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Are Public Servants Like Olympians?

At some point in the last 10 days (or if you’re like me, for *most* of the last 10 days), you’ve likely tuned in to the Olympic Games. From volleyball to swimming to track and field and beyond, you and I have had a chance to cheer on fellow Americans who strive to be theRead… Read more »

Making telework work at PTO and why the transition to Networx’s has been a BIG challenge

On today’s program Telework — many organizations talk about it. One has done it — and in a big way. It’s the Patent and Trademark Office. And an amazing statistic for you — more than 8,000 people at PTO are eligible to telework. Of those, more than 80 percent of them actually do it. We’reRead… Read more »

Networx — why the transition has been an uphill climb

Networx — it is the big federal telecommunications contract. Of course, the federal government spends big bucks on telecommunications services. In fiscal 2007, agencies spent some $960 million on telecom services, according to the Government Accountability Office and that was 2007. Back in 2007, GSA awarded a new contract for federal telecommunications services — Networx,Read… Read more »

The Patent and Trademark Office TELEWORK’S — to the tune of 80% — how did they do it?

Telework — let’s be honest, it feels like we have been talking about it for years and it feels like scant progress is made each year. That may be true for many organizations, but for the Patent and Trademark Office, they are widely recognized as the telework leader across government. At PTO, more than 8,000Read… Read more »

SQL Injection Attacks Skyrocket, Microsoft Attack Surface Analyzer Released and more

General Alexander asked for lawmakers to pass the cybersecurity act to better protect our networks. SQL Injection attacks rose 69% in Q2 according to cloud provider, FireHost. They saw almost 470k attacks in this quarter (as opposed to 277k attacks in Q1. The senior security engineer believes this is due to the lack of securityRead… Read more »

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Going for Gold — How Olympians can teach us about leadership and your weekend reads!

Welcome to GovLoop InsightsIssue 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. And,Read… Read more »

Navigating the Digital Government Roadmap

GovLoop Guide to Technology Navigating the Digital Government Roadmap 10 Benefits of Cloud Computing What are 10 Benefits of Cloud Computing? From The Sunlight Foundation 33 Tips for Open Data Policies Data Driven Decisions Are You Using the Right Data Digital Gov Infographic Timeline of the Digital Gov Strategy // // Tweet // The GovLoopRead… Read more »

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Podcast: Design Beyond the Past

Tune-in to Design Beyond the Past: people, paper and city government. In this podcast 2012 CfA Fellow Alicia Rouault comments on the challenges facing city governments in introducing some “Bay Area” innovation. “While cities have the will to innovate, legacy systems are holding them back.” – Alicia Rouault Design Beyond the Past by Code forRead… Read more »

OPM goes the distance on innovation find out how they did it — here’s a hint the Luma Institute

On today’s program The Office of Personnel Management has made great strides with innovation — that according to feds themselves. How did they do it? You hear from OPM’s Matt Collier. He spoke at GovLoop’s Next Generation of Government Training Summit, and you’ll hear from him. Click here for the full recap. And we’ll hearRead… Read more »

OPM rises in the Innovation Index — find out how they did it

The Office of Personnel Management has been making some real progress in terms on innovation. In fact they are the only agency to rise up the ranks of the Partnership for Public Service’s Innovation Index. (Listen to our interview with Tom Fox about the Innovation Index here.) But how did they do it? Matt CollierRead… Read more »