Job satisfaction has decreased since the beginning of the recession in 2008. According to Gallup polls U.S. workers have reported a decrease in job satisfaction. The Gallup-Healthways Work Environment Index score has dropped from 51.3 on January 1, 2008 to 47.5 on June 1, 2011. The Index includes four items: job satisfaction, ability to useRead… Read more »
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 »
Are you working on a Gov 2.0 idea, Open Gov idea or have an idea for a product or service to improve government? Than you might be interested in the Startup Beach House! The Startup Beach House originated from the love and passion we have for startups, entrepreneurship and the awesome community surrounding these ideas.Read… Read more »
Chris Dorobek recently interviewed David Behen, the Chief Information Officer at Michigan’s Department of Technology, Management and Budget on the DorobekINSIDER. I’ve been following discussions on GovLoop over the past several months on whether government should fund innovation initiatives and how it could do so during tough fiscal conditions, so I was really interested inRead… 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 »
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Are open standards a closed barrier? | Government Digital Service – “Fresh out of a roundtable discussion on the Open Standards: Open Opportunities consultation, Linda Humphries discusses whether open can really mean closed.” eParticipation needs to be carefully integrated into the complex world of existingRead… 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 »