Want to make a difference in your office, in your circle of friends, or among your acquaintances? This video shows how a few words of encouragement can have a ripple effect. You never know when someoneMay catch a dream from you.You never know when a little wordOr something you may do May open up theRead… Read more »
Remember our project back in March, 2010? The GovLoop family donated $5,000 to help fellow member David Broadwell and wife Antonia move to Slovakia and build a home where Antonia could be close to her family while she dealt with cancer and raising triplet infants. David and Antonia are currently living in an apartment nearRead… Read more »
I just discovered (but searching reveals that many others here on GovLoop already know this) that there is now an active beta site for feds to shorten their urls: http://go.usa.gov Go.USA.gov lets government employees create short .gov URLs from official government domains, such as .gov, .mil, .si.edu, or .fed.us URLs.We are currently beta testing Go.USA.gov.Read… Read more »
A pretty interesting explanation … http://www.wimp.com/budgetcuts/
I just found an interesting comment on a blog at Information Week from Janelle: When the City of San Francisco, the City of Houston, and the Country of Ireland wanted to launch innovation portals to increase collaboration & gather ideas between employees and citizens, they turned to Brightidea. All three programs have unique themes withRead… Read more »
Brown creates one UK.gov website to rule them all Centralised ‘dashboard’ to save lots of money By Chris Williams • Get more from this author Posted in Government, 22nd March 2010 12:11 GMT The government has announced plans for a personalised web page for every UK citizen to access all public services online in aRead… Read more »
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I read this interesting article this morning by Gerry McGovern about some ‘protective’ (my description) thinking behind most web pages. I was wondering if you see this as true for web pages published by your government agency. One would hope that government agencies publish actionable information. Do you think this is more of a concernRead… Read more »
By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek December 16, 2009 04:33 PM The House of Representatives is finally about to get with the times and will soon install a Wi-Fi network, it announced late last week. The roll-out will take place over as long as three years, according to a statement of work posted on the WebRead… Read more »
In the process of redesigning our city’s web site a few years ago, we studied the comments of Gerry McGovern in Ireland. Gerry is the author of a newsletter called NEW THINKING which has insightful content about the use of our web sites and the content we provide on it. I really liked his thoughtsRead… Read more »