Twitter tweets from the Cornell Law.gov Workshop are available at #lawgov. The goal of this invitation-only workshop — being held 22-23 March 2010 at the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School in Ithaca, New York, USA — is to begin the development of metadata standards for a proposed distributed registry and repositoryRead… Read more »
A big THANK YOU to the awesome GovLoop guys for highlighting our Apps for Healthy Kids competition as the project of the week. It was a great effort to create the competition with the First Lady’s Let’s Move! team, OSTP and our nutrition experts at USDA’s Center for Nutrition and Policy Promotion. The competition isRead… Read more »
Job ads for recruiters and HR Generalists are on the rise. I’ve seen many open roles in government recently as well. This is a good sign that the economy is starting to improve in both the public and private sector. As Gen Y are an ever growing part of the applicant pool organizations and agenciesRead… Read more »
A bad contractor (or subcontractor) can cost your agency time, money and (worst of all) your reputation. Beyond the budget numbers are indicators. One sign I suspect is excessive suing competitors instead of inventing new products and services. Take for example Apple suing HTC over patent infringement. It is my belief that this shows aRead… Read more »
When you’re part of an organizing committee for an event, you always breathe a sigh of relief when the day is complete and all the participants have gone home. That sense of calm you feel can be a bit misleading though, particularly when the purpose of the event is to establish direction and to figureRead… Read more »
Interview with british rockstar @dominiccampbell on Public=Online Favorite
Sweet interview with OpenGovTracker.com @jessykate on “The Next Gov20 Awesomeness” Favorite
Regardless of your views, for or against, the health care reform act you must admit that its passage was historic. The long battle to reach this point could be, however, all for naught if not properly managed. The good news is the strategy and tools are available, will they be used? First, to make sureRead… Read more »
It’s that time of year again, when playoffs of all kinds are in the news. Just for fun, go to the Government Printing Office’s “National Parks Playoff” of favorite National Parks handbooks, matched with park posters by the noted artist Charley Harper. Visit http://bookstore.gpo.gov/index.jsp and make your picks for the Federal Final Four. Once they’reRead… Read more »
GovLoop Founder Steve Ressler was able to catch up with the incredible and ever-awesome Amanda Eamich, Director of New Media at USDA, to ask her a few questions about a sweet new contest that they are hosting in tandem with the White House. Check it out! 1. For those that don’t know…what’s the elevator pitchRead… Read more »