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USAJOBS vs CBO Job Site

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Joe Flood

Too much exposure to USAJOBS has really turned me cynical. Despite news reports on the need to recruit thousands of new employees, the main federal jobs site is a usability nightmare, unfathomable to even people who work on web sites, … Continue reading →

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Why Doesn’t Government Use the Web to Organize Its Work?

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Joe Flood

I’ve been reading Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. It’s a brilliant book on the information revolution that we’re going through. He believes that this revolution is as momentous as the development of the printing press, which triggered the Reformation … Continue reading →

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Ocean.gov – A Modest Proposal

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Joe Flood

Have you ever wondered why there’s no ocean.gov? This is a valuable and easy to remember URL that the government doesn’t currently use. And it should, for we all depend on the ocean for the very air we breathe. When I … Continue reading →

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