View the entire newsletter for more articles: 2023 – NJAC County Biz – April
by William Cherry, Director Public Partnership for three+one
Public officials who are responsible for the safety and security of taxpayer funds that are entrusted to their custody can sometimes find it difficult to get a good night’s sleep—even in the best of times! That is especially true right now, given the most recent upheavals in the banking industry and financial markets.
three+one was founded by public officials and designed for public officials to provide them with the tools, knowledge, data, and co...
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Modernizing Government Networks with Aruba EdgeConnect
View the entire newsletter for more articles: 2023 – NJAC County Biz – March
by PKA Technologies, Inc.
Government agencies across the country are facing unprecedented technology challenges. Decades-old IT infrastructure often hinders efforts to support growing numbers of remote workers while also meeting increasing constituent demand for expanded online services. In a 2021 Accenture study, 75 percent of public-sector leaders agreed that outdated technology was holding them back.
Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) solutions create a path to IT modernization with flexible c...
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PSE&G Offers Energy Savings For Work An Everyday Life
View the entire newsletter for more articles: 2023 – NJAC County Biz – February
by PSE&G
PSE&G provides residential and business customers throughout the state of New Jersey with energy efficiency program offerings designed to save energy and money.
Energy efficiency is the use of less energy to perform the same task and is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to reduce energy costs, lower greenhouse gas emissions, address climate change and impact economic health (through the creation of clean energy jobs, leading to increased employment). PSE&G’s $1 billion...
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New Somerset County Preservation Plan Is First In Nation To Combine Open Space, Farmland, and History
View the entire newsletter for more articles: 2023 – NJAC County Biz – January
by Brad Fay, Chief Communications Officer for Somerset County
Somerset County thinks of itself as the “crossroads of the crossroads of the American Revolution,” based on its rich history. That’s just one reason why the county in 2022 became the first in the nation to update and then combine its historic, open space, and farmland preservation plans into a single, comprehensive plan.
Adopted by the Somerset County Planning Board in May 2022, the plan has already won two awards, from the New Jersey Planning O...
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AT&T, FEMA & Argonne National Laboratory Collaborate to Launch Climate Risk and Resilience Portal for U.S. Communities
View the entire newsletter for more articles: 2022 – NJAC County Biz – December
by Teresa Mask, AT&T Corporate Communications
New portal is aligned with the Biden Administration’s efforts to address the climate crisis and make communities across America more resilient to climate change
What’s the news? AT&T*, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) announced the launch of the Climate Risk and Resilience Portal (ClimRR), which advances access to cutting-edge science for climate projections to help...
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The Science Behind Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
View the entire newsletter for more articles: 2022 – NJAC County Biz – November
by Cameron Cushing, Intern Industry Marketing for UKG
Awareness of the need for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEI&B) initiatives has exploded in recent years, with the private sector leading the way on implementation. But how can public sector organizations adapt to be more representative of the communities that they serve? And what’s the science behind DEI&B, both in origin and impact?
The Need for DEI&B
In a new webinar, Dr. Jarik Conrad – Executive Director of The...
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Tackling Human Services Needs Together: Monmouth ACTS Brings Public and Private Sectors Together
View the entire newsletter for more articles: 2022 – NJAC County Biz – October
by Teri O'Connor, Monmouth County Administrator & NJAC President
It’s not common practice for county government and community stakeholders to come to the table to identify issues in their service network, and create and implement solutions for powerful collective impact.
But Monmouth County Government is changing the status quo.
No longer siloed, Monmouth County government departments and community organizations are working cooperatively with a simple goal: serving residents better, together.
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The Importance of a Consistent Security Policy
View the entire newsletter for more articles: 2022 – NJAC County Biz – August
by David Cumbow, Principal Solutions Architect for Palo Alto Networks
New Jersey local government agencies have technical infrastructure that spans from regular business networks, to service provider offerings, to public safety and other critical services. When greenfield projects do come along, we tend to focus on applying our security frameworks with controls that are unique to that deployment. This results in a story that we are all familiar with – nonintegrated, siloed security solutions with vario...
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The Evolution Of Electronic Bidding In New Jersey
View the entire newsletter for more articles: 2022 – NJAC County Biz – July
by Ward Zerbe, Vice President & Ozette Brown, Sr. Customer Success Manager, Infotech
When state agencies make the transition from paper bidding to electronic, it can feel like a switch is getting flipped. Everything from filing cabinets to postage stamps instantly feel like an artifact of the past. But while the benefits of e-bidding are sudden, the process of instituting it is often less so. As we look back at the previous two decades of electronic bidding in New Jersey, we see major milestones...
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African American Chamber Of Commerce Of New Jersey Shares Why DEI Is Good For Businesses And Communities
View the entire newsletter for more articles: 2022 – NJAC County Biz – June
by Ferlanda Fox Nixon, Esq., Chief of Policy & External Affairs for African American Chamber of Commerce of NJ
“For the past 15 years, the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey (AACCNJ) has sought to economically empower and sustain African-American communities through entrepreneurship and capitalistic activities within the state of New Jersey and via interaction with the National Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc.,” states John E. Harmon, Sr., IOM, the AACCNJ’s Founder, President, and CEO....
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