Next week is Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW) and GovLoop is teaming up with the Partnership for Public Service to promote PSRW by running a special series called “Meet the Government Mascot.” Each day we’ve been introducing you to a new mascot, then we’ll run a contest on May 6-8 where you can vote forRead… Read more »
Last week we did a pretty cool poll with our partner HP on “Does the Government Want More IT?” Check out the results…Pretty fascinating. Does the Government Want More Green IT? View more documents from GovLoop. An interesting note – I’m one of those teleworkers who has gotten in a bad habit of not poweringRead… Read more »
We should just dismantle the government. We don’t trust the people who work in government. We don’t believe that they are committed to being good stewards of our tax money. And we generally feel as if they are incompetent and incapable of performing at levels of excellence that would in any way allow us toRead… Read more »
Originally published by John Kamensky of the The IBM Center for Government on 04/12/2010 While Jonathan Breul is attending the IRMCO Conference in Cambridge, Maryland, I’m attending the annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration in San Jose, California. I understand it’s sunny in Cambridge. . . it’s rainy in San Jose! Today,Read… Read more »
I’m writing a little series on Top 5s on various topics – I encourage you to write yours. There’s lots of key documents that form a government agency’s IT operations. Here’s my “Top 5”: 1 – IT Strategic Plan – every agency needs one. Sometimes they are shelf-ware, sometimes valuable. But they set the visionRead… Read more »
Great document by NASCIO on protecting mobile devices. Nascio Security At The Edge View more documents from GovLoop. Favorite
As we mentioned yesterday, we are launching a GovLoop Advisory Board to help us make GovLoop more awesome. More info yesterday First up yesterday was GL Board Member Craig Newmark Up on Day 2 is: Bill Bott, Former Deputy CIO, State of Missouri GovLoop Profile Why Government… I believe that at it’s core the workRead… Read more »
Local Government People lump local government into one big group. But obviously it is different to be a rockstar one-person IT shop like Dustin in Manor, TX Than X,000+ CIO shops in New York City. When people talk about how local government can be more innovative, I believe that is somewhat true. But it isRead… Read more »
Great day at CityCamp…over 100 campers of all types talking interesting topics from data to journalism to visualization to cultural changes in government. After a thrilling day, a great dinner was held…personally I met fascinating people from Seattle to DC…from non-profits, for-profits, gov’t agencies…large and small…. See this great video… I’m excited for day 2Read… Read more »
Pretty interesting article on pay-for-performance. What is your take? How important is pay-for-performance? Part of my hypothesis is that “private sector” does not have a perfect pay system themself. Outside of certain roles like sales, lots of jobs have hard time measuring concrete performance and negotiations is truly what makes higher salaries (not performance). OutgoingRead… Read more »