Last year, Market Connections shared the results of a Federal survey in which government use of both LinkedIn and GovLoop were on the rise. The results intrigued us and we wanted to learn more about how government employees were leveraging online networks to improve their performance and achieve professional advancement. In July and August, weRead… Read more »
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Depending on which stats you look at and depending on which group you talk to, federal employees are either WAY underpaid or WAY overpaid. How can those divergent numbers exits? We drill down the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics’ numbers with the Washington Post’s Eric Yoder. Click here for the fullRead… Read more »
Depending on which stats you look at and depending on which group you talk to, federal employees are either WAY underpaid or WAY overpaid. How can those divergent numbers exits? “You can pretty much pick whatever numbers you want and you can’t be disproven,” said Eric Yoder a staff writer for the Washington Post. TheRead… Read more »
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Iran’s recent state-sponsored denial of service attacks on US Banks are just the latest cybersecurity threats making the news. So what’s new? What the Defense Department’s role? And how do you get ahead of the innovative hactivisits? Insights from the director of security strategies at Imperva – Rob Rachwald. Click hereRead… Read more »
Cyberspace has fundamentally transformed the global economy. It’s transformed our way of life, providing two billion people across the world with instant access to information to communication, to economic opportunities. And yet, with these possibilities, also come new perils and new dangers. The Internet is open. It’s highly accessible, as it should be. But thatRead… Read more »
Interesting article from Project MyGov – I’m a huge fan of persona’s – love the Hipmunk chipmunk & NYC’s Birdie (to the right) ———— Humans create websites for other humans to read. So when did we start talking to people like they’re robots? Raise your hand if you’ve ever seen this message on your computerRead… Read more »
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 »
I’ve been meeting recently with a number of recent graduates (mainly MPA/MPPs) and I’ve found most of them want “policy jobs.” It’s kind of an interesting situation – these MPA/MPP graduate programs prep them for policy work but honestly there’s not a ton of policy jobs. Most federal openings aren’t about setting policy but aboutRead… Read more »
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: We’ve all listened to the debates, the campaign stump speeches, the political ads — and if you were looking for the candidates take on policy — you’d be satisfied. But what about operations, implementation and management tactics? If you were looking for how the President or Governor Romney would actually implementRead… Read more »
We’ve all listened to the debates, the campaign stump speeches, the political ads — and if you were looking for the candidates take on policy — you’d be satisfied. But what about operations, implementation and management tactics? If you were looking for how the President or Governor Romney would actually implement those policies you wouldRead… Read more »