A few years ago it was made public that Karl Rove, President George W. Bush’s political adviser, and Vice-President Dick Cheney were using a political party’s email system for work related communication instead of their official government accounts. A political party is under no obligation by law to archive its emails for posterity. This broughtRead… Read more »
As part of a Google fellowship that I received on behalf of Public Performance Systems, I spent the last two days at the Personal Democracy Forum up in New York. I’ll finish up our discussion on a Performance Management Framework in the next few days but I wanted to first report on a number ofRead… Read more »
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has tapped three Census Bureau veterans to serve as part-time advisers on operational, management and contracting issues while President Obama’s nominee to serve as Census director awaits a full Senate confirmation vote. The trio includes Dr. Kenneth Prewitt, who served as bureau director from 1998 to 2001 and was widely believedRead… Read more »
Participation Camp was organized to provide the spark for an explosion of sharing, experimentation, and collaboration around this question: Democracy is a game in which we all make the rules. How do we make this serious game more inclusive, more fair, and more fun? Participation Camp Website Here’s the Twitter-related stats followed by the TwitterRead… Read more »
AABPA is pleased to announce that it is once again offering a specialized education program for summer interns interested in pursuing a career in budgeting. The program will provide a forum for interns to learn from specialists outside the offices in which they work, and from career counselors who can provide realistic appraisals of careerRead… Read more »
Last week’s poll was how focused is your organization on implementing Gov 2.0. The results came in as: 0.0% #1 Focus 28.6% Major Goal 37.1% Minor Push 34.3% No Effort At All Once again the results were interesting. Interesting that no one has it as the #1 goal. But that makes sense as Gov 2.0Read… Read more »
Good morning! I am still a little behind, but I’m begging for your mercy …;) I have trouble deciding how to handle FollowFriday. I have been screening it out entirely due to space constraints, but we were missing some great contacts. So today, I am trying something new. I tried to leave the first mentionRead… Read more »
Yes, 06.25.2009 … I am running a bit behind. What with Farrah and Michael and Cap and Trade … what’s a girl to do? Oh, and I have a suggestion for our next GovLoop Project of the Week: Design a comprehensive, fool-proof way to rid my roses of Japanese Beetles … I can not tellRead… Read more »
EIG on July 20th is almost sold out with over 300 federal managers expected to see John Berry and other thought leaders discuss the impact of the new administration on agency operations. Hear insights on how to adapt to the new programs and policies while also continuing to drive performance and maintain staff loyalty. ForRead… Read more »
Does anyone know this site and whom manages it? http://www.accountability.wa.gov/ My performance monitoring teams likes the site and I was hoping that I could get more information.