STOCK Act ruffles the SES, The Secret Sauce to Presidential Leadership, the Public Libraries Plight by GovLoop Insights We have a good program for you today Tuesday April 10, 2012. The STOCK Act…this is the law signed by President Obama last week. Did you know it has some real implications for federal senior executives? We’llRead… Read more »
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Is Gainesville the Silicon Valley of the Southeast?
Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – At the University of Florida – perhaps best known for its championship Gators football teams – innovation isn’t the first thing on people’s minds. But that football team famously invented what you now know as Gatorade. And now they’re building Innovation Square, which they hope spearheads their town of GainesvilleRead… Read more »
Datameer provides end-user focused BI solutions for big data analytics
Datameer provides a big data solution that focuses on perhaps the most important niche in this growing domain, the end-user. Here is an introduction from their website: Datameer leverages the scalability, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of Apache Hadoop to deliver an end-user focused analytics platform for big data. Datameer overcomes Hadoop’s complexity and lack of toolsRead… Read more »
Winner! The State Department’s Tag Challenge crowns the Kings of Social Media Sleuthing
Using social media to track down bad guys. We told you about the TAG Challenge a few weeks ago. It was made possible by a State Department grant. The challenge essentially took the concept of tag that we all played as kids. The premise is simple: Teams worked to track down five jewel thieves fromRead… Read more »
Can Twitter track diseases?
Can twitter be Twitter be used to track illnesses? Possibly. Illnesses usually hit in waves. Think of your kids’ preschool class or your office when a cold hits. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response is trying to track these illness breakouts and they’re using a challenge to make it happen. DianaRead… Read more »
Social Media CAN help Catch Crooks, Using Twitter to Track Diseases and Women in Technology
Social Media CAN help Catch Crooks, Using Twitter to Track Diseases and Women in Technology by GovLoop Insights On today’s program Monday April 9th, 2012: Using social media to track down bad guys… We told you about the TAG Challenge a few weeks ago. It was made possible by a State Department grant. The challengeRead… Read more »
The Government Man Discusses the GSA Scandal
I am sure that I will annoy more than a few people with my take on the matter. Most of my prior posts were intended as fun items, and were based on the book I wrote about my experiences in my 38 years with GSA. This post, however, is quite serious because things are gettingRead… Read more »
Big Data Showcase: Establishing the Infrastructure
After learning about the great uses and potential of Big Data in government and hearing about the leading analytics solutions turning that data into intelligence at Carahsoft’s Government Big Data Forum, industry leaders presented a panel on the infrastructure that makes all of this possible. Storing, accessing, and working with massive amounts of complex dataRead… Read more »
Outraged by the GSA spending scandal? Insights from a former GSA Commissioner
The DorobekINSIDER Issue of the Week: The Washington Post has declared that GSA clearly had the worst week in Washington. This week, GSA administrator Martha Johnson resigned amid allegations of excessive spending at a conference. GSA Inspector General Brian Miller issued a report detailing contracting irregularities and excessive spending after a Las Vegas conference. TheRead… Read more »
Weekly Round-up: April 06, 2012
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Users and Mobility. Alice Lipowicz has two articles up on FCW about mobility, one outlining how the FAA asked its employees how they would use mobile tech on the job, the other covering Anil Karmel’s FOSE keynote (and other events) that showed the government is trying to think more about the mobile infrastructureRead… Read more »