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Acquisition, Career, Human Resources, Leadership, Miscellaneous

Statement Of MEP CEO Chris Taylor To The Commission On Wartime Contracting

Available at http://www.missionep.com/news/press-release?id=21 Chairman Thibault, Chairman Shays, distinguished members of the Commission: I am honored to have the opportunity to represent Mission Essential Personnel, LLC (“MEP”) before you today. Our entire company appreciates the Commission’s hard work in reviewing U.S. Government contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I look forward to today’s specific discussion ofRead… Read more »

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July 27 Webcast: Kotamraju on The Tension between User-centered Design and E-government Services

Professor Nalini Kotamraju of the University of Twente Department of Technical and Professional Communication will give a presentation entitled The Tension between User-centered Design and E-government Services on 27 July 2010 at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time, at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The presentation will beRead… Read more »

Leadership, Miscellaneous, Tech

Gov 2.0 Radio Hot Links – July 27, 2010

Very soon, G2R gets its own GovLoop profile 😉Steve Radick: What Can the Government Learn from a $100,000 Salt & Pepper Shaker?Kim Patrick Kozba: Late Bloomers and the Evolution of ‘Social’Morgen Peers: Getting Down Under(neath) Gov 2.0Nick Judd: The Challenge of Tech for Civic GroupsJohn Ohab: Open Innovation in the Science and Technology CommunityBob Gourley:Read… Read more »

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The Rudest Question: “How Much Do You Make?”

******************************************** Not yet a member? Join GovLoop! ******************************************** Let’s say you and I are at a party. We ask the typical questions: “Where are you from?” “What do you do?” “How much do you make?” Oh, wait. We’re not supposed to ask that last question in polite company. So why are we setting up expectationsRead… Read more »

Career, Leadership, Miscellaneous, Project Management, Tech

Mind the Gap: How Innovative Partnerships Can Help Fill the Funding Gap

In my introductory posting in the “jennovation” series for Govloop and Phase One Consulting Group’s Transformation in the Federal Sector Blog, I introduced you to an innovative platform known as the Department of Education’s Innovation Portal. This week I want to describe a little more about how that portal, in combination with data.ed.gov and theRead… Read more »

Analytics, Communications, Tech

Social Media: Taking Stock in Your Government

Much of the hand-wringing in government social media practice – or more so, the decision-making behind whether to have a government social media practice – centers on return on investment, or even “return on engagement.” Does it work, and how do we measure whether it works? From measuring retweets, to numbers of fans, unique blogRead… Read more »

Communications, Tech

Weekly Research and Best Practices

Research 1. Digital Economy Rankings 2010 (06/2010) Economist’s annual benchmarking study of the digital development of seventy countries. Study finds evidence that the digital divide is narrowing and that in some cases; developing countries are adopting innovative technologies faster than developed countries. http://graphics.eiu.com/upload/EIU_Digital_economy_rankings_2010_FINAL_WEB.pdf 2. Australian Government’s Draft Social Media Handbook (July 2010) – This “unofficial”Read… Read more »