Republished from eGov AU. In their Global Faces and Networked Places report (PDF), Neilsen has found that social networks and blogs (Member Communities) are now the 4th most popular online category – ahead of personal email. In December 2008 Neilsen found that 59% of online Australians used social networks and blogs, compared to 80% inRead… Read more »
Happy Thursday! House lawmakers begin consideration of a bill today that gives Transportation Security Administration employees the same collective bargaining rights and whistleblower protections enjoyed by most other federal employees. The House Homeland Security Committee today will consider the Transportation Security Workforce Enhancement Act of 2009, introduced earlier this year by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.).Read… Read more »
This week’s Project of the Week features the Federally Employed Women organization. Thanks to GovLoop member Patt Franc and to Sue Webster and Rachel Combs of FEW for sharing their story. Federally Employed Women (FEW) is 4000 members strong and is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1968 after the issuance of Executive Order 11375Read… Read more »
The FAIR Institute launched a new oped series today called FAIR Point of View Series with a paper by David Litman titled “A call to restructure the acquisition workforce”… The paper advocates for the creation of a single acquisition job series that encompasses at least three functions, “program management, contracting and a new function calledRead… Read more »
Check http://www.computing.co.uk:80/computing/news/2245571/government-always-best-option Dr D.C.Misra
On LGBT Asylum News I recently added a Google Translation widget. I’ve just got my first feedback on it and it’s good, apparently it’s a useful add-on! The widget is from madtomato and shows flags for six languages. You click and it sends you to Google Translate, where you can pick another language. It’s notRead… Read more »
The La Follette School Student Association, a student organization for the La Follette School of Public Affairs, has created La Flog to: 1. Share events and discussions of La Follette Students in a public forum; 2. Raise awareness of La Follette, LSSA, and the policy issues we study; and, 3. Collaborate and interact through technology.Read… Read more »
This is my article from my site Durham, NC is the county seat of Durham County and also extends into Wake county. It is the fifth largest city in the state by population, with 217,847 residents as of July 1, 2007. It is the home of Duke University and North Carolina Central University, and isRead… Read more »
Using Twitterfeed I’ve set up a new Twitter account which will be updating with new posts from UK Public Sector Bloggers. These are the bloggers which are on the page which Dave Briggs set up last year. He says: The bloggers I have used so far aren’t just civil servants, or local government officers, butRead… Read more »
Happy Wednesday! It appears that a good chunk of economic stimulus funding is going right into the nation’s roads, according to a GAO update set for release today about the massive government spending project. The Congressional auditing agency must deliver a bi-monthly stimulus progress report and is tracking the 16 largest states and the DistrictRead… Read more »