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Crab Theory
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog Crab theory exists everywhere even in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Government community. If you remember the DHHIG 2009 election at the NTC- team consisting of Gagnon, McKay, Broadus, and Kaldini ran against the team that formed at the last minute. Olumoya’s team won the election by close votes. Rumors are that the election […]
Wed, Dec 17 2014
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It has been one year already!
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog CFDGE readers, Please leave comments or e-mail us directly about your feelings on how the DHHIG is performing as there has been high volume of turnovers. If you want to write a blog or make a vlog, please feel free to leave one. Thanks.
Wed, Dec 17 2014
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DHHIG officers and request
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog NOTE- some photos were uploaded from DHHIG.org website Hello - As you all might know, John Olumoya resigned as Chair of the DHHIG due to personal reasons.  Now we have new officers which’s exciting and would be excellent to work with from now on.  First is Yael Agriss as the new Chair.   Next, the Vice Chair […]
Wed, Dec 17 2014
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Bankrupt concerns
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog Someone emailed us and asked why we posted a link to Maryland court records. There is a concern if someone who has declared bankruptcy in the past wins a board position in the DHHIG. As you know the DHHIG currently has no guaranteed revenue and the organization depends on the profits generated from the National [...]
Wed, May 11 2011

Crab Theory
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog Crab theory exists everywhere even in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Government community. If you remember the DHHIG 2009 election at the NTC- team consisting of Gagnon, McKay, Broadus, and Kaldini ran against the team that formed at the last minute Olumoya, Ariess, Philips, and Edwards. Olumoya�s team won the election by close votes. [...]
Wed, May 04 2011

Some Interesting Tidbits
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog Did you know that you can search individual court cases using the Maryland Court records website? The link is [link] I have found some interesting case information on some people I know, especially the bankrupt records. Additionally, some of these records can bring some information on individual characteristics. Have you noticed that DHHIG is more [...]
Sun, May 01 2011

DHHIG officers and request
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog NOTE-�some photos were uploaded from DHHIG.org website Hello - As you all might know, John Olumoya resigned as Chair of the DHHIG due to personal reasons.� Now we have new officers which's exciting and would be excellent to work with from now on.� First is Yael Agriss as the new Chair.�� Next, the Vice Chair position as of [...]
Thu, Oct 01 2009

Breaking news- DHHIG chair resigns.
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog Saturday September 12, 2009 From: DHHIG Chair, John Olumoya To:� DHHIG Board of Directors, Via: DHHIG Vice Chair, Ms. Yael Agriss, ������� DHHIG Secretary, Ms. Gail Edwards Dear DHHIG Board of Directors: In the past four months, I have tried my best to fix several major problems which I believe was preventing this particular DHHIG administration from moving forward. I...
Mon, Sep 14 2009

DHHIG�s New Administration
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog Even though Steve Gagnon, Mark McKay, Deborah Broadus, and Jason Kaldini lost the election but overall, �the DHHIG MEMBERS won. The team only lost by 20 to 30 votes out of 200 voters. The message is CLEAR that DHHIG has to change its ways and include its own members in the organization. The CFDGE moderators [...]
Tue, May 12 2009

Founder�s syndrome- to all deaf organizations
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog Founder's syndrome We noticed that this is common problem in all Deaf organizations including DHHIG. It happens when young people or new people try to come in and offer out-of-box thinking.. Often they will be rejected. People need to start understanding that NO ORGANIZATION is theirs to own. It belongs to the PEOPLE or the Stakeholders. [...]
Mon, May 04 2009

Wrap up and the future of the Deaf Government Employees
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog Hello!� I�d like to make a recap of what�s been happening during the past month.� It has been a tough time but I am sure we all have learned something and thought of different ideas on how to improve the doings of DHHIG for the future.� If you�d remember when DHHIG first sent out the [...]
Wed, Apr 01 2009

Special Announcement!!
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog Hi! My name is Steven Gagnon. We would like to invite all deaf Government employees to a lunch social. There, we can discuss various of topics and issues. At the same time, meet new people. Anyone is welcome!!! We would love to meet all of you. Since we are trying this for the first time, we [...]
Wed, Mar 25 2009

DHHIG�s By-Laws
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog Hello, my name is Earl Allen. I have been a Federal employee the past 9 months. I am here to explain the facts of the By-Laws. This current version of By-Laws was discussed, revised, and amended at NTC 2007. It was made official and posted online on December 11, 2007. [...]
Mon, Mar 23 2009

Excellent post by a board member!
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog My name is Kirsten Poston. I am a DHHIG Board Member. I am speaking on my own here as Kirsten Poston, not as DHHIG. I am posting this message because I hear the members. I understand you. I know your frustrations. I want to reach out to each one of you and encourage you to volunteer [...]
Wed, Mar 18 2009
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DHHIG- Be Transparent!
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog Hello, I am a long time DHHIG member. We voted for several people on the board yet we don�t know what they are doing. There are no board meeting announcements showing the time and location of the meeting. We are not so sure if the public is even invited to attend. �Members should have the option [...]
Mon, Mar 16 2009

DHHIG- Value your Members!
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog Value your members! Hi, I�m Socorro Garica, I have been working for the Federal Government for 2 years. �I am speaking for DHHIG�s concern members. I would like to share several issue with you. Many agencies are denying them video phone access, lack of emergency preparedness plan for deaf and hard of hearing employees, pagers, [...]
Fri, Mar 13 2009

DHHIG Board- Please Open the Door!
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog Hello, my name is Brian Lucas. I have been working for the Federal Government for 6 months. �I want to discuss this issue with you �open the doors to its members�. Recently, DHHIG posted a call of volunteers for election committee; we wish that DHHIG did this before we sent them the concern letter. � The [...]
Wed, Mar 11 2009

DHHIG update vlog
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog I want to inform all of you that the Board of DHHIG has responded to their letter of concerns regarding the Call of Nominations letter. We do appreciate their quick response.� �However, the Board�s response hasn�t resolved all of their concerns regarding the election process.� We will wait and see what the new committee�s responses [...]
Mon, Mar 09 2009

How can WE improve DHHIG???
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog DHHIG election is coming soon, �and in order for the organization to run like a well oiled machine, changes are needed!�That includes allowing new people with fresh energy and and those who think outside of the box on board.� If you work�for the Government �(any type of Government Sector including local, state, federal, private contractor, post [...]
Thu, Mar 05 2009

Updates
Changes For Deaf Government Employees's Blog We have received a response back from the Board of Directors, the team is currently reviewing the letter and will have a VLOG/BLOG response shortly. In the meanwhile, we would like to thank the Board for a speedy response. There will be several issues that this blog/vlog will discuss, stay tuned! Please refer this site to all Deaf [...]
Sat, Feb 28 2009