(Note: This blog comes from DLT Solutions CTO Van Ristau and The DLT Blog) The adaptive nature of threats to information security has proven to be one of the greatest challenges to personal, business, and government adoption of computing in general, and communication of digital information over the public Internet, in particular. Today we areRead… Read more »
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Member of the Week – Savi Swick
I had the opportunity to speak with Savi Swick who works for the Health and Human Services Agency for the County of San Diego. She is deeply engaged in many county initiatives to better serve the community. I appreciate the time she took to discuss her role and ambitions. Thank you Savi! 1. What isRead… Read more »
TSP Talk – Buy the Dip?
Weekly TSP Wrap-up from TSP Talk Looking for a buyable pullback The markets were on a bit of a roller coaster ride last week as we saw everything from the healthcare bill getting passed, to ongoing bailout talks for Greece, and a suspicious sinking of a South Korean naval ship, all affecting the direction ofRead… Read more »
Career Disruption Stress or Surviving “The Jack Benny Dilemma”: When It Really Is “Your Money or Your Life”
This week I was the keynote speaker at the Forty Plus annual dinner (www.40plus-dc.org/), a volunteer-based, Washington, DC, career transition/support group. In general, members are white collar types, e.g., federal employees, managers, IT professionals, academics, even some entrepreneurs, who are “in between jobs.” With only 20 minutes of speaking time, my subject was definitely apt,Read… Read more »
GovLoop Advisory Board #2 – Bill Bott
As we mentioned yesterday, we are launching a GovLoop Advisory Board to help us make GovLoop more awesome. More info yesterday First up yesterday was GL Board Member Craig Newmark Up on Day 2 is: Bill Bott, Former Deputy CIO, State of Missouri GovLoop Profile Why Government… I believe that at it’s core the workRead… Read more »
A new kind of Council Web Strategy
You should know that the local authority web manager has a pretty hard job and is often stuck in between a rock and a hard place. Often with no budget, no resources, but yet still required to manage a service delivery platform, communications platform and a citizen engagement channel. How do i know this, wellRead… Read more »
On My Transformation from Social Worker to Public Servant
I read somewhere that the (median) average age of entry into the Canadian federal public service is 34 years old. That fits me reasonably well; this is my second career. For my first 10 years of “professional” employment I was a social worker, and my speciality was child and adolescent mental health. It was theRead… Read more »
Top 10 – Social Media Tips from Southwest
Top 10 Social Media Tips from Southwest -Don’t be afraid to join the conversation -Build a strong team -Establish channels before a crisis -Set the tone for the conversation -Act Fast -Be gracious, be honest, be real -Doesn’t have to be perfect -Speak the language of your audience -Have a thick skin-Be all in Favorite
Prepared for Plano – Live blogging from Soc Media for Govt
Prepared in Plano Internal challenges-legal – establish a workable policy -PIO – empower PIO-Records – Policy for record keeping, who keeps them, how does your legal requirements overlap-Credibility/Verification – Use widgets on official site, come up with logo or name that is persona, post links to your media sites to show authenticity External Challenges -MaliciousRead… Read more »
Cornell Law.gov Workshop
Twitter tweets from the Cornell Law.gov Workshop are available at #lawgov. The goal of this invitation-only workshop — being held 22-23 March 2010 at the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School in Ithaca, New York, USA — is to begin the development of metadata standards for a proposed distributed registry and repositoryRead… Read more »