So I’ve been traveling a lot lately. And once you start traveling a lot, you start to learn the tricks of the trade. Here’s my how-to tips on traveling 1. Decide on a loyalty program – Pick one hotel chain and one airline and focus on them at any costs. You will get much betterRead… Read more »
This post originally appeared on my external blog, “Social Media Strategery.” I know we’re all busy. We have deadlines to meet, emails to write/respond to, projects to work on, management issues to take care of, errands to run, families to care for, and many many other things that we do on a daily basis. ToRead… Read more »
Originally posted to http://www.andrewdwelch.com at http://www.andrewdwelch.com/2010/05/americas-top-military-officer-uses.html. I have grown to appreciate the value of interdisciplinary thinking. Put another way, I have found that my experiences in business, the Coast Guard, education, non-profits, information technology, even retail have together prepared me to better tackle a variety of challenges across industries, organizations, venues. Of course, I doRead… Read more »
Do you ever feel like your current role at work places you in charge of 10 billion different things? Well, David S. Ferriero does. As the 10th Archivist of the United States, David leads the National Archives and and Records Administration in preserving our nation’s most valuable documents. This week I asked him about hisRead… Read more »
Craig Newmark, the creator and founder of Craigslist.org and recent Federal 100 winner of 2010, will address the Virtual FOSE audience on Wednesday, July 21st at 2:00PM EST. From the convenience of your computer, watch Craig’s LIVE presentation titled “Trust is the New Black Distributed Networks of Trust.” PLUS, get your questions personally answered byRead… Read more »
A Transportation Security Administration agent surrendered to authorities on Tuesday and was charged with stealing almost $500 from a wheelchair-bound woman passing through a security checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport. The TSA has suspended agent Leroy Ray, 44 of Newark, adding yet another incident to a growing list of troubling cases involving agency workers.Read… Read more »
Government Executive and the SANS Institute are partnering to co-produce the Government Executive Cybersecurity Insider Series, monthly expert briefings on pressing cybersecurity issues. These hyper-current events will feature discussions with high-profile federal officials involved in crafting cybersecurity policy and implementation strategies. The series kicks off on June 15th with a briefing entitled “OMB Changes theRead… Read more »
One of our members, Meyer Moldeven, caught my attention by stating that he was in his “93rd year.” I quickly confirmed with him that I read that comment correctly…and it was true! So here you go – a Member of the Week that I have to believe is our most senior GovLooper! 1. How didRead… Read more »
Sterling keeps a blog called All Things Sterling. Transparency. Accountability. Openness. Whatever you want to call it, it’s here to stay. Transparency is young, but contract transparency is an infant. This gives us the opportunity to set the agenda of what it really means and will look like for years to come. GovLoop has alreadyRead… Read more »
Henrietta Lacks is immortal. She didn’t aim to be immortal, she just wanted to get better. She knew she was sick, and when she went to Johns Hopkins one day for a biopsy on a ‘knot inside her’ the doctor took a slice of her cervix tumor and give it to a lab at theRead… Read more »