AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For those who were unable to attend or watch virtually, this blog post summarizes some of the key partner highlights. In addition to the Generative AI Center of Excellence for AWS Partners , we launched the new generative AI Targeted Transformation Module (TTM). The bundles are available on AWS Marketplace.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Trust me, if we know each other, we are probably friends. If we aren’t yet, just give it time. In the words of Helen Keller, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” If you listen to the Fundraising HayDay podcast or know me some other way, you will quickly learn that I am an EXTRA extrovert.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 12, 2024

Our team comprises of book lovers who read books from all genres. This year, we decided to hold a Secret Santa book exchange and it was a lot of fun sending books to each other. As we begin 2024, we realized that we needed a list of must-read books and decided to ask for your recommendations. Tiffany H.

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Super Library Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We all jumped around excited (them in the office and me in a hotel lobby),” recalled Meghan. More than anything I am so proud that we won as a team. We had to keep it a secret for about two months. I love being surrounded by creative people, who all think differently than me,” explained Meghan. So that was challenging.”

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Super Library Marketing

APRIL 22, 2024

At an average of $2 to $3 per click, a library can potentially bring about 4,000 visitors per month to its website, mostly new people who were not necessarily thinking of a library but were searching for something. Google’s primary motivation, we believe, is to perform a social good by helping nonprofits,” says Maggie.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 29, 2023

EX Surveys When the VA measures worker experiences, “for the qualitative data, we follow the human-centered design approach,” explained Gill, who served the VA until October 2023. “We We get out there and talk to folks. We use individual interviews [and] small focus groups.”

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As part of our efforts to increase security defaults and follow the principle of secure by design, we are happy to share that a feature change initiated by Microsoft engineering will enable more logging capabilities for Purview Audit (Standard). government customers.

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Librarian.net

AUGUST 9, 2023

In New England we mostly haven’t seen the legislation issues that they’ve had other places. Familiarize yourself with the Freedom Caucus and Moms for Liberty and be very very skeptical of anyone who aligns with them or who forwards their talking points. The usual advice is still good. Write letters to the editor.

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Barrett & Greene

JANUARY 8, 2024

But I think we can learn much more from failure. We agree with his conclusions and think they apply in important ways to state and local government policy and management. One of the results was the homelessness crisis we face today. It’s a natural way of learning.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

In honour of Women’s History Month, Amazon Web Services (AWS) celebrates female leaders who inspire and empower women and girls in STEM. And this is a problem because you have to see it to be it – we need female role models to visualise ourselves succeeding. Imagine you are an observer in an operating theatre.

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 23, 2023

But whenever we see references like that, we immediately wonder, “what happened to the counties?” We became even more acutely aware of just how much counties could be the center of a pressing issue, yet still kept out of the loop when we co-authored a white paper with Don Kettl for the IBM Center for the Business of Government.

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Back some years ago, when we first started to evaluate management capacity in states, counties, and cities for the now defunct Financial World magazine we were forced by the editors and publisher to rank the entities we were evaluating from best to worst. We hated that for many reasons. 0005% of its population.

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 29, 2023

We’d probably be the subject of justifiable ridicule if we were to come out against the notion of work life balance in the public sector workforce. Yet, in recent months as we’ve chatted with a number of managers, we seem to be running across a phenomenon that – taken to its extremes – can be debilitating to their lives.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It makes it easier for us to find people who can be good communicators and also have the tech practitioner abilities.” It’s also established a program that trains people who are interested in working in IT — and the public sector. I have someone who was a long-haul trucker who’s now doing penetration testing.

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ParkTalk podcast

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In this episode, we hear from two gardeners about the joys, challenges and surprises of the 2023 gardening season at the Naperville Park District’s Garden Plots. Our guests are Priyanka, who rented a plot for the first time, and Barb, who has maintained a plot for many years and is a Master Gardener.

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Grant Consulting Services, LLC

APRIL 25, 2024

We call this step Grant Optimization. You will recall that we utilized the who, what, where, why, when, how, and who cares framework to evaluate the organization and its programs or services during the feasibility study. What Is Grant Optimization? So, what is grant optimization in relation to strategic planning?

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Policy Chats

APRIL 17, 2024

Podcast Highlights: “We do what we can to make sure that coming out of an inpatient setting, that person is prioritized, to receive the services that they need, including medication.

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

When we were first covering performance management several decades ago, this same city was known for being a leader in exactly that kind of work. We pointed this out to our source who was interested to hear the news. She told us that this was the first time her city had ever done something like this.

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CRA Today

APRIL 9, 2024

If you think about the trajectory of where we are, CRA and the CDFI fund and the way that was initiated really came about because of place-based community organizing. It’s a different dynamic, and we adopt things slowly, so we don’t always pause to say, wait. How has my world changed because of technology?”

