Why DevOps? No matter how cool an idea or feature, it may take weeks or months for your team to deploy new applications to your constituents. Many IT organizations are often siloed, and individual responsibilities and charters find it hard to work together as one functional team due to the checks and balances in place. This is also due to the disparate tools, processes, and cultural mindsets resistant to change. These perennial problems are no...

It’s that time again. Transition time. The presidential inauguration on January 20 will usher in the countless others set for the coming months. In many government offices, this means change from one administration to another or one appointee to the next. NAGC President-Elect Chris O’Neil will identify the opportunities transition time presents to career government communicators at every level: to establish themselves as trusted ad...

For your programs to function properly, you need residents and businesses to understand what you do, discover what you need them to do, and do it. Sounds easy enough—but we all know it is one of the most challenging parts of our jobs. You are competing with cute kitten photos and so much more. In this webinar, you’ll learn to understand the competition, the communications challenges embedded in your job, and the necessity of target...

Learn everything you need to know about the Americans with Disabilities Act and how it affects each stage of employment, from recruiting and hiring through termination. Complaints about violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) are at an all-time high. Verdict and settlement amounts are on the rise. Without expert guidance about how to navigate the tricky waters of disability law, employers face enormous liability risks. This top...

Whether the training you provided in 2016 was brick and mortar, virtual, live, or on-demand, performed well or lacked the results you hoped to see, it’s time to start thinking ahead to the training you want to offer in 2017 and the goals you need to meet. Join us for this on-demand webinar to learn how to make the most of your training with the complete digital learning solution for virtually any device, Adobe Connect. We’ll review...

Learn types of records that must be maintained, time frames for retention, and best practices for implementing an effective records retention policy. Obtaining a government contract or grant can be a lucrative and beneficial endeavor. However, deals between private industry and governments are intensely regulated and as such create a myriad of issues that are unique to public contract law. One of the many compliance issues faced by contractors...

Understand how to utilize social media to connect with your community and increase responsiveness and community involvement. It's more important than ever for government agencies to have a robust social media presence that can create and strengthen real connections with their communities. However, these connections - and the benefits that result from them - don't just happen without careful planning and execution. Does your government agency h...

Get up to date on recent reasonable accommodation laws in California. California employers are frequently confronted with employee requests for work-place disability accommodations and requests for leaves of absences. California and federal law continues to evolve in this area, making it difficult to ascertain the employer's duties and obligations. Courts have seen a steady increase in law-suits alleging disability discrimination and failure t...

Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud (DC) and Adobe Sign are revolutionizing the way government agencies adopt digital document processing. Closing the gaps in automated processes, Adobe Acrobat DC allows employees to create, send, sign, and track documents at any time, on almost any device. No matter what agency or department you are in, Adobe Sign helps accelerate the pace of everyday workflows by working with your existing processes and systems, li...

There’s no doubt that everywhere we go in the world today we are fully entrenched in the digital age. The federal government is feeling the effects of this change and working to keep pace. Digital-first mandates from the government are driving the public sector’s move away from paper documents and toward electronic ones. However, one major challenge of this digital transformation is keeping digital content, especially sensitive inf...