The featured Shiftboard community member of the week is one of the newest, the Montclair Film Festival (MFF) from Montclair, NJ! MFF has played host to a number of events in the last year including Kidz Shortz (A short film competition for children within the community), the MFF Academy Awards Party as well as A [...]
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The Metro subway ride from DC Public Schools to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center (DCCC) was slick, excepting only that the fare system is a little too complex. I ride the bus in 4 days a week at home, as does most of the Shiftboard crew. So I take a critical look at other city’s public [...]
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From the Treasury meeting, I did a rushed cab ride over to the headquarters building of DC Public Schools (DCPS) in the northeast section of the city. We have been working jointly with a survey and data collection partner, WorldAPP, to facilitate the enhanced process DCPS is implementing to evaluate nearly 8,000 new teacher and [...]
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How many of you out there read the paper and shake your head at what is going on in Washington, DC? Evidently a small victory (very small) may be scored this week as it appears that both parties will agree to an extension of 2 weeks so the federal government doesn’t shut down. So it [...]
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Staffing a venue is tough. There are so many different jobs that need to be filled, qualifications that need to be met, union rules (deep breath), seasonality, and not to mention a less-than-regularly repeating scheduling. Getting organized and staying connected are two huge challenges that a venue manager faces. I recently read a Venue Insider [...]
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A few weeks ago, good ‘ol Punxsutawny Phil predicted an early spring in 2011. The Shiftboard offices are in Seattle, where we are skeptical about the weather (still hopeful) however thrilled about the thought of spring only a few weeks away. Why? Because spring is when many events, large and small start to rev up [...]
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We’ve spent the month of January blogging about how the workforce is changing. You can read about it anywhere but the fact is nearly every American has either experienced first hand or knows people whose lives and careers have significantly changed in the past few years due to the poor economy. My generation grew up [...]
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As the end of the first month of 2011 winds down I can’t help but wonder how many of those New Years resolutions have really kept up. I know that my resolution to workout everyday, no excuses, went out the door oh…around January 5th. But here’s the problem with resolutions like that, they may make [...]
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I am certain that all of you out there have experienced first-hand some aspect of enabling flexibility to hire or retain key team members in your organization. More employees are telecommuting at least 1-2 days to avoid additional hours each week wasted in traffic. Parents are bending work hours around after-school schedules. Many folks are [...]
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I just read a fascinating New York Times article, “Working (Part-Time) In The 21st Century”, about how part-time workers are becoming a standard part of the economy in the Netherlands. All of those Dutch trends are also happening here in the States. Our economy is just a much bigger ship that takes longer to turn, [...]
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