Last month, we put out a call for our eighth round of GovLoop Featured Bloggers – and you responded with amazing enthusiasm. People from all walks of government and industry life sent in great ideas for posts, about everything from technology challenges in city government to using Twitter to monitor food safety in your city…. Read more »
In search and rescue, as in business, people are the most valuable asset. A good leader puts people first and cares about each team member.
What can federal, state, and local governments do to recruit millennials and ensure their missions are carried out with the nation’s top young talent?
Today, agencies have every reason to think “Cloud First.” By embracing the cloud and everything it has to offer, they immediately reap the rewards of budget savings, boosted efficiencies and heightened security.
Simplifying language while preserving the technical underpinnings of a message can be a challenge — especially when you get pushback from your more technically-minded colleagues. Here are some things to emphasize to make sure plain language stays alive and well at your agency.
Therapy dogs in government can help in a variety of ways.
The government is fighting a losing battle for the war on talent. Less than half of the federal workforce expresses confidence in the government’s ability to recruit people with the “right skills.”
Without leadership’s proactive, strategic support and guidance, any tech investment into knowledge-sharing will amount to very little. Fortunately, this needed support is taking hold here within the corridors of the Nation’s Capital.
Teamwork. It’s a powerful word that is overused but seldom fully utilized.
In this post, I hope to acclimate you to a few of the resources that are housed at PlainLanguage.gov so that you will learn to integrate the guidance into your own work as well as to navigate the site on your own.