GSA Rockstars Go Prime-Time
So cool to see Sheila Campbell in Fast Company as most influential women in tech. She runs the GSA Web best practices team… http://www.fastcompany.com/article/sheila-campbell-gsa?1272371351 Favorite
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From Web to Washington: GovLoop Trivia Showdown or Friendly Meeting?
It was a dark and (stormy)…well cold…night in Washington last week when I arrived. Following eight hours on I-95, three cups of coffee, two traffic jams, and a metro ride in a dark subway; I had finally arrived. My mission was clear and time was of the essence. I had to make it to theRead… Read more »
Member of the Week: Amanda Blount
As we like to say at GovLoop, Amanda Blount is awesome. There’s just no other way to say it. That’s why I am proud to feature Amanda as GovLoop Member of the Week. She really is a GovLooper extraordinaire. You’ll see her commenting on blog posts and forums and groups and she greets new members…andRead… Read more »
DAU has Browseable, *Non*-Credit Courses and Modules
Wow. It’s been a journey. Missteps and corrections are everywhere. It’s been a minefield. Finally though, it’s been clarified… DAU has browseable, *non*-credit material for future acquisition professionals. This is the material that future acquisition professionals need. While you don’t get credit unless you’re an Acquisition, Technology & Logistics (AT&L) Workforce Member, the material isRead… Read more »
Where is Your Favorite Place to Work (and where you are also most productive)?
I have worked at GSA for many (many) years and we have always had the equipment, systems, tools and support that we need to work while on the road, work from a client site, work from home, etc. And because of this, it’s also very clear to me that our workforce seems to always beRead… Read more »
Why Understanding the Cycle of Business Development is important to Winning Government Proposals
My 5-year-old daughter, when working on a puzzle, knows to glance at the whole picture first, before starting to assemble the pieces. She is up to 30-piece puzzles now, which have gotten quite complex. So, her process is to study the picture, and then find a corner piece to which she then starts adding pieces.Read… Read more »
Federal Eye: Eye Opener: Porn and federal workers
A new investigation by Securities and Exchange Commission watchdogs finds that dozens of agency employees used government computers to look at explicit images in the last five years, the AP scoops. The SEC inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at the images and said 31 of those occurred in the 2 1/2 yearsRead… Read more »
What Nutragenomics, custom Nikes, and ordering take out tell us about American political life
Originally posted on http://www.andrewdwelch.com at http://www.andrewdwelch.com/2010/04/what-nutritional-genomics-custom-nikes.html Have you ever heard of Nutritional Genomics? “Nutragenomics,” they call it, it’s a science I have been told has revealed much about the complex interactions between diet and genes. I’ve even been told that it could make possible what is called “personalized nutrition,” whereby in several years one mightRead… Read more »
Earth Day and Energy Efficiency: GovLoop Poll Results
In anticipation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Earth Day 2010 today, we worked with GovLoop last week to poll community members on workplace habits related to energy efficiency. I was pleased and encouraged by the over 150 responses to our poll, which consisted of the following three questions: 1) How does energy efficiency influenceRead… Read more »
Acquisition Rules of Thumb
Below is an updated version of the old Acquisition Manifesto. Manifesto wasn’t really applicable to what this project turned into, so the title has been changed. In addition, new rules of thumb have been added and the list is now alphabetized. However, I think there may be too many categories, so some may need toRead… Read more »