Yearly Archives: 2009

Federal Eye: Zients Gives the Public Sector Some Love

Addressing concerns that he lacks familiarity with the public sector, President Obama’s nominee to serve as the nation’s first chief performance officer acknowledged today that his business background has not blessed him with all the solutions necessary to tweak government management and recruitment plans. “I very much recognize and appreciate that government is different fromRead… Read more »

If it Matters, Measure It (and share the metrics!)

This blog entry originally appeared at Reach The Public. One of my first mentors who ran a region of what was then called Ameritech (a baby bell in the midwest), had a saying, “If you value it, measure it.” The larger the organization, the more this holds true. In government, tracking results and sharing resultsRead… Read more »

Results of some brainstorming

I am involved in leading the project to redevelop http://www.richmondgov.com which is the city government site. And one of the biggest problem that we noted when looking at the current site is that why is this or that, piece of code in this or that location. We noticed that no one that designed the siteRead… Read more »

Sweet Gov Tweets 06.09.09 – 06.10.09

I am back again, this time re-incarnated as Sweet Gov Tweets. To catch up, I am posting two days worth of tweets, so this post is a little long. Before I took all of the RT’s out, it was War and Peace Cordially, Caroline (aka @WiiPigSooie) justinbangs: #Gov20 in Action! Stakeholder comment processes on #publichealthRead… Read more »

Collaborating for successful DoD 5015-STD compliance tests

We are very flexible in supporting vendors’ methods for collaborating and coordinating a successful compliance test. Usually this is via email with massive CC lists or worse, everything is filtered through one person. Lately, I am finding that vendor wikis are a very good collaboration tool. When we can contribute on their wiki, email isRead… Read more »

DoD 5015.02-STD Evolution

As we go through the experiences of collaborating to allow successful compliance testing of a vendor’s product, we also gather information that is used to determine what should be included as the standard evolves. Our goal is to not make RM a stand-alone niche or to stand passively by while technology roars ahead. We wantRead… Read more »

Federal Eye: Speed Bumps for Govt’s Hybrid Vehicle Buys?

The General Services Administration this week ordered roughly 14,100 fuel-efficient vehicles from the (big?) three U.S. automakers, spending $210 million in economic stimulus funds to replace aging gas-guzzlers. That’s in addition to an April order for more than 3,000 hybrids, or vehicles that use a combination of gasoline and electric batteries. Before all those carsRead… Read more »

Why Records and Who Cares?

I just read a tweet that pointed to a blog post that sent me sort of sideways… @parapadakis: Is it a record? Who cares? http://tinyurl.com/kv9bxl #ECM #edrms #compliance I’ve had a chance to think a little more about this and realize that @parapadakis is trying to start a discussion and not a fight 😀 PleaseRead… Read more »

Project of the Week – NAPA’s The Collaboration Project

The National Academy for Public Administration (NAPA), established in 1967 and chartered by Congress, is a non-profit independent coalition of public and private sector leaders who “tackle the nation’s most critical and complex challenges”. The Academy does this through its expansive network of Fellows, Shared Interest Groups, Research, Project Panels, Standing Panels and Consortia, CentersRead… Read more »

Shout Out to the AWESOME GovLoop Community Leaders

Did you know that there is an elite, all-star squadron that helps make GovLoop AWESOME! There is indeed. The GovLoop Community Leaders are the best. Rock-star volunteers that do everything from welcome new members, write member and project of the week series, as well as new activities like Daily Sweet GovTweets, Gov Conference Tweets, runRead… Read more »