Good morning. We usually only post a new blog on govloop.com on Monday’s, but I thought this commentary might be of interest to some of you. We will discuss account returns, how they are calculated, and why your account may not have rebounded as much as you might have expected after last week’s big rally….Read… Read more »
The Obama-Biden Transition Project has earned $1,170,937.44 since it began accepting donations on Nov. 15 and among the 1,776 people that have donated, 35 are federal employees or members of the military. They have donated $5,925 basically to help their next boss, Barack Obama, prepare for his new job. All appear to be rank-and-file typesRead… Read more »
I Introduction Is there anything called e-civil service or electronic civil service? If so, what is it? How does it differ from the traditional civil service? How can it keep pace with technological developments? What role does it have in Government 2.0? Is there any conflict between old conduct rules for the civil servants andRead… Read more »
As the world searches for an answer to reducing the use of fossil fuels, cities are starting to look to the personal rapid transit (PRT) system as a potential solution. Lately, MISTER, a Polish-based company, has gained increasing notice for their innovative PRT system. MISTER is an acronym for Metropolitan Individual System of Transportation onRead… Read more »
Good morning. I have written my usual daily market commentary on TSPtalk.com, which I have been posting here on GovLoop.com on Mondays – but while I was re-reading it, I realized that it may not be the best article for anyone who may be new to trying to grasp the task of managing their ownRead… Read more »
December 8-11 2008 / Washington DC (link) “The hottest trends in e-Learning are the use of social networks and other collaborative tools, and the explosion of Immersive Learning Simulations (ILS) and Serious Games. These technologies offer huge potentials, but also thorny challenges, for achieving new levels of learner engagement, collaboration and performance improvement. But nowRead… Read more »
Welcome to our Monday morning TSP / market commentary: (Updated daily at TSP Talk) Stocks could not follow-through on Friday after Thursday’s big reversal day, as the Dow gave back 338 of Thursday’s 553-point gain. The TSP stock funds dropped between 4% and 5.6%, which is really amazing, but quite routine lately. If there isRead… Read more »
A new presidential administration invokes plenty of great traditions and events, including the activity surrounding a transition and inauguration. Then there are all the other routine Washington occurrences, such as the State of the Union, confirmation hearings and the budget process. While other Post colleagues handle the hard news from those big events, The EyeRead… Read more »
No matter which side of the political fence you’re on, these books should prove engaging and enlightening, not to mention pertinent to our time. (If you are uber pro-Bush then you might enjoy the Fareed Zakaria and Reza Aslan books more than the more lefty works). This is just a small collection of some thatRead… Read more »
Barack Obama’s Agenda for E-governance: Open Government is Its Main Plank But What About the Roadblocks? by Dr D.C.Misra* All eyes are on the U.S.President-elect Barack Obama, who will assume the charge of his office on January 20, 2009. He has also set an ambitious agenda for e-governance. Obama has very successfully used information technologyRead… Read more »