Thought I would pass this along to you Federal employees: FEHBP database raises privacy concerns By Emily Long 10/05/2010 A new Office of Personnel Management database designed to track federal employee health benefit plans could put at risk the personal information of participants, according to privacy advocates. OPM last week announced plans for a databaseRead… Read more »
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Great uses of Twitter at conferences
I had the pleasure of attending the Monitoring Social Media conference in Boston yesterday. While I was there to discuss Social CRM, I took the opportunity to listen to a number of other speakers. All of the speakers were great. However, Aafia Chaudhry, CEO, JuvoLab & Founding Partner, Noesis, did a really nice job presentingRead… Read more »
GovLaunch – OpenNY Plan
Great post by Andrew Hoppin. Cross-posted from Globehoppin Andrew Cuomo Releases OpenNY Plan Posted on October 6, 2010 by Andrew Hoppin Andrew Cuomo today released his “OpenNY” plan, part of his expanded “Clean Up Albany: Make It Work” agenda. The plan has three major components, which apparently will be instantiated through a central OpenNY website,Read… Read more »
Make Sure Your Social Media Evangelists Feel the Love
This post originally appeared on my external blog, “Social Media Strategery.” While writing my last post, I got to thinking about all of the conversations I’ve had with the talented, ambitious, entrepreneurial colleagues I’ve gotten to know over the last few years. Most of these individuals serve, in some fashion, as social media evangelists –Read… Read more »
Letting go for high performance leadership
In Gov 2.0 circles I often hear that organizational culture needs to change. If you think about that you will realize that people need to change. If you think about that you will realize that you have to change. Last year I heard the story of a public servant leader who discovered that sometimes byRead… Read more »
The Final Hoop – It’s not all in the classroom
6 years ago, I accepted a position as an instructor in the Department of Communication at Mississippi State University. It is absolutely one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life. I have been fortunate to have a University who believes in tuition remission and a department head who has been as supportiveRead… Read more »
Open data podcast
In this podcast I chat to Tim Davies of Practical Participation about open data in the UK and his research into the subject. Download the mp3 or subscribe in iTunes – or the original post with a flash audio player is here. Hope it’s useful!
10 reasons why online social media are critical to democratic governance (pt.1)
The Web has transformed and continues to transform how government serves and relates to its citizenry. With the spread of broadband internet access now in 66% of American homes according to the Pew Research Center, some futurists have predicted that without access to the web, citizens may eventually lose touch entirely with the ability toRead… Read more »
Fast-Tracking a Greener Government – Meeting those Mandates
This blog entry was originally posted on http://acronymonline.org by GovLoop member, Caron Beesley Green buildings, green transportation, green computing, in fact all things green, is a hot trend. In the public sector, “green” isn’t just the ideal – “green” is mandated. Since the Obama administration moved into the White House, green legislation and “green IT’Read… Read more »
When NOT to Take the Lead: Partnering with Academia to Solve Our Nation’s Problems
It’s been over a month since my last posting on my featured jennovation series on Govloop and the Phase One Consulting Group (POCG) Transformation in the Federal Sector Blog, but for good reason. It’s been a busy Fall season on many fronts: POCG’s Growing Open Gov and Innovation Team: POCG has recently hired two rockRead… Read more »