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June 16, 2010
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Social Media Soirée
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| Tomorrow morning: Hear three top women leaders share personal stories about their challenges and triumphs: Katharine Weymouth, Michelle Rhee, and Katherine Bradley. As always, sky-high quality, bargain prices. Last chance to SIGN UP! |
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| Last night, went 2 NVTC Social Media Awards at K St Lounge w 100 others. Took pics. 8 burritos. Wrote lead in less than 140 characters. |
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| ClearedJobs.net’s Kathleen Smith, iStrategyLabs CEO Peter Corbett, and Connelly Works’ Kristin Graybill. We’re not comparing Kathleen to Susan Lucci, but she was up for three awards last night and left without any hardware. There's always next year. Peter is in the middle of Digital Capital Week and recommends everyone check out the Digital Garage event Friday and Saturday at UMC on Mass Ave, including a party Saturday night. |
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| You know who rocks Facebook? These dudes from the State Department: Mark Betka and Tim Receveur with Welz & Weisel's Evan Weisel. State's Facebook page includes pictures from around the globe as well as YouTube videos and diplomat blogs, not to mention Secretary Clinton's travel schedule. Other winners included: Shady Grove Eye & Vision Care (best use of Twitter); Army Contracting Command (best use of LinkedIn); Nuestar (best use of viral videos); and Arlington County Government (best integrated social media campaign). Worth noting: Evan just completed an Ironman triathalon in Utah. |
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| Strategic Communications Group’s Chris Parente and Ryan Schradin with Tandberg’s Meredith Lawrence, who took home the award for best corporate blog. Her project, “Breaking Down The Walls” is a social media portal for Tandberg’s public sector customers to interact with the company—a nice thing since the company just officially merged with Cisco. |
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| CSC Wins Task Order |
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| News this morning from mega-contractor CSC, which announced it won a $135 million task order to provide services to support aircraft carriers for the Navy. (Call us when they Navy puts in an order for those duck tour boats.) The task order falls under an IDIQ that CSC originally won in '04 and has a one-year base contract with four one-year options. |
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| THE NEXT BUBBLE? |
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| There’s some good news in the next few years for jobs in the DC area, prominent speakers told our Bisnow Breakfast & Schmooze this morning at the Reagan Building, but former Rep. Tom Davis, now with Deloitte, warns that unless huge government structural spending issues are addressed, at some point “we may be flying into a mountain.” He says government could be the next bubble, following dotcoms and real estate, both at the federal and state levels, especially the latter where many federal obligations have been unloaded. |
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| George Mason’s Steve Fuller gave a tour d’horizon about federal growth from 1800, when the federal government had 137 civilian employees, to now when he said we have the highest percentage of Federal jobs in the DC area (12.8%) than we’ve ever had. He says procurement has passed the federal payroll as the source of dollars and that it’s the key driver now of spending growth in the region. |
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| A couple interesting side notes: US Buildings Commish Bob Peck implied he finds appealing the suggestion by some that the Old Post Office Pavilion (which we snapped here when we left the Reagan Building) should become a hotel. He says he knows that would be a laborious process, but he pointed out that the former International Trade Commission Building in Penn Quarter had been successfully converted to Hotel Monaco. He also mentioned that last week GSA appointed Eleni Reed as Chief Greening Officer, a former director of sustainability strategies at Cushman & Wakefield, who will be in charge of helping eliminate the carbon footprint of 9000 federal buildings. He said GSA sees itself now as a green proving ground and is actively soliciting ideas on sustainability. |
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