Can’t believe we are only 10 days out from our 2nd annual GovLoop/YGL Next Generation of Government Summit. Behind the scene, we’ve been cranking away on everything from brainstorming an awesome ideation game with IDEO, coordinating our Funniest Fed comedic performance, studying which bean bag chairs to bring in, getting written up in Governing magazine,Read… Read more »
Deltek Sr. Analyst Chris Cotner reports. This is part two of a two-part series on INPUT’s 10-year state budget projections. As mentioned in part one of this series, the news regarding state financials has not been positive for a while. FY 2012 is looking like one of the worst (in terms of a decrease inRead… Read more »
Deltek Sr. Analyst Chris Cotner reports. This is part one of a two-part series on INPUT’s 10-year state budget projections. The news for state and local government simply has not been good this year. Record government employee layoffs are reported across the country. Wisconsin rioted. Minnesota is currently not functioning as a government. California hadRead… Read more »
Military cyber defenders face a tough challenge. Many of them have been trained in warfighting specialties like aviation, infantry, amphibious operations, submarine warfare etc, then one day they wake up with orders to a unit with operational cyber defense responsibilities. I’ve seen great champions from these disciplines, including F-14 pilots and RIOs, make fantastic contributionsRead… Read more »
Finance Director Our client, a local government entity in the Oakland,CA area is looking for an Interim Finance Director with a strongbackground in redevelopment, bond financing and restructuring, dealing withnegative cash situations, and developing long term fiscal recovery plans. In this position you will also be responsible for planning, organizing, anddirecting the operations of aRead… Read more »
[CIO] Vivek Kundra’s Tips for Smarter Government “Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra delivered [these] during testimony before a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee [on Thursday]“ Tips on Improving Government Websites On Tuesday, the White House held a video Q & A about Improving Federal Websites. BUT, there are takeaways and ideasRead… Read more »
In this video ClearedJobs.Net’s HR Specialist Patra Frame talks about the importance of military personnel using the transition services that are available to them when planning their transition to the civilian work world. Many others have traveled this road before so learn from their mistakes, don’t repeat them. It’s helpful to talk to folks whoRead… Read more »
Ed Walters, Esq., of FastCase has posted Tear Down This (Pay)Wall: The End of Private Copyright in Public Statutes, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Mr. Walters describes the extent to which U.S. state governments and for-profit legal publishers assert copyright in U.S.Read… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Why, Yes, We Do Have a Web Site for That. As one of his parting gifts, Vivek Kundra has given Americans a complete listing of all 1,759 federal government Web sites, including the site detailing the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, http://www.papahanaumokuakea.gov, which is pronounced pretty much exactly as it’s spelled. Listen. Is ItRead… Read more »
Here are five quick tips on how to manage your social graph as a public servant: 1. Pro-actively disclose Generally speaking it is good practice to tell your employer (or prospective employer) of any activity that is at the periphery of but related to your official activities. For public servants I think that runs theRead… Read more »