Guest post by Charles Huang (@1CharlesH), mentor at DDD and Blueprint Health. It is an exciting time to be an entrepreneur these days. President Obama earlier this year launched a Startup America initiative to promote entrepreneurship in America, citing the need for the US to maintain its competitiveness in international business through tech innovation andRead… Read more »
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Fresh Look at IT Program Manager Competencies
In all the hype about new technology, we often forget to talk about what government IT is mostly about – that’s project management. It’s about leading projects to solve problems and it’s pretty tough. Was cool to see OPM deliver the new competency program for IT program managers. The hardest part is defining what makesRead… Read more »
Change Management Communications Plan Tactics
As a follow-up to my previous blog where we chatted about the components of a Change Management (CM) Communications plan, this blog focuses on the specific tactics to utilize when implementing the plan. To get a better sense of how to create the plan, please quickly review my previous blog “Creating the Change Management CommunicationsRead… Read more »
Live Blogging the 2011 Next Generation of Government Summit: Luncheon Keynote (Day 1)
12:50 p.m. Talk is over. Q and A time. Thanks for reading. 12:30 p.m. More from Patrick: Digital Government: Social media and civic engagement. E/M/T commerce. Shared/consolidated services. Apps (See/click/fix). Entrepreneurial. “Are you a climber or a coaster?” The one word you should know going forward: Synchronicity. What we’re doing here. Your Career Brand: HaveRead… Read more »
5 Things Harry Potter Can Teach Us About Government Contracting
I originally posted this on GovWin for the release of Harry Potter, and realized a lot of this still connects to federal employees as well. For the broad information that does relate to just contractors, it will at least provide some insight from our side. As J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard franchise prepares to close withRead… Read more »
Training by Toastmasters?
This is both a training and a communication topic. A single question this time, but with a big impact and controversy. The question had to come up sooner or later–one that I was afraid I’d have to answer as a trainer and a speaker. Why Toastmasters, a great international organization that helps people learn publicRead… Read more »
Gen “Y Not?” – Building the Next Generation of Government
If you’re interested in this topic, please consider attending our Next Generation of Government Summit on July 28-29 in Washington, DC, where emerging leaders and thinkers will convene to chart the future course of government. ***************************************************************************************************************************************** In another post, I captured the proceedings of an International Symposium which is discussing “Generation Y and Public Management:Read… Read more »
Friday Fab Five: Storytime, Trusting Your Gut, and Why You Suck at Networking
Happy Friday, everyone! You know what time it is. It’s time for the… Friday Fab 5! That special part of the week when we take a look back at a few of the awesome blogs, forums, quotes, groups, and members here on GovLoop. If you think they’re awesome too, go ahead and congratulate them (linksRead… Read more »
Meet the 2011 CfA Interns!
We’re so excited to have a bunch of new faces in the office: summer interns! Last week, over a dozen new recruits joined Code for America to work on projects ranging from design and code to policy and outreach — thanks in no small part to the support of Google Summer of Code and theRead… Read more »
The digital engagement game
At the introduction to digital engagement workshop we ran this week, I debuted the digital engagement game. It’s a workshop exercise that’s an expansion of my version of David Wilcox‘s social media game, which in turn has been developed into the Social by Social game. The original game featured a pack of cards detailing variousRead… Read more »