Found Art
If your work is your muse, check out this call for submissions from Barrelhouse. I was thinking about submitting some haiku. For example: A meeting expands To fill the time available. Winter. My office.
Gov’t 2.0 is a set of ideals. Web 2.0 is a set of tools
I keep hearing people confuse “gov’t 2.0” and “web 2.0.” The gov’t using a web 2.0 tool isn’t gov’t 2.0. It might be a sign gov’t 2.0 is taking hold, and it might be an example of the right approach, but it’s not the actual thing itself. Here’s how I think of it. Gov’t 2.0Read… Read more »
Federal Eye: When Will We Get Inside Lady Liberty’s Head?
In what would be a reversal of current policy, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar seemed to all but reopen the Statue of Liberty’s crown to public access today, but said his department would wait for the results of a feasibility study due in April before taking action. “As a U.S. senator and now as secretary ofRead… Read more »
Fascinating example of crowdsourcing
An amazingly cool example of leveraging cell phones and paying the rural poor for work. Check out: http://www.technologyreview.com/business/21983/?a=f and http://txteagle.com/ So who’s got a bright idea on how to do something like this of use for the feds!
Annoucements 2.0
At EPA, we have a newly confirmed Administrator-designate, Lisa Jackson. I look forward to working with her team. Our first effort on her behalf was posting her post-confirmation statement and a memo to employees in multiple places: EPA home page, in a banner at the top, in English and Spanish our Facebook page Twitter TheRead… Read more »
Acting Directors Everywhere
Since I wrote this morning, we’ve heard about a slew of other acting appointments. Read up on them here and here.
Federal Connections – Inauguration Insight
I set my alarm for 3:30 am so that I would make it on the first subway train out of Virginia, into DC. I had signed up as an Inauguration Volunteer – one of those people wearing the little red caps – and had to be at the foot of the Washington monument by 5Read… Read more »
SOA is Dead, Will it Become a Zombie?
I came to my own realization that SOA, as an industry term, was on its way out last summer. As a concept, it’s wonderful and some people have accomplished great things by following the SOA paradigm. I found it interesting that Anne Thomas Manes, an industry thought leader in SOA, would be presenting a “SOARead… Read more »
Courage in the Corridors
In the coming months, I’ll be posting a series of columns about public sector leadership that are from my web site GovLeaders.org. This first one, by Ray Blunt, is about combatting the culture of fear that exists in too many workplace. Your comments are most welcome! – Don By Ray Blunt Before Mel Gibson caughtRead… Read more »
New Acting Director at OPM
I’m waiting for answers on why he did this, but apparently President Obama has appointed an acting Office of Personnel Management director, Kathie Ann Whipple, previously the agency’s deputy general counsel. A couple of things strike me as strange about this….