WATCH THE VIDEO PROFILE HERE Arguably, no other group of government employees has as much impact on your daily life as the forecasters, scientists and technicians of the National Weather Service. Emergency medical and management personnel; city, county and state governments, and local media all make use of the Weather Service’s research and monitoring. TheirRead… Read more »
Good morning. It’s your Monday morning dose of TSP Talk. Stocks dropped about 1% again on Friday and it was quite a wild day. The Dow was down over 200-points at one point, came all the way back within 20 points of break even, before closing down 100-points. Volume was quite high. You have toRead… Read more »
Alvin Toffler’s prophesy: “The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” From the Harvard Business blog: http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/nayar/2009/02/learn-unlearn-and-relearn.html A Time for Flexible, Positive Leaders 3:31 PM Friday February 20, 2009 As the world looks back to look ahead, nothing could ringRead… Read more »
Yes, from UK but IMO has a great deal of relevance for ANY government entity wishing to go to the next level regarding involvement http://poit.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/poit/ From the Executive Summary: The Taskforce’s recommendations affect the things people do with the broadband networks that are the major focus of Digital Britian. This report is about improving DigitalRead… Read more »
AND Perhaps and invite to an Event! http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/02/23/drapeau-rise-of-goverati.aspx Drapeau: The rise of the goverati Lately, there has been a lot of buzz about social media technologies in Washington. Web 2.0 technologies such as WordPress, Twitter and Qik are taking communications and personal interactions into new realms. But one local trend in the field of socialRead… Read more »
VERY GOOD (IMO) blog posting which although rather basic needs a whole lot more distribution… http://mashable.com/2009/02/22/social-media-conflict/ HOW TO: Deal With Social Media Conflict February 22, 2009 – 12:00 pm PDT – by Sharlyn Lauby No matter how knowledgeable you are and how much research you do, there will come a time when someone disagrees withRead… Read more »
Following is the text of a speech I gave at the closing of the 22d Annual Black Management Association Conference at Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, on Feb. 21, 2009. LEADERSHIP IN THE GLOBAL WORLD Today, as never before, we need enlightened, effective leadership. We need leadership that is focused on recognizingRead… Read more »
Last summer, the good folks at webcontent.gov invited me to write up some info about microblogging. Since I’d recently started using Twitter, I was able to write some, and a few other folks we knew added info about other services. I then made some changes in December. However, since I don’t look at the pageRead… Read more »
I’ve very happy to announce that we’ve firmed up deets for the Tri-Valley’s first “Citizen 2.0″ training (East San Francisco Bay Area, CA), to be held at the end of March in Dublin. This is very important to me, because the main reason I do this blog is to spread the word about how busyRead… Read more »
This week I had an opportunity to speak with Chris Dorobek, well-known host of Federal News Radio. It was an important discussion because, like many, I have been reflecting mightily about how and whether the commitment to a more participative government will succeed, and if so, in what form. Though historic, the opportunity is fragile.Read… Read more »