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Super Library Marketing

APRIL 17, 2023

As it turns out, there are plenty of people who share my love of reading. But we knew that, didn’t we?) Most people who do not read books or have not read books in a while declined to participate.” We know that readers sometimes have a difficult time finding their next book. This is incredibly simple.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We are proud to announce the winners of the Annual NextGen Public Service Awards for superior public service and achievement. NextGen Public Service Award Categories and Winners Advancing Tech Pioneers This category recognizes a forward thinker who has used technology as part of their approach to transformation. The winners are in!

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

And I loved it even more when we got an award letter. They often had firsthand experience working and interacting with those who benefitted from grant awards. From that moment on, I realized that improving a city’s infrastructure improves the lives of so many, in ways we may never see. Don’t get me wrong. What is yours?

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GovLoop

JULY 14, 2023

Fit the Tools to the Team and the Task When it comes to improving and sustaining productivity, tailor apps and strategies for the people who will use them and the tasks they face. “I We had rolled out a suite of new collaboration apps, and there was a lot of confusion. What Are Good Productivity Choices?

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As we know, professional development is tremendously important. What we do remember over time is the people we interacted with and the way they taught us. And we’re especially going to remember the one great mentor who changed our way of thinking and career trajectory.

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 11, 2024

We want to be the modern-day equivalent of the Rosetta Stone (a peculiar aspiration perhaps for people instead of rocks). Only instead of making ancient script comprehensible in the modern age, we want to unlock the mysteries of the kind of writing done by people trained in academese for the rest of the world.

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Policy Chats

JANUARY 19, 2024

At our center, we focus on our region's interconnections between social well-being, the economy, and environmental sustainability. I'd like to see a shift in the narrative when we start to talk about these things. Guests: Dr. Johannes Moenius (William R.

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Super Library Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We worked together on all those pieces of library marketing that we don’t normally have time for. We identified our libraries’ strengths and weaknesses. ( We named our libraries opportunities and threats. We set SMART goals. We identified our target audiences ( hint: your audience is not everyone! ).

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Super Library Marketing

MARCH 25, 2024

We frequently collaborate with the Public Programs, Adult Education, and Exhibitions departments to develop marketing strategies specific to each team’s needs.” “I For that reason, I try to maintain working relationships with colleagues across all departments at the Newberry, even those with whom we don’t work as closely.”

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GovLoop

MARCH 27, 2024

Our NextGen Gov Virtual Training Summit line-up has keynote topics that are perfect for anyone who wants to move their career forward. We’re here to help – below is a list of our upcoming keynote sessions so you can start planning your schedule. Now the difficult part: which sessions will you join on May 15?

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

John Horton, an MIT Sloan associate professor who specializes in AI labor and online marketplace research, says the challenge is not with the technology, but with how humans interact with the technology. When we are thinking about ‘Should AI do a task?’ How highly paid are the people who perform this task?

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 25, 2024

We remember the exciting day when we bought our first IBM PC and a printer for $7,500 back in 1981. Years later, after a few computer upgrades, we heard about this thing called a gigabyte. It wasn’t so much later that we had scores and then hundreds of gigabytes on our desks. You read that number right.)

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Libraries are where we explore, wade into the unknown, and seek answers. There wasn’t a specific technical challenge we were trying to solve. IIIF works similarly to how we commonly view satellite imagery and maps. I ended up creating a codebase that was smaller than just the config file from one server we had been using.”

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A Library Writer's Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

EDITED BY: Wendy Pothier , University of New Hampshire & Ilana Stonebraker, Indiana University OVERVIEW: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), first adopted in 2012, have worked in tandem with worldwide climate concerns to alter the way we approach the environment, poverty, gender inequality, hunger and worldwide trade.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

In this post, we feature some of our top education and workforce sellers and highlight how listing on AWS Marketplace has positively impacted their business growth and goals. We view the AWS Marketplace as a core pillar of how we engage with customers,” says Ben Sangree, director of partnerships at Udemy.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Unfortunately, that’s not the reality we live in. The fiscal year 2022 Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey found that 69% of respondents reported positive perceptions of agency DEIA practices , but that still leaves almost a third of workers who didn’t. In fact, increases are already happening.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 5, 2024

The people who are incarcerated, not just in Ohio but everywhere, a lot of them are coming home,” said Jennifer Sanders, Superintendent of Schools at the ODRC’s Ohio Central School System (OCCS). But when they leave us, we should have made them better.” “It’s important for people to recognize that. The number drops to 5.6%

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Human Transit

JANUARY 5, 2023

But one thing I want to say to the growing community of people who are interested in them is that American agencies don’t deliver on these goals because this country’s high-level governance constructs don’t say they should deliver on them. That’s why, in our work, we prioritize access to opportunity instead.

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