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  • Waging A War For Talent
  • The Problem with Offshoring IT

    Over the past 15 years or so, there has been a continued push, until recently, to cut information technology costs, especially in software development, to the bare bones through offshoring – the practice of shifting labor-intensive work to countries where very few, if any, minimum wage standards exist and average income per capita is a…

  • Here at Netizen, we’ve blogged a lot over the past year about the value veterans bring to the table for any startup. We are proudly veteran owned and have a staff comprised of incredibly dedicated, talented employees of which over 80% are veterans of various branches, occupational specialties, ages and backgrounds. It is this aspect…

  • Originally posted on digiphile: Some issues trigger a deeper response than others within communities. In the technology world, the education, opportunities and inclusion of women holds unusual resonance. In the U.S., as Nick Kristof wrote, “schoolgirls are leaving boys behind in the dust.” After graduation, the narrative evolves further. As Claire Cain Miller wrote in…

  • Originally posted on Government Sales Insider: by Tomas O’Keefe, Senior Analyst Some recent developments suggest that the Department of Veterans Affairs is starting to get organized and introducing more advanced analytics capabilities into its environment. One of the new tools being introduced into the VA environment is a program called Joint Legacy Viewer, nicknamed Janus.…

  • Are the hackers winning? 2014 is shaping up as a record year in security breaches
  • Sales today is not what it was twenty or even ten years ago. Organizations have become leery of the cold call (or email) and direct mailing often goes direct-to-landfill without so much as a cursory glance. A couple decades ago, and still in many places today, sales was all about volume. Business development people would…

  • We live on the cusp of an era which could be booming with troves of freely available data and other resources, created and curated lovingly by technical experts of all types, and made easily accessible through a web browser or mobile device. We need an Open Source and Open Data revolution in government to make this a reality,…

  • Add Value, Not Complexity

    Very often IT professionals have to pick up where many others have left off. All things started somewhere, but very few of us actually get to experience the ground floor and understand the mentality during the time a system was first conceived and created, especially in large organizations. What started off as a novel idea or approach…