**We’ll be hosting a session on Mobile Government: Today, Tomorrow, & Beyond featuring government case studies at our Government Innovators Online Summit on September 13.** In 2012, the number of smartphone users will reach 106.7 million with 94% of these users accessing the mobile internet. With citizens and government employees increasingly adopting multiple mobile deviceRead… Read more »
I’ve always been a humongous Todd Park fan. I first met him briefly about 4 years ago when he spoke at a Gov 2.0 Expo dinner where, without a microphone, he got a crowd of 50 people enchanted in his vision for government innovation. It’s not every day you see someone with so much passionRead… Read more »
We recently relaunched our GovLoop Jobs Finder (jobs.govloop.com) which builds upon the USAJOBS data set to make it easy to find great federal jobs. I’ve been spending a lot of time researching federal jobs so I thought I’d share 4 facts about finding your next federal job based on our subs-set of data we areRead… Read more »
I’m having my first child in 5 weeks (but I, I mean my wife is doing all the real work). So I’m in the process of looking for a pediatrician. As a technologist, one of my questions I keep on asking potential pediatricians is: -Do you have an electronic records system? How am I ableRead… Read more »
The Next Generation of Government Training Summit is tomorrow and I’m super excited to meet all 600 of you (check out the live stream for those not coming) Here’s everything you need to know for manana: 1 – Prep yourself for an amazing experience at NextGen! Tomorrow, you will hear from several experts on aRead… Read more »
Government agencies are always looking to engage with citizens. However, often when government agencies do reach out for engagement, they get little in return. So how do you truly engage citizens? I recently watched an old video from Tom Steinberg of mysociety (embed below) where he has a simple idea – “focus on self interest”Read… Read more »
Are you excited for Next Generation of Government Training Summit next week? Honestly, this is my favorite 2 days of the year. 500+ government leaders, 100+ speakers, 40+ sessions. There’s a lot going on – so how do you make the most of your time at NextGen both for you personally and to bring backRead… Read more »
A New Procurement Model And Why You Need Enterprise Architecture by cdorobek On Today’s Edition of the DorobekINSIDER We often hear about government and industry partnering. There are many challenges. And many challenges to changing government procurement to make it better. The CIO for the state of Oklahoma is trying, and he will tell youRead… Read more »
About a month ago, I was lucky enough to participate in the Startup Weekend Government challenge. While there were lots of ideas that were interesting, my favorite idea was related to improving acquisition process through technology. The team’s final product GS Agility ended up winning the grand prize and I love the idea of aRead… Read more »
Yesterday, I was lucky enough to check out a new data center in Tampa, FL. Nope it wasn’t a huge facility – it was literally a 20 foot POD on a trade show floor in the convention center. It’s a product from HP called the HP Performance Optimized Data Center (POD) (i.e. data center inRead… Read more »