Yearly Archives: 2012

The Importance of Confidence

Creative Commons via youaremyfave.com Over the past 4 years, I’ve met a lot of my online friends “in real life.” And, as a sociologist, I’m always curious to see if someone will live up to their online persona. There are 3 possibilities, right? I am always delighted when people meet or exceed my expectations andRead… Read more »

Federal Resume help

Hi I am writting federal resume and this is really the first time I am writting it. Can “Rock your Resume ” check it. I would really appreciate it. Dorothy

Cloud $ Confusion

It seems like never before has a technology platform brought so much confusion as the Cloud. No, I am not talking about the definition of cloud (which dogged many for quite some time), but the cost-savings or the elusiveness of them related to cloud computing. On one hand, we have the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy,Read… Read more »

Keeping the Sanity During Election Time

I’m employed by local government, so the presidential election does not have a direct effect on my organization and daily duties. However, I’m interested in hearing from our federal communicators on how they deal with it. How do you keep everyone’s focus, and what steps do you take to prepare for possible change of presidents?Read… Read more »

Fixing the Paradox of Government

I really enjoyed the presentation by Tim O’Reilly on “Technology & 21st Century Government“ He begins with what he says is the great paradox of government “It’s too big & costs too much. Yet there are problems that the private sector can’t solve alone” Which leads to the thought – “What if we felt aboutRead… Read more »

Are You Really Hiring the Best? It’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Plus your Weekend Reads

Welcome to GovLoop Insights Issue of the Week with Chris Dorobek where each week, our goal is to find an issue — a person — an idea — then helped define the past 7-days and we work to find an issue that will also will have an impact on the days, weeks and months ahead.Read… Read more »

D2D2T vs. Online Server Backup – The Battle of Cost, Complexity, and Capabilities

Why Online Server Backup is Better Than Tape Backup by Nick Mueller, Zetta.net VNM101212 – An epic server backup battle is being waged right now in IT shops at small and medium-sized businesses all over the world. The battle is really just the choice between tapes, disks, D2D2T, and online server backup (which includes manyRead… Read more »

Join us at GovCon 2012

By RyanKamauff This 3 for one conference is a great opportunity to learn how to accelerate your agency The Cloud & Virtualization, Cybersecurity and Mobile Government Conferences provide government technology professionals with vast opportunities to learn and experience the latest cloud, cyber and mobile solutions. Help your agency’s transition to the cloud, leverage mobile applicationsRead… Read more »

NSF, DoE and NASA Tournament Lab to Launch Big Data Challenge Series for U.S. Government Agencies

By BobGourley NASA and the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy have just launched an awesome sounding Big Data challenge. Please help spread the word of this to the data science team in your agency or organization, sounds like a great way to enhance collaboration on some big issues that will help theRead… Read more »