The Obama administration is calling once again on federal employees to submit ideas on improving government services. This time, it is targeting the amount of time and effort it takes to process veterans’ disability benefits. The number of unresolved disability claims has soared this year, prompting protests from veterans groups and members of Congress. TheRead… Read more »
Chicago shut down most city offices on Monday in an effort to save more than $8 million by year’s end amid the economic slowdown. Mayor Richard M. Daley has made several cuts to the city budget and has forced himself and some city workers to take a 15-day pay cut. In doing so, he recentlyRead… Read more »
And here it comes …. the end of year push. This is the real fun part of the year. This is when everyone, on the financial side of the government, lives off of coffee, doughnuts, and pizza. 🙂 And somehow, for two months, we live with only 4 hours of sleep everynight (if that much).Read… Read more »
The guys over at Floxee have added new functionality to make it easier for the Gov 2.0 community to add names to the GovTwit directory. Look for the new “Recommend Someone” button on the homepage. You can now click this button, add a Twitter ID and related tags and hit “recommend.” The entry will thenRead… Read more »
An interesting thing happened over at the DoD’s web 2.0 Guidance Forum last week as the “use of web 2.0 by families” topic attracted well over 200 comments from wives, mothers, fathers, active servicemen and women about how critical the new tools are to keep in touch. Craig Newmark blogged about it, including pulling outRead… Read more »
If you are interested in the evolving subject of piracy on the high seas, you may be interested in a recent special feature package on Combating Piracy posted on the America.gov web site. For more see: http://www.america.gov/piracy.html
Interesting editorial: http://tinyurl.com/p2n4pe I say “editorial” because it’s very much an (albeit educated) opinion of the author (Michael Daconta), and I’m not sure I agree with all of it. I guess I’m usually more of a mind to make these new ideas work in a government environment rather than saying a given technology is “tooRead… Read more »
Good morning! It’s your weekly dose of TSP Talk. This market commentary is updated daily on www.tsptalk.com. Stocks dropped sharply on Friday after a weaker than expected Consumer Confidence report, but there was some late buying. The TSP stock funds lost between 0.5% and 1.5% on the day, while bonds were up slightly. The MichiganRead… Read more »
As we talked about earlier I wanted to follow up with an email. We as DIT, want to keep the bandwidth and storage as low as possible because that is an easy way to save money. But we want to give great quality of service to our customers. To accomplish all of those goals itRead… Read more »
Next week, I’ve been asked to host an “IT Quarterly Forum,” a three-hour session of typically senior IT managers around gov’t and industry. The subject is social media. I have the privilege of working with two of my Social Media Subcouncil colleagues, Michelle Springer at the Library of Congress and Amanda Eamich at the Dept.Read… Read more »