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Did you recently take a new position that requires you to have a more supervisory role? This past week I had the good fortune of spending time with several government leaders in our Center for Government Leadership training programs who are facing that very challenge. These Q&A’s came from from than 70 federal supervisors fromRead… Read more »
Government Computer News weighed in on the Adobe versus Apple issue– definitely worth reading:
For the past few days I’ve been mulling over the announcement of a new social networking system for Federal employess. According to an April 27 article in the Federal Times, it will be unveiled later this year. At first I had a cynical reaction along the lines of, “Oh great. Just what we need. AnotherRead… Read more »
Fascinating story on NPR about the “trust” hormone (oxytocin) and one researcher’s findings that trust in the government is related to the amount of stress someone feels at the time. According to the study, trust in the government is at an all time low because of the stress people feel due to the recession. WhenRead… Read more »
Is Gov 2.0 to Web 2.0 as SOA is to Web Services? Gov 2.0 certainly has roots in and relies on Web 2.0 to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. So from a technology perspective it is easy to think of Gov.20 as just a particular implementation ofRead… Read more »
Mayor Fetterman of Braddock Pennsylvania has been fighting to restore Braddock, which was once a prosperous town during 1920s. Now it is dilapidated, but slowly and painfully recovering. There are many such stories around the country. http://www.15104.cc/ruins Also, similar such fate is of Detroit. It is estimated that about 40 % of the houses areRead… Read more »
An email yesterday from the Sunlight Foundation begins like this: Here’s the deal, friends: There is going to be more money in this election year than any mid-term election in history. Whether you think this is good or bad, the Supreme Court made their decision in January, and that’s just the way it is. TheRead… Read more »
Next week is Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW) and GovLoop is teaming up with the Partnership for Public Service to promote PSRW by running a special series called “Meet the Government Mascot.” Each day we’ve been introducing you to a new mascot, then we’ll run a contest on May 6-8 where you can vote forRead… Read more »
Dipl.-Jur. Felix Zimmermann of kjur.de has posted jurMeta – New Metadata Initiative for Legal Documents, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. Mr. Zimmermann’s post describes jurMeta, an innovative new metadata standard — still in development — for German-language legal resources. He relates how he and hisRead… Read more »