Please read, Get Rid of Government! (But Then What?) before reading below… I believe the most important thing to remember is history. Here are a few quotes that I have memorized for the advancement of my own wisdom that may help put this discussion in perspective: -The farther backward you look, the farther forward youRead… Read more »
For as long as I can remember I have loved creative writing. I loved it because I knew that anything was possible. You can develop any character, create any setting, lead the characters down any path, and choose any number of events to unfold. You are permitted to develop your own rules outside of theRead… Read more »
Local governments look to the cloud, Corpus Christi goes the open source route, with a twist, the Commerce Department wants your opinion and financial fraud victims have a new resource, all in this week’s version of the Rock Creek Roundup. –Saving resources, having access to advanced features and functionality, and reliable availability and uptime wereRead… Read more »
My “deadwood” column on Monday about removing poor performers from their government jobs received lots of feedback and comments, with readers offering their own advice — and frustrations — on the topic. Some readers wrote that government leaders do not deal with poor performers in part because the system is too hard to navigate. IRead… Read more »
“In these tough economic times, business decisions aren’t made in a vacuum. Plenty of outside considerations have an impact on the implementation of any technical solutions. Nowhere is this truer than in a government environment.“Richard Blum, Virtualization for Government, 2010 Understanding the “ins and outs” of server virtualization in a government environment can be difficultRead… Read more »
My 5-year-old daughter, when working on a puzzle, knows to glance at the whole picture first, before starting to assemble the pieces. She is up to 30-piece puzzles now, which have gotten quite complex. So, her process is to study the picture, and then find a corner piece to which she then starts adding pieces.Read… Read more »
As I noted in yesterday’s post about the power of Social Support Communities, I recently chatted with Todd Sierer, Product Manager for LabVIEW, about their Social Support Community (SSC) efforts. I also, however, discussed their recent efforts with customer co-creation leveraging the ideation platform from Lithium Technologies. For those of you who are unsure ofRead… Read more »
I need to know if any Retired Veterans working for the Federal Service currently are recognized with a Lenght of Service Award from their Agencies that include ALL their retired Military time plus the time they have spent working for the Federal Government with any Agency. Thanks.
Originally posted by Craig Thomler at the eGov AU blog. One of the trends with Government 2.0 is for jurisdictions to make more of their information available online in more readily accessible, machine readable and useful forms. We’ve seen the rise of data.gov, data.gov.uk and a host of open data sites for nations and statesRead… Read more »
A new investigation by Securities and Exchange Commission watchdogs finds that dozens of agency employees used government computers to look at explicit images in the last five years, the AP scoops. The SEC inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at the images and said 31 of those occurred in the 2 1/2 yearsRead… Read more »