Happy Monday! It may soon get much harder for political appointees to “burrow” into their agencies at any time — not just during presidential election years. Currently agencies must only seek permission from the Office of Personnel Management to move a political appointee into a career job during a presidential election year. But starting Jan.Read… Read more »
Collected topical posts from Wired To Share Semantics: Why Twitter Lists Rock Lots has been said about Twitter Lists – Robert Scoble is doing some great analysis, as are govies like Sarah Bourne of Mass.Gov. I have two big first impressions: Lists are a fabulous discovery tool, a data rich and hand-picked crowd tagged withRead… Read more »
Can’t attend the premier symposium on Homeland Security and Homeland Defense? You can still benefit by using social networking. The Twiter site goes live at 7am (NHDFoundation) where you are encouraged to ask questions of both vendors and speakers (will will hand deliver them and get you answers). We will be running a live FlickrRead… Read more »
Focusing on Efficiency is about making a concerted effort to utilize our limited resources to the best possible advantage to accomplish our mission. Sounds good right, but how? Over the next several posts I’ll be laying out a Plan-Decide-Implement-Review-Repeat framework you can use to help your organization use your limited resources to the best possibleRead… Read more »
The dominant first year theme of the new Administration has been the importance of achieving “transparency” to build citizen trust. The transparency ideal—inarguable in principle—is difficult in execution. To this end, most of the available leadership bandwidth has been consumed by public promotion of a data centric portal strategy as a means to achieve transparency.Read… Read more »
http://www.thecsaedge.com/EdgeNov09.pdf Hi Everyone – We all know that good service is fast service. And government is notorious for moving too slowing and having processes that are much to complicated. Red Tape, anyone? Kaizen process improvement is a quick way to make huge improvements to processes by cutting the seven categories of waste. Also in thisRead… Read more »
In part 4, we discussed identification of the employer by employees. Related is the use of disclaimers. The use of disclaimers is a frequently suggested guideline. If chosen employers should request that employees post disclaimers on their personal websites stating that the views expressed on those websites are those of the employees and not thoseRead… Read more »
In case anyone needs more reasons why investing time in social media should be strongly considered, especially at the local government level, I offer this case study (from my own view, of course). In the last three weeks, the H1N1 vaccine has been slowly rolling out to local jurisdictions. In Fairfax County, we’ve now hostedRead… Read more »
Whats your favorite Gov Holiday? 16.1% Columbus Day 35.5% Veterans Day 14.5% Presidents Day 33.9% MLK Day
Twitter has started its mass roll out of lists and I just created my first of public sector people (and hangers on) I follow. I laughed out loud when I clicked through to see I’d been already added onto 28 existing lists – and what those list titles are. According to some of my followers,Read… Read more »