226 Essential Social Media Definitions By Dara Fontein A lot can change in a year, especially in the world of social media. It can be difficult to keep up with all of the terms and slang used with the introduction …

Even Santa has to carefully manage risk and ensure that his contracts deliver the promised terms on time and on budget! Here is a holiday tale emphasizing the importance of having a clear and well-structured risk allocation clause, particularly for …

This December Newsletter includes lots of free tools for municipalities: Free Webinars from Juice Inc., Free Public Sector Procurement Assessment Tool from NECI (National Educational Consulting Inc.), Interesting articles and, Introduction to our newest Professional Members See our December Municipal …

It’s the age-old question, what makes a good leader?  I think we have all experienced both good leadership and poor leadership.  I have asked and been asked this question many times over the years in conversation, in workshops, in coaching …

RFP’s can be lengthy and sometimes confusing documents. The following Top 10 Rules are intended to assist in understanding RFP fundamentals, so as to increase your probability to succeed, and, even more critically, avoid disqualification. A Request for Proposal (RFP) …

Arch-Viz allows stakeholders to see or visualize architectural designs or property developments within their anticipated environment at the very early planning stages, well before the project is built. It is an elastic term ranging from simple 2D hand drawings of …

Lizard surgery, Homeland Security and Vaseline trucks. What do they all have in common? According to a study from CareerBuilder, they are among a list of outrageous reasons workers claim they have been late for work. Below are some of the …

By Jim Clemmer If you buy a little goldfish and keep it in a small bowl it will remain no bigger than a few inches long. Move that same fish to a large aquarium and it will double or triple …

Over the past few months we were out at a number of municipal conferences and events and it always surprises me to hear the number of folks who think municipalities are only able to procure goods or services via the …

As some of our members know our partners, bids&tenders invited muniSERV.ca to speak at their users’ group meeting for public sector buyers on October 13th, 2016 – and we invited Keith Strachan, of SellToPublicSector.com to co-present with us.  We asked …