“Just as the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so too do the manifestations of man find nourishment in the visions of our solitary dreamers.” – Wayne Dyer, author of The Power of Intention Today’s aspiring government leaders find themselves too often facing impossible challenges with few resources available to help them. More thanRead… Read more »
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Key Features of the MAS Program’s Success
The GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program is the crown jewel of government-wide contracting programs. The MAS program provides customer agencies with access to thousands of contractors offering millions of commercial services and products. State and local governments can use the MAS program’s information technology contracts to meet their needs as well as using MASRead… Read more »
MSNBC.com’s Tea Party vs. Occupy Conversation
MSNBC.com recently assembled a collection of Tea Party and Occupy activists to talk about each group’s similarities, differences and their views about the state of the American government and how their movements are impacting civil discourse. If you’re familiar with the groups, the following discussion won’t be groundbreaking, but it’s an interesting snapshot of eachRead… Read more »
Lessons Learned from IT Scars
Last night, I attended a Women in Technology event titled The CIO/CTO Agenda 2012. Moderated by Christopher Dorobek, the six panelists’ candid and often humorous discussion covered many topics that included paths to success, current priorities, mobile communications, and vendor/contract relationships. My question to the panel wrapped-up the discussion: “Since all of you have beenRead… Read more »
Mobile Dialogue Update – Top 3 – Shared Services, BYOD, Info Assurance
Last week as we posted on GovLoop, Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel launched the call for feedback on the National Dialogue on Mobility Strategy. A week later let’s look the top 3 most popular suggestions are: –Develop a shared services catalogue –Encourage Bring Your Own Device policies(see GL discussion thread on Bring Your Own Device) –MobileRead… Read more »
Daily Dose: Justice Dept. Website Goes Down with Megaupload
After Megaupload was shut down this Thursday by Federal Authorities, anonymous hackers in turn attacked the Justice Department’s website. This is the second time in the past six months that a government website has been under significant attack. Initially officials claimed they were unaware of the attack, but by Thursday night it became clear thatRead… Read more »
Public Servants Self-Organizing for Efficiency (and sanity) – Collaborative Management Day
Most of the time, when I engage with or speak to federal public servants, they are among the most eager to find ways to work around the bureaucracy in which they find themselves. They want to make stuff happen, and ideally, to make it happen right and more quickly. This is particularly true of youngerRead… Read more »
10 Ways to Turnaround a Dysfunctional Team
Eric Jackson as a regular contributor to Forbes Magazine writes some very interesting management articles. In addition to writing for Forbes, Jackson is the Founder and Managing Member of Ironfire Capital LLC and he has completed his Ph.D. in the Management Department at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business in New York, with aRead… Read more »
Apple joins e-textbook party with iBooks, iBooks Author apps
Apple joins e-textbook party with iBooks, iBooks Author apps http://bcove.me/rmn7l58z By Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY Apple is bringing its brand-name power to the fledgling market for electronic textbooks. New York by Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president for worldwide marketing. Apple also announced iBooks Author, a free software application for Macintosh computers with customRead… Read more »
Salesforce.com as OpenGov PaaS – Digital Fuel for the 21st Century
As part 4 of our GovCloud series, we can build on the previous blog about PaaS (Platform as a Service) and highlight how one implementation option for this is Salesforce.com, via their Force.com service. * This is one of the key topics of our upcoming MaaS webinar. Salesforce.com recently declared their ambitions for the publicRead… Read more »