Please check out www.interfaithpeacewalk.org and join us if you’re able on April 29, 2012 in Philadelphia at 2:00 p.m. (18th and Spruce St.) for a walking dialogue among Muslims, Jews, Chrisitians, Sikh’s, Buddhists, Hindus, Krishna’s and other religious and secular groups who want to promote communication, dialogue and peace within our city and world. SubmittedRead… Read more »
I like the MyUniversity website – it’s clean, useful and mostly simple. However, when using it the other day I found one extremely major flaw. It’s not mobile friendly. I recently reported that 47% of internet connections in Australia were now via mobile devices. This was based on an ABS report from the December quarterRead… Read more »
Today, more than 200 executives from the DC area convened at the fourth annual Federal Media and Marketing Study (FMMS) breakfast hosted by Market Connections to learn how to effectively reach government decision makers when selling to the federal market. Knowing how to target those leaders who, ultimately, make the buying decisions can be highlyRead… Read more »
NASA is taking a big leap forward in their quest for more openness. The space agency has just unveiled phase 2 of their open government plan — open government 2.0, if you will. The plan says open government is the responsibility of every person who works at NASA and that the agency takes seriously theRead… Read more »
It seems like every month there’s a new social network. Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Ping.fm, MySpace and countless blogs. No sooner does one fall off the radar, such as MySpace, than another shows up, like Pinterest! Then there are the vertical social networks such as GovLoop here in DC. We are so awash inRead… Read more »
Young children are legendary for asking Why? Why? Why? when seeking to learn. Adults, however, tend to simply do what’s been done before without asking – why do we do this? An experience to consider. When appointed as head of operations years ago, I suspended a dozen reports compiled by the accounting department without announcingRead… Read more »
An innovative fund for innovation; NASA’s opengov 2.0 plan; and the Sunshine Awards by GovLoop Insights On today’s program for Thursday April 12, 2012: The challenge is to be innovative. What about an innovation fund? They’re actually trying this out in Michigan. We’ll talk to the person behind it about how it works… their goals…Read… Read more »
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) unveiled an updated version of their smartphone application, IRS2Go, in early February. The app was “designed to provide taxpayers easier access to practical tools and information,” and the update included an application programming interface (API) integration with GovDelivery Digital Communication Management (DCM), which allowed app users to sign up toRead… Read more »
As Pinterest gains in popularity on the Internet, government is taking notice; Pinterest is already the 3rd most popular social networking website, behind only Facebook and Twitter. It specializes in allowing users to create their own pin boards and share photographs they find interesting with their followers. The Military has taken advantage of Pinterest, andRead… Read more »
Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — When you think of “games,” you might think of Gears of War for Xbox, or Angry Birds for iPhone, or perhaps Zynga games for Facebook. But increasingly, people working in the public and civic sectors see value in leveraging games and game mechanics to accomplish real-world change. In that vein,Read… Read more »