Twitter tweets from the Cornell Law.gov Workshop are available at #lawgov. The goal of this invitation-only workshop — being held 22-23 March 2010 at the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School in Ithaca, New York, USA — is to begin the development of metadata standards for a proposed distributed registry and repositoryRead… Read more »
A big THANK YOU to the awesome GovLoop guys for highlighting our Apps for Healthy Kids competition as the project of the week. It was a great effort to create the competition with the First Lady’s Let’s Move! team, OSTP and our nutrition experts at USDA’s Center for Nutrition and Policy Promotion. The competition isRead… Read more »
When you’re part of an organizing committee for an event, you always breathe a sigh of relief when the day is complete and all the participants have gone home. That sense of calm you feel can be a bit misleading though, particularly when the purpose of the event is to establish direction and to figureRead… Read more »
It’s that time of year again, when playoffs of all kinds are in the news. Just for fun, go to the Government Printing Office’s “National Parks Playoff” of favorite National Parks handbooks, matched with park posters by the noted artist Charley Harper. Visit http://bookstore.gpo.gov/index.jsp and make your picks for the Federal Final Four. Once they’reRead… Read more »
GovLoop Founder Steve Ressler was able to catch up with the incredible and ever-awesome Amanda Eamich, Director of New Media at USDA, to ask her a few questions about a sweet new contest that they are hosting in tandem with the White House. Check it out! 1. For those that don’t know…what’s the elevator pitchRead… Read more »
Steve Pegram is a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM), Coast Guard Auxiliary Aviator, and currently serves as Chief of the USCG Auxiliary Incident Management Systems Branch while serving with me in the USCG Auxiliary University Programs Branch. In his “day job,” Steve is “Senior Client Consultant for Crisis Communications & Operational Integration” at a great companyRead… Read more »
When I decided to read this book, I didn’t know hardly anything about it. Oh, I knew it had been on many editors Top Picks of 2009 lists, but that was about it. But my first book review for GovLoop was coming out in March, which is Women’s History Month, so I decided this wouldRead… Read more »
… and you can only home to contain Ali Farokhmanesh!!! Here’s the vid of his game winning shot. And for your victory, Northern Iowa, you take on Kansas smh (definition #1). Full disclosure: Northern Iowa’s head coach, Ben Jacobson, is from my home town of Mayville, ND and we went to high school together. SoRead… Read more »
Originally posted at http://andrewpwilson.posterous.com/what-are-your-top-ideas-for-gov-panels-or-peo. Having just returned from my 2nd SXSW, I am going through the same process as many people who were there – trying to figure out what it all meant for me. I was able to achieve most of what I set out to accomplish but, no surprise, the event also raisedRead… Read more »
by Donna L. Quesinberry National Writing Examiner Writing is an art that takes on many forms. Success-driven grant writing is an art that uses a logical structure and clear arguments to secure needed funding for a potential awardee. The grant proposal is like a sales proposal (most recognized are federal acquisition proposals) in as farRead… Read more »