Helping Your Site Visitors Engage and Succeed Class Format: One–Day Course Instructor: Janice "Ginny" Redish, PhD, Redish & Associates, Inc Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010 Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Place: Department of Labor (DOL) Directions to DOL Fee: $200 federal, state, or local U.S. government; $300 for non–government Course Description Citizens come to government with their own goals and tasks in mind. Learn to focus yo...

GovSec and U.S. Law is the only event that provides a comprehensive approach to securing our country. The exhibits will empower you to meet with industry leaders demonstrating cutting-edge security products. You will be able to experience, first hand, the newest systems, tools and technologies protecting us from threats, preparing for all hazards and disasters, and ensuring public safety.Join your colleagues on Tuesday March 23, 2010 and Wedne...

Using Social Media to Communicate During a Crisis Class Format: One–Day Course Instructor: Shel Holtz, Holtz Communication + Technology Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Place: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Directions to FERC Fee: $200 federal, state, or local U.S. government; $300 for non–government Course Description The Internet—and, more recently, social media—have added new di...

What MeriTalk invites government and industry IT leaders to attend this full-day conference focused on Federal IT innovation – and its potential to change the fundamental performance and economics of government IT. Lean budgets are here to stay. Uncle Sam requires government to do more with less. Innovation is the only way forward. 1,000 government and industry IT thought leaders will convene to listen, learn, and teach about innovative...

Advanced Writing for the Web: Using Plain Language to Engage Citizens Class Format: One–Day Course Instructor: Leslie O'Flahavan, E–WRITE Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Place: Department of Labor (DOL) Directions to DOL Fee: $200 federal, state, or local U.S. government; $300 for non–government Course Description You can't engage people unless you communicate in plain, down–to–ear...

KEY TAKE AWAYS: Attend this conference to learn how to capture the power of social media in your organization, along with helpful tools, tips and techniques to get started, including: Developing a social media (blogging, Twitter, podcasting, wikis, social networks, etc.) strategy to drive performance-based communications Building senior management support for your social media programs Integrating social media tools into your internal and exte...

When it comes to stimulus money no one is spending like the Department of Energy. Join us December 15 for our next Federal IT Breakfast & Schmooze as we host DOE CFO Steve Isakowitz who is guiding the department’s momentous spending. And Steve’s not just a pencil pusher - as a former exec at Lockheed and Booz Allen, not to mention a Master’s in aerospace engineering from MIT, he knows the info industry wants to hear.