Wordle is a great – and free! – resource for creating word clouds. This post offers a primer for organizations and individual professionals in particular that addresses Why, Where, What, and How and shares specific Wordle tips. Additional tips, examples and applications are welcome. Most everyone knows what a word cloud or a tag cloudRead… Read more »
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Get off the bench – hiring is not a spectator sport
Hiring the right person for the right job matters more than ever in government because tight budgets are making resources scarce. So how do you hire the best and the brightest on your first try? Tim McManus is the Vice President for Leadership and Education at the Partnership for Public Service. He told Chris DorobekRead… Read more »
5 Lessons from the Solution Revolution
***Hear author Bill Eggers keynote our Government Innovators Virtual Summit on 9/10 – free RSVP **** Over the long weekend, I read Bill Eggers’ latest “The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises are Teaming Up to Solve the World’s Largest Problems.” Bill is one of the top thought-leaders in the government space soRead… Read more »
Four Ways Brands Can #Unplug
Image courtesy of Flickr user davitydave This post originally appeared in Ragan’s PR Daily. One of the world’s most connected men, Baratunde Thurston, recently took a month-long digital detox, chronicled in the July/August issue of Fast Company. Thurston had grown increasingly exhausted with trying to keep up with all the Tweets, photos, status updates, check-ins,Read… Read more »
Four Ways Your Organization Can #Unplug
This post originally appeared in Ragan’s PR Daily. One of the world’s most connected men, Baratunde Thurston, recently took a month-long digital detox, chronicled in the July/August issue of Fast Company. Thurston had grown increasingly exhausted with trying to keep up with all the Tweets, photos, status updates, check-ins, chats, and texts. He realized hisRead… Read more »
GovLoop Research Digest: 3 Government Focused Customer Service Resources
***Want more tips on customer service? Join us at the Data-Driven Citizen Engagement session next Tuesday, 9/10 at our GovLoop Virtual Innovators Summit – free rsvp**** There are some remarkable apps in the private sector changing the way customer service is being delivered. You can order a pizza from your phone, track delivery progress, payRead… Read more »
Status check – Is the fed gov actually teleworking?
The number of people teleworking in the federal government is a bit murky. The reason for the unclear percentage is that agencies are struggling to report actual numbers to the Office of Personnel Management. Those were the findings of a Government Accountability report. Yvonne Jones is the Director of Strategic Issues at the GAO. SheRead… Read more »
EXTRA COVER: 21 ways a cricket club can use Twitter (with lessons for organisations)
Cricket? That’s pints of beer, the smack of leather on willow English summer days, isn’t it? When I played for a 4th team in the North Staffs League it was also vicious grudge matches, a batsman who could only score fours and sixes and cows at cow corner. My greatest contribution? Probably to persuade theRead… Read more »
What’s the Role of the Chief Data Officer?
I recently read through a fascinating discussion on EMC’s Chuck’s Blog: Are Conditions Right For a “Chief Data Officer.” The blog derives quite a bit from an excerpt from a book, The Case for Chief Data Officer. The books authors, Peter Aiken and Michael Gorman, argue that c-level managers must be data savvy, and thatRead… Read more »
Containing an outbreak, saving lives – Plus Your Weekend Reads
Disease outbreaks can cripple communities and economies alike. Back in September 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began receiving reports from health officials in Tennessee about patients diagnosed with a rare form of meningitis. This worrisome information set off alarm bells at the CDC, which quickly launched an emergency response team led byRead… Read more »