GovLoop Member of the Week – Mary Davie, GSA’s Assistant Commissioner, Office of Assisted Acquisition Services, Federal Acquisition Service

When I am asked for best practice examples of how GovLoop is accelerating knowledge exchange and breaking down traditional barriers that hinder interagency communication, I immediately cite Mary Davie. A few months ago, Mary launched the Acquisition 2.0 group with the following comment: “Would love to hear from gov and industry – best practices andRead… Read more »

White House Public Discussions on OpenGov – June 9

Open Government Discussions: Transparency Principles (Noveck) – Background – Discussion Transparency Governance (Noveck) – Background – Discussion Open Government Operations (Sturm) – Discussion Data Transparency via Data.gov (Kundra) – Discussion

Interesting interview with IT exec

Check out Federal Government IT’s interview with Alan Balutis, an IT exec with 27 years of experience in government. You will get his view on what government needs to do to embrace 2.0 and deal with other pressing cybersecurity issues. Just go to www.fiercegovernmentit.com for an interesting interview.

Social Networking

Does anyone have information on Government and Social Networking (how they plan to use it to get information out there, particularly for taxpayers)?

KnowItAll_Tweets 06.08.09

Good morning, I will continue trying to eliminate all of the RT’s and re-posts. If I miss some, please forgive me. Caroline Jerry_Bio: @govloop Department of the Army allows access to Facebook & Twitter from BEHIND .mil firewalls. Still no access to govloop #govloop #gov20 21 minutes ago from HootSuite • Reply • View TweetRead… Read more »

Federal News Aggregator

Govdelivery, GovDelivery, is a service that offers the public a way to sign up for news/announcements from various government entities. But, though it is free for the public, the government entitites must pay for the service so not all are available through them. Allan Eustis (NIST-USMS) recently found another website that aggregates government news, GovFresh,Read… Read more »

Here’s Your Chance to Shine: Government 2.0 Expo and Showcase

Have you done something to help usher in the era of Government 2.0 and want to show it off? Have you changed the culture of your organization from one that hoards information to one that openly shares and collaborates with each other? Are you tired of toiling in obscurity while you see the same storiesRead… Read more »

Government 2.0, Social Media and the New Stockholm Syndrome

Everything old is new again, and with innovative technological advances granting the public greater access to government, businesses and the community, the rules of traditional social psychology still apply. As users tap into a new era of transparency and direct dialogue, it is important to consider that more access does not always lead to empowermentRead… Read more »

Are service contracts with the federal government on a decline?

Currently, about 40% of all government contractors’ work is in providing services. Many in the government have complained over the years that contractors get mission-critical jobs that should be inherently government employee work. With the new administration, the movement is to get those positions out of the contractors’ hands, back to the federal government. IRead… Read more »

Federal Eye: More Storm Clouds for FAA and Weather Service?

By Ed O’Keefe and Steve Vogel The National Weather Service today finally got around to delivering those long-anticipated recommendations on changing the FAA’s use of government meteorologists at its Air Route Traffic Control Centers. The basic plan calls for downsizing the 20 National Weather Service Center Weather Service Units (or CWSUs for short), to justRead… Read more »

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