Weekly Round-up: July 13, 2012

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  • Psst! NIST on PIV.  FedScoop reports that "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the second draft version of its updated security standard for identity credentials in personal identity verification cards, also known as PIV cards.  The document. . . is now open for public comment"
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Leading eDiplomacy at State: Conversation with Richard Boly

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How is eDiplomacy moving State from a culture of need to know toward a culture of a need to share?

Continuity and Collaboration to Improve Performance: The Center for The Business of Government Moves Forward

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For the last 14 years, the IBM Center for The Business of Government has implemented a mission of bringing external research and leadership perspectives to causes and potential solutions for hard problems facing the public sector.  With the retirement of Jonathan Breul after his very successful tenure as the Center’s Executive Director – Jonathan’s career and major information on government management are eloquently documented by Senior Fellow (and leader of many Center activities) John Kamensky’s rec

Weekly Round-up: July 06, 2012

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Using Consultations to Make Informed Decisions

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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) works for Congress and is a big proponent of performance-informed decision making.  So they’ve written a practical report on how Congress can effectively use performance information produced by federal agencies to make better decisions.  And they’ve illustrated the report with three examples of where congressional committees, over a period of years, used performance information to guide key decisions in diverse areas such as immigration, HIV/AIDs, and improper payments.

Social Media for Public Participation: Step 2 - Consult

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Though informing is the first rung in the public participation ladder, it is the second step, consulting, that two—way communication and the promises it entails become paramount.

Standing Above the Rest

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where he has left a lasting mark.

I’ve worked with Jonathan directly or indirectly over the past 30 years.  His retirement is a good inflection point from which to look back at what he has contributed during the course of his career of public service as well as his role as executive director of the IBM Center for The Business of Government.

Weekly Round-up: June 29, 2012

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Social Media for Public Participation: Step 1 - Inform

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There are many roles for social media within government agencies.

Joshua Joseph of the Partnership for Public Service is spearheading research into one area: improving operations.  We had a lively, discursive conversation yesterday not only about how social media can be used at various points in an agency’s project life-cycle, but about how the Partnership can use social media in the creation of the report itself.

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