All our photos from NextGen12 can be seen here. Some of the best are below, taken by Govlooper Kanika Tolver: Steve Ressler emceed many of the sessions, rocking the “Field Notebook” used by conference participants to keep track of which of the awesome session they wanted to check out next. Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of wordpress:Read… Read more »
Today’s lunch session featured, Matt Mullenweg, Founder, WordPress & Successful Young Entrepreneur and Jon Carson, Director of the Office of Public Engagement, White House. Matt kicked of the session by stating, “Do not listen when people say this cannot be done,” using his experience at WordPress. Matt mentioned how powerful the internet age has become,Read… Read more »
The Mongols are an extremely violent motorcycle gang in Los Angeles organized over 30 years ago. John Torres, Deputy Assistant Director, Headquarters, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, discussed leadership lessons learned from two undercover cases involving the gang. In 2001, Billy Queen, an AFT agent infiltrated the Mongols successfully for the first timeRead… Read more »
For the next generation of government leaders, Nick Charney has several strategies to give your writing edge. And why should you care? According to him, “The ability to affectively communicate information is what puts you above everyone else.” With left-brain, creative skills of increasing importance in our economy, what differentiates you is the ability toRead… Read more »
Making decisions is never easy — and some might argue that it is even more challenging today because things change SO quickly. How do you make the best decisions? That is one of the issues we’ll be talking about later this month at the Next Generation of Government Training Summit taking place July 26-27 hereRead… Read more »
The first panel for day two of the Next Generation of Government was called, How to Drive Big Change in Government. The session abstract reads, “We all want to make a big impact on hard problems but big change in government is tough. In this session, we will talk to senior leaders about how toRead… Read more »
Leveraging Social Media Skills Social media has come a long way within government agencies. Two years ago, 55 percent of agencies blocked social media sites and that is down to 19 percent today with some room for improvement. This session provided an overview of the value of digital media, its uses, trends, tips and aRead… Read more »
Mayor Morse is a 23-year-old Mayor from Holyoