The Hispanic Population in America is on the rise. The overall growth in the U.S. States of Hispanics (or Latinos) was 15,171,776 from the 2000 to 2010 Census (U.S. Census Bureau, only U.S. States). But the growth isn’t just happening where you might think it is. Take a look at this map. It shows theRead… Read more »
For the past couple years when I conducted training for agencies on the use of social media in government, I cited the GovGab Blog as one of the benchmarks for government blogs. With recent changes, I just can’t do that anymore (sorry to my friends at GSA – still love you all ;-). In fact,Read… Read more »
Q1 LDA REPORT REMINDER. Courtesy of the Office of the Clerk here. “The first quarter report is due Wednesday, April 20, 2011, covering January 1, 2011 through March 31, 2011.” “GOVERNMENT ETHICS LAW IN NORTH CAROLINA” BLOG. Are you dealing with North Carolina issues or just interested in a new perspective on ethics laws? CheckRead… Read more »
The Australian Government has released a Draft 2011 ICT Strategic Vision for comment. The document is available in PDF, DOC and RTF formats. Unfortunately the document is not in an efficient and easy to read format. Here is a web conversion of the DOC version of the document (without the images): <!– This file wasRead… Read more »
The Australian Government has released a Draft 2011 ICT Strategic Vision for comment. The document is available in PDF, DOC and RTF formats. Unfortunately the document is not in an efficient and easy to read format. Here is a web conversion of the DOC version of the document (without the images): <!– This file wasRead… Read more »
Crucial Point LLC subsidiary CTOlabs.com has just published the results of a study on the impact of data growth in government. To download your copy see: http://www.carahsoft.com/dedupesurvey From the press release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/04/prweb5243224.htm Data Growth and Virtualization Mandate New Approach to Federal Storage Management Survey Finds Data Deduplication Aids in Managing Data Growth in Federal AgenciesRead… Read more »
The Australian Government has released a Draft 2011 ICT Strategic Vision for comment. The document is available in PDF, DOC and RTF formats. Unfortunately AGIMO showed a lack of vision by no0t supplying the document in an efficient and easy top read web format. Assuming the vision follows this approach, government IT will be threeRead… Read more »
I have to wonder what good cutting 100 billion in spending on people and programs will do when government keeps digging the hole deeper with 30 year treasury auctions? In March gov. auctioned off over 12 billion dollars in 30 year treasury bonds. It is interest that we will owe someone else for 30 years.Read… Read more »
Human Resource Specialists are not specialists in Information Technology. Yet, today HR has a difficult time recruiting, engaging with employees, providing benefits, conducting training or capturing performance feedback without the intervention of technology. In fact, without technology, I can emphatically say that these functions are impossible. Why? Because heightened expectations for anywhere, anytime access toRead… Read more »
9:30pm last night USDA launched their Department-wide website redesign. From the beginning, they set out to tackle quite the challenge: Here’s what they faced: Do completely in-house working with a limited budget/resources Design an easy to navigate homepage to get citizens to the right place, and on their way effectively and efficiently Coordinate with 29Read… Read more »