Fascinating story on NPR about the “trust” hormone (oxytocin) and one researcher’s findings that trust in the government is related to the amount of stress someone feels at the time. According to the study, trust in the government is at an all time low because of the stress people feel due to the recession. WhenRead… Read more »
Is Gov 2.0 to Web 2.0 as SOA is to Web Services? Gov 2.0 certainly has roots in and relies on Web 2.0 to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. So from a technology perspective it is easy to think of Gov.20 as just a particular implementation ofRead… Read more »
An email yesterday from the Sunlight Foundation begins like this: Here’s the deal, friends: There is going to be more money in this election year than any mid-term election in history. Whether you think this is good or bad, the Supreme Court made their decision in January, and that’s just the way it is. TheRead… Read more »
Next week is Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW) and GovLoop is teaming up with the Partnership for Public Service to promote PSRW by running a special series called “Meet the Government Mascot.” Each day we’ve been introducing you to a new mascot, then we’ll run a contest on May 6-8 where you can vote forRead… Read more »
Dipl.-Jur. Felix Zimmermann of kjur.de has posted jurMeta – New Metadata Initiative for Legal Documents, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. Mr. Zimmermann’s post describes jurMeta, an innovative new metadata standard — still in development — for German-language legal resources. He relates how he and hisRead… Read more »
Happy Friday! In a not-so-subtle jab at bureaucratic language often found in U.S. Code or the Federal Register (“in witness thereof,” “notwithstanding” and “directive,” among other classics), the Center for Plain Language awarded its National ClearMark Awards on Thursday for the best and worst examples of language in government, business and the nonprofit community. TheRead… Read more »
poems. I had written ‘poets’ but then I realized that there are likely some poets out there, and artists too. That sounds ridiculous though, doesn’t it? We have to stay neutral being government and all.
To a crowd of over 500 largely government web development managers and public relations professionals, panelist Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, Macon Phillips, Special Assistant to the President and White House Director of New Media, and GSA Office of Citizen Services Associate Administrator David McClure, spoke to the GSA’s Web Developer Management University audienceRead… Read more »
Peter Kinnaird (a member of our community), Mario Romero, and Professor Gregory Abowd, all of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, have posted Connect 2 Congress: Visual Analytics for Civic Oversight, a paper presented at CHI 2010: The 28th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held 10-15 April 2010, in Atlanta,Read… Read more »
Nation’s Largest Federal Employees Union Reaches Quarter Million Mark (WASHINGTON)—The American Federation of Government Employees, the nation’s largest federal and D.C. employee union representing more than 600,000 government workers, today announced that it passed the quarter of a million mark in dues paying members. AFGE represents federal employees in 75 agencies including the Department ofRead… Read more »