Pardon Our Dust – A Much Needed GovLoop Refresh is Coming!

The GovLoop team, with the aid of the good folks at Forum One, is currently in the process of pushing a few new updates to the site in our continual efforts towards better usability and an overall more pleasing user experience. So if you see strange things happening around the site, please bear with us!Read… Read more »

Inauguration day, fed style – Plus the 7 DorobekINSIDER stories

On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: As a journalist, a college student a writer by trade, i’ve been filled with the horrors of plagiarism. So when I heard Henry Sienkiewicz tell the crowd gathered at the Keys to Next Generation Security Operations conference that not only is plagiarism ok, it’s encouraged when it comes to cybeersecurity, IRead… Read more »

5 Questions to Ask for Analytics Initiatives

Post Highlights Overview of 5 questions to ask for an analytics initiative Post provides steps to think through for analytics initiatives Analytics continues to transform the way government delivers services. Undoubtedly, analytics is transforming the way government operates and delivers services to customers. At all levels of government, agencies are now challenged to reduce costs,Read… Read more »

When plagiarism isn’t a bad thing: Cybersecurity

As a journalist, a college student a writer by trade, i’ve been filled with the horrors of plagiarism. So when I heard Henry Sienkiewicz tell the crowd gathered at the Keys to Next Generation Security Operations conference that not only is plagiarism ok, it’s encouraged when it comes to cybeersecurity, i was shocked. Sienkiewicz isRead… Read more »

14 Timeless Leadership Quotes

Leadership is not new. While times change and technologies evolve, a lot of the same leadership lessons apply. That’s why I’ve been loving the fine folks at @leadershiptips who’ve been providing great leadership quotes every day on Twitter. Here’s 14 timeless leadership quotes from their archive: 20 yrs from now u will be more disappointedRead… Read more »

GIS in the Cloud

From the private to the public sector, organizations are quickly making the transition to the cloud to streamline processes and reduce costs. The cloud is also becoming increasingly more important for GIS professionals. This is because cloud computing offers an alternative to traditional methods of consuming GIS services, allowing consumers to access GIS maps andRead… Read more »

Have All Presidents Been Inspiring Speakers? 4 Insights from Inaugural Addresses

Margaret Perlis wrote a great piece in Forbes entitled, “8 Public Speaking Lessons From 57 Inaugural Speeches: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.” After reading through every inaugural speech over the past 228 years (and finding that it was “like eating a head of raw broccoli … very substantive, but tough to get through.”),Read… Read more »

Inauguration Bite: 4 things you can do to deal with the transition

Today is Inauguration Day and no amount of prep work can prepare anyone for the tremendous amount of changes that the administration will face in the upcoming months. Cabinet secretaries will be confirmed. Policies will be unveiled. And the new 113 Congress will get down to governing. So what can you do? The career fedRead… Read more »

Military suicides on the rise: What can be done to help?

Here’s a sad fact, last year more service members committed suicide than died on the battlefield. Despite extensive support and counseling programs, as many as 349 service members committed suicide last year, which would be the highest number since the Department of Defense began keeping detailed statistics in 2001. The President and the Defense SecretaryRead… Read more »