A small group of designers and entrepreneurs in Chattanooga, TN have been engaged in a grass-roots effort to make their city first city in the US to have its own font. It started last year when collaboration began on a font to encapsulate the unique aspects of the city. In January, the group unveiled Chatype,Read… Read more »
The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Monday the 30th of July, 2012 Congress is one step closer to reaching a funding deal that would avert government shutdown on September 30th. Politico reports that this six-month funding resolution would avert a messy budget fight right before elections in November. The expiration of Bush-era tax-cutsRead… Read more »
One big thing about this blog post from HBR caught my eye: The author emphasizes the role of culture in accountability. Instead of looking at deadlines and performance plans, the author suggests that a culture of accountability has to have room for failure. Projects and initiatives fail all the time, it’s a part of lifeRead… Read more »
All our photos from NextGen12 can be seen here. Some of the best are below, taken by Govlooper Kanika Tolver: Steve Ressler emceed many of the sessions, rocking the “Field Notebook” used by conference participants to keep track of which of the awesome session they wanted to check out next. Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of wordpress:Read… Read more »
This is the fourth in a five part series, originally published on the Tri Tuns blog. Start at the beginning here. TIMELESS INSIGHT It’s amazing to consider how the insights and teachings of Mark Twain — a man who died decades before modern information systems were even conceived –may hold some of the greatest lessonsRead… Read more »
Congress is considering expanding the transparency provisions first developed for the Recovery Act to all federal spending. A new report looks back at states’ experiences in implementing the federal reporting requirements and offers insights for the potential of extending such requirements. Since 2009, the public has been able to track the outlay of more thanRead… Read more »
The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Tuesday the 24th of July, 2012 The President’s nominee to lead the Office of Government Ethics says Congress should change a new law that aims to prevent insider trading of stocks because of potential unintended consequences affecting the privacy and safety of federal employees. We’ve been tellingRead… Read more »
This is the third in a five part series, originally published on the Tri Tuns blog. Start at the beginning here. TIMELESS INSIGHT As I mentioned in my last blog post, I recently I came across a page of Mark Twain quotes and in reading them I realized that the insights and teachings of aRead… Read more »
The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Monday the 23rd of July, 2012 The House has approved a $606 billion Defense Department spending bill. The bill includes a pay raise for military members but not the Pentagon’s civilians. Government Executive says the bill provides $518 billion in non-war funding — that is lower thanRead… Read more »
Welcome to GovLoop Insights Issue of the Week with Chris Dorobek… where each week, our goal is to find an issue — a person — an idea — then helped define the past 7-days… and we work to find an issue that will also will have an impact on the days, weeks and months ahead.Read… Read more »