5 Predictions for What Will Happen in Government in 2016
Psychic skills aren’t required to make predictions about the most pressing issues that agencies will be working on over the next year.
How Are Your Taxpayer Dollars Being Managed?
Do you ever wonder where our taxpayer dollars are going? Sometimes, it seems like our money is being invested in the newest trends of government instead of addressing reoccurring issues, such as fixing those bumpy highways we all know. It is hard to manage citizens’ wants and desires while maintaining a positive cost benefit environmentRead… Read more »
Take This 21-Day Federal Employee End-of-Year Challenge
Don’t throw in the towel just yet. You’ve still got time in this year to accomplish at least one very important thing that you want to do before you say farewell to 2015.
All is Not Lost
As humans, we tend to have a really BIG aversion to loss. We’re afraid of missing out on a deal. We’re afraid that the children will starve without our help. We are more attuned to avoiding a loss than the joy we may get from seeing a gain or positive experience. The people who ‘market’… Read more »
What the Public Sector Needs in Order to Change
As the demands on government groups are often measured by comparison to the private sector’s results, there must be a discussion concerning the additional burden faced by public entities
How to Engage an Audience on Twitter
Social media is a great way to interact with others, exchange information and get your ideas and products out to a larger and broader audience. However, social media demands that those on it are social—engagement is key to a successful social media presence. It can be difficult to know how to engage and when to… Read more »
2015 – A Year In Connected Security
This interview is an excerpt from our recent guide, 30 Government Innovations That Mattered in 2015 which examines 30 government case studies that explore innovation at all levels of government. Innovations that spanned the government job spectrum from human resources to cybersecurity and back again. The largest cyber breach in the history of government sawRead… Read more »
GovLoop’s Gov Learning Projects in 2015
I don’t know how else to say it: we crushed it in 2015! What started out as a response to 30,000 people attending GovLoop online trainings and OPM asking us to convert a classroom-based course in 2013 has become an award-winning learning development division at GovLoop. First, some quick statistics just to give you aRead… Read more »
From A-Z – Security Made Whole
“Cybersecurity isn’t just an issue for leaders in the “big boy seats, but rather, for everyone using the Internet,” said Peter Singer, author of Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know and a Brookings Fellow. Gone are the days when cybersecurity was just an information technology problem. In 2015 alone, eBay, LivingSocial, Adobe, Evernote,Read… Read more »
How to Prepare for the 2016 Presidential Transition
National security is always a priority for any administration. And this year cybersecurity was the primary agenda item. But it won’t stop at the end of 2015. The new President-elect will have to hit the ground running when it comes to addressing national security. In order to tackle the security question, it is crucial that government workRead… Read more »