It’s that time again… Friday’s Fab Five! Every Friday, we’re summarizing the best of the week and highlighting five members or moments that were especially awesome. The Most Commented Blog of the Week goes to Good Project Management is Common Sense by Josh Nankivel. Josh always does an awesome job giving GovLoop the low downRead… Read more »
As government moves forward with pending budget cuts a lot of things are going to get looked at one of those is going to be federal benefits for the retired. In fact the government is already slicing into retiree checks. Higher federal withholding is taking a bite out of retirees’ annuity checks The suddenly shrinkingRead… Read more »
Fun title? Yes, but a very real issue facing many agencies today. How do you balance the need for flexibility and mobility with the need to ward off cyber attacks and protect data? Well GovLoop wants to get you the answers to those questions. We are hosting a free training webinar on 3/10 and 3/17Read… Read more »
Tom Le Veque is all kinds of awesome. Awesome public servant, really intelligent, and making a big difference in his community. I caught up with him at Gov2.0LA (where he lives). He has been a Police Sergeant at City of Arcadia in California for the past 20 years and is making great strides using WebRead… Read more »
Think Smokey the Bear 2.0. Here’s an example of a government Facebook page that works really well. World: Meet Birdie NYC on Facebook. The goal of Birdie is help meet the goal of GreeNYC: decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 30% over the next 30 years. This is the initiative of Mayor Bloomberg’s Sustainability Director, DavidRead… Read more »
Every Friday, we take a quick look back at the week and highlight five members or moments that were especially awesome. Here’s who and what rocked it out this week. Also we want to know how or what you think killed it this week on the site so help us out with your comments below.Read… Read more »
So there’s been a lot of talk about what will happen on March 4th if the government doesn’t pass a budget. Well I’m no expert but I can tell you there will be a shutdown and also that the world will not end but it will probably suck a a little more. While I’m noRead… Read more »
Excuse my corniness here, but passion realized is the like north star. When followed, it takes you on a kick-ass path: stimulation, fulfillment, trial + tribulations along the way. Like a magnet pulling you toward what you love to do, it gets you up in the morning early, makes you stay up at late night,Read… Read more »
Next month I will be speaking at the We Live NY Summit on Gov 2.0 and social media. The conference is March 24-26 at Cornell University. I am incredibly excited for the conference and really thankful that I get to speak during one of the sessions. The conference has a lot of great program tracksRead… Read more »
We all know collaboration, brainstorming and team-work create a better product, solution and action; but whose two heads are creating the best results? In a recent report by Deloitte, “The Gender Dividend: Making the Business Case for Investing in Women“says Two Different Heads are Better than Two Similar Ones. While this may be obvious, itRead… Read more »