business Directory and much, much more. I look forward to seeing you on TFCN! – Alex George TFCN Creator
A friend wished me a “Happy Veteran’s Day” at 1201 this morning. He was the first to send such a wish in my direction this year. A fellow veteran, I replied “Happy Veteran’s Day” back, but somehow the word “Happy” just doesn’t feel like it belongs. Maybe it’s the rain and clouds this morning. MaybeRead… Read more »
Federal News Radio has a great lineup of guests today to honor the nation’s veterans. First, we got the chance to speak with Army Secretary McHugh before the memorial held yesterday at Fort Hood. He discussed with us the internal investigation going on to determine how this horrible incident occurred. To read the full story,Read… Read more »
A previous post laid out the Focus on Efficiency Framework: Plan – Decide – Implement – Review – Repeat. In this post I’ll spend some time talking about Deciding. In many cases the Decision to Implement is made in the blink of an eye, even before Planning. And after investing resources in the Planning phaseRead… Read more »
In our first open government series we talked about how intermediate goals (which reside between the temptation to go straight to “cool tools” and the overall vision of “government as a platform”), are critical to focus on when developing an open government strategy for an Agency that will ultimately help them achieve their mission better.Read… Read more »
Check out the photo stream from the symposium http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhdfoundation/?saved=1
O’Reilly Media is pleased to announce its first Gov 2.0 Online Conference, scheduled for December 10, 2009. The O’Reilly Gov 2.0 Online Conference is a FREE, three-hour event that will show off some of the brightest examples of Web 2.0 technologies creating greater collaboration, transparency, and efficiencies in government – from the comfort and convenienceRead… Read more »
Dan Smith, Govplace Director of Professional Services, will be presenting “Practical Techniques for Securing your Cloud Environment” at the 1105 Government Information Group Security Conference on Thursday, November 12 at the Ronald Reagan Building in DC. With all of the talk about the potential of cloud computing it is good to get some insight intoRead… Read more »