NY Times Article on Datacenters Misses Huge Points – #gov20 It almost seems like piling on to attack the NY Times assessment of datacenters and their impact on society at this point. When Forbes, InformationWeek, GigaOM, Wired and tons of other publications point out the weakness in the Times article, why add fuel to theRead… Read more »
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CIA Releases Its Maps, DHS Secretary Doesn’t Use Email, and More
By AlexOlesker Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted to avoiding most online services including email, commenting that “Some would call me a Luddite.” More here. Of 27 government agencies reviewed by the Government Accountability Office, only 11 had fully or partially established metrics for assessing theirRead… Read more »
Tackling cybersecurity issues plus your Weekend Reads!
Welcome to GovLoop Insights Issue of the Week with Chris Dorobek… where each week, our goal is to find an issue — a person — an idea — then helped define the past 7-days… and we work to find an issue that will also will have an impact on the days, weeks and months ahead.Read… Read more »
Scholarships still available for 2012 NCDD conference in Seattle!
Due to the generosity of the NCDD community during our summer fund drive, we still have some scholarship funds available to help people attend next month’s National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation in Seattle. We’re particularly interested in helping people who are traditionally underrepresented in our field to attend: young people, people of color, conservativesRead… Read more »
Leadership by Asking Compelling Questions – How do you Heal a Community?
Here’s a post from one of our local Community Partners for the 2012 NCDD conference, the Center for Ethical Leadership… At the Center for Ethical Leadership, we often talk about “Leadership by asking compelling questions.” When we work in communities to bring different people together and build their collective leadership capacity to address critical issues,Read… Read more »
Totally civically cool
The following post contains: swearing, passion, grenade throwing and fire. You have been warned. Yesterday, while out smoking, someone said ‘it doesn’t sit well with my civic heart’ and thumped their chest. They weren’t wearing a suit. As it happens, they were wearing jeans and trainers. But they own a suit. Do a quite aRead… Read more »
Another Postal Service Default? DorobekINSIDER 7 Stories
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: 10 easy steps to creating a quality government mobile app. Inside tips from Agilex’s CIO Tim Hoechst. Click here for the full recap. One of the more worrisome aspects of sequestration has been the lack of transparency in how these massive, across the board cuts will impact projects and programs throughoutRead… Read more »
Five amazing pre-conference activities to choose from
We’ve been encouraging NCDD Seattle attendees to self-organize activities the day before the conference — and I’m excited to share with you what’s being offered so far. 9:30 am to noon: Community Weaving workshop: Action planning session to better outcomes 1:30 to 5:30 pm: Method Mapping with the Group Works Card Deck training 4:00 toRead… Read more »
AFGE Officers, Members and Staff Attend the Pride at Work Convention in Cleveland
AFGE was proud to be one of 18 unions that attended the Pride at Work Triennial Convention in Cleveland, Ohio last week. Pride at Work is an AFL-CIO constituency group that gives a voice to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community within the labor movement. The 16 AFGE members who attended the conventionRead… Read more »
A look at the Apple A6 Chipset, BB10 and more
By RyanKamauff Here’s yesterday’s top tech news and updates iFixit did their teardown of the A6 chipset and Surprise! (it’s made by Samsung) – the Apple A6 was found to have dual custom 1GHz cores running ARMv7 instructions. As well they found 1GB of DDR2 RAM (the same RAM is found in the Droid RAZRRead… Read more »