Yearly Archives: 2013

TSP Talk Weekly Wrap Up

Stocks opened lower last Monday morning but quickly recovered and never looked back as it was another big week for the market with earnings season getting underway. It seems investors were also happy about Japan’s new monetary policy which is even more aggressive than the U.S’s policy of throwing $85 billion into the system eachRead… Read more »

Investment Funds in TSP: A Review

Do you know how your retirement funds are invested? Where is the bulk of your retirement money? G Fund– The G Fund assets are managed internally by the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. The G Fund buys a nonmarketable U.S. Treasury security that is guaranteed by the U.S. Government. This means that the G FundRead… Read more »

How Citizen Engagement Can Be Improved Through Mobile GIS

As mobile adoption continues to grow in consumer markets, it is imperative that government continue to embrace mobile and learn how to best optimize mobile technology to stay relevant and improve citizen engagement programs. The Pew Internet & American Life Project has a variety of data related to mobile adoption. In December 2012, Pew reportsRead… Read more »

Beginning At The Beginning

The doc was sewing me up when she said, “I’d like to do social media, but there is just too much with Facebook and Twitter and all those other things. I don’t know where to start.” My first thought was she should pay attention, I didn’t want to look like a football, but she’s aRead… Read more »

Vanilla Ice had it right: STOP, Collaborate, and Listen

One of the things that I’ve realized over the last few years is that despite the fact that I’ve gained more experience, I’ve done more formal educations, taken trainings, and built a lot of personal capabilities, I seem to have trended towards more collaborative decision making. I now spend more time talking to people aboutRead… Read more »

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Blocks, barriers and doorstops! Innovation in the NHS ✚ Review: Writing Kit for iPad POINT BREAK: 16 points of the cluetrain manifesto comms people need to know Investment in Place and People: Why I am looking for help funding a fantastic new Shoreditch Works space ImplementingRead… Read more »

The Senate Curtails STOCK Act Provision – Plus Your Weekend Reads

The Senate has curtailed a provision in the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act that forced legislative and executive staffers to disclose their finances on a public, searchable database. The decision comes after a major grumblings from senior executives. Congress tapped the National Academy of Public Administration to take a closer look at the provision.Read… Read more »