The outgoing Senate-confirmed appointees of President George W. Bush shared their insights in a survey conducted by the National Academy of Public Administration and the Partnership for Public Service during September 2008. In general, this was a seasoned group with a significant amount of federal experience prior to taking their positions, and many of themRead… Read more »
With the President Obama’s submission of his budget details last week, agencies are now making their budget justification documents available to the public. Find links to the FY 2010 administration’s proposal and agencies jusitifications; as well as archived documents for fiscal years 2008 and 2009 on the AABPA website. For more insight into budgeting andRead… Read more »
In the past few weeks, the General Services Administration (GSA) has signed Terms of Service (TOS) agreements with a number of new media providers. The agreements signed by GSA were negotiated with the assistance of a number of federal agencies. The goal was to arrive at a TOS federal agencies would be comfortable enough withRead… Read more »
In working with government agencies to improve and refine their digital marketing and communications efforts, what I find is that everyone is primarily interested in the channel – Is that up on the Web site? Did you tweet that out? Did you send a text message on that? Don’t get me wrong, the channel youRead… Read more »
Okay, I’m taking Steve’s advice and copy/pasting from my wordpress blog…. But first, little background: The OSU Open Source Lab has been producing a non-profit Government Open Source Conference on the west coast since 2005. Last fall Viveck Kundra and Aneesh Chopra were two of our keynotes. We’ve been asked to bring this to theRead… Read more »
Republished from eGovAU. Beth Noveck, director of President Obama’s open government initiative, said in a recent essay, Our institutions of governance are characterized by a longstanding culture of professionalism in which bureaucrats – not citizens – are the experts. Until recently, we have viewed this arrangement as legitimate because we have not practically been ableRead… Read more »
Originally published here I like Twitter, I think it, and other micro-blogging services have a lot to offer to the Local Government sector and could form a foundational plank of the whole LocGov2.0 sector. However, Twitter in Australia has a problem. It’s not about the lack of Social Media policies in Local Government, it’s notRead… Read more »
As the government community awakens to the value of social networking, they will reward, hire, promote people who can help them use social media to build relationships with clients, constituents, the public. Those who have used social media to develop their personal brand will become the all-stars. You are what you do. Karl Marx saysRead… Read more »
On Saturday, May 30th, at the National Vietnam War Museum, near Mineral Wells, Texas, a beautiful scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Wall) will be dedicated in it’s permanent home, after traveling around the country for the last few years. . Whenever I am in DC, I always find time to visit the originalRead… Read more »
President Obama’s nominee to serve as Census director said he would rather resign than permit politics to interfere with the census, according to written responses to questions submitted by lawmakers in advance of his confirmation hearing. Asked about potential political interference, Robert Groves stated that any such outside involvement would cause long-term damage to theRead… Read more »