…yep, BAD – Blog Action Day! If you haven’t been paying attention the last few years, Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action. ThisRead… Read more »
Members of the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) are hosting budget-friendly regional events this October and November in 5 cities across the country, and we’d love to see lots of GovLoop members there! All 5 events are posted at GovLoop: – Denver, Colorado – The Wellshire Inn on Friday, October 22, 2010 –Read… Read more »
You can walk into every workplace and find someone that’s making cracks about the boss. But let’s be honest making jokes and complaining at the water cooler aren’t going to change the situation. So what can you do? Thanks to GovLoop member Kathleen Smith I read a great article about how employees can manage theirRead… Read more »
Amy works at Booz Allen (http://www.boozallen.com/) 1. What was your path to public service/current job? As a government contractor, you work on the jobs that are assigned to you. But even that can change the course of your career. I started out as a project assistant, and when I was assigned to a contract wereRead… Read more »
Lovely ColoradoHad a blast at our Denver GovUp last week. It was a great mix of folks from local counties, City of Denver, MPA programs nearby, federal agencies like Interior, GAO, and GSA, and State of Colorado government. The awesome pound below says it all… A couple interesting observations from the night: 1. Help EachRead… Read more »
Government 2.0 is a citizen-centric philosophy and strategy that believes the best results are usually driven by partnerships between citizens and government, at all levels. It is focused entirely on achieving goals through increased efficiency, better management, information transparency, and citizen engagement and most often leverages newer technologies to achieve the desired outcomes. Government 2.0Read… Read more »
I interviewed the person doing this research project (Marco Fioretti, whom I’ve communicated with for a few years and who wrote a chapter for the O’Reilly book “Open Government”) and put up a summary on the O’Reilly web site: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/european-union-starts-project.html The project is just starting, but will try to provide data that researchers can useRead… Read more »
In the federal government, change is a way of life for managers. At a minimum, change comes every four years with either a new administration, or with varying agendas from new political appointees and agency leaders if the incumbent administration has another bite at the apple. So has does real change take hold? For starters,Read… Read more »
Over on Federal Computer Week, Dr. Steve Kelman has written several blog posts on The Lectern in a series of issues related to improving federal acquisitions and communications, specifically information technology projects. Although I have commented on the specific blog posts, I wanted to have a more in depth discussion here. Improving Federal IT AcquisitionsRead… Read more »
NASA will host an Open Government Community Summit on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 from 9pm – 12:30pm at NASA HQ. The Open Government Community Summit Series is an inter-agency collaborative event hosted by a different agency each month, facilitated by the Open Forum Foundation. The September workshop was hosted by the EPA and the NovemberRead… Read more »