Supporters of paid parental leave for federal employees just picked up some big (though not unexpected) support from the White House. The Office of Management and Budget issued the following statement: Being able to spend time at home with a new child is a critical part of building a strong family. The initial bonding betweenRead… Read more »
Below is a near-final draft of Roanoke County, Virginia’s Twitter Guidelines. This is structured as a working guideline document to help guide our local county departments on how to implement Twitter, appropriate usage, while lending some oversight authority to our Web 2.0 Working Group (cross-departmental collection of Web 2.0 geeks). Our county could probably fieldRead… Read more »
Hi all, Starting next week, I’ll be writing a new blog for NextGov.com called Wired Workplace. I’ll be focusing on workplace issues of particular relevance to employees who work in the federal information technology arena. Those issues will include the generational divide, use of collaborative technologies, training issues, pay and benefits and recruitment and retentionRead… Read more »
Following the enormously successful second BarcampUKGovweb, held at the Ministry of Justice in January, digital enabler Dave Briggs got to organising our first localgovcamp. LocalGovCamp is an event for local government folk that will take place on Saturday 20 June at the Fazeley Studios in Birmingham. This blog is the main source of information aboutRead… Read more »
There’s always a lesson to learn in a project failure. And this time, it involves RetireEZ, the Office of Personnel Management’s project that would give potential government retirees the tools to figure out their pensions. OPM said it was too tough to accomplish and has gone back to the paper-based drawing board to figure outRead… Read more »
Have any of you actually completed a project or a task in your life?
Originally published here I’m going to take a break from coding to try something new. I blogged about the OOOG Rating system I’d come up with earlier and I thought I would take it for a test drive against a real live project. For this first OOOG Rating exercise I thought I would pick onRead… Read more »
Colleagues, I have training positions announced for positions in Irvine, California and Jacksonville, Florida One is a two-year term with option to renew Grade 13 Training Specialist position in JAX. Two are two-year term training technician positions in Irvine and in JAX. I know you all have extensive networks of former Feds and others whoRead… Read more »
The $789 billion stimulus package dictates spending in specific areas to improve our highways, our electrical grid, and our healthcare system, just to name a few. Almost every aspect will involve an investment in technology. Join us on June 4th to explore how contract vehicles can be used to maximize opportunities. It’s a team effortRead… Read more »
I wanted to be there and got some tweets from you Robin. How was it? Do you have time to blog your thoughts? sheesh, I have rants galore that I need to move over here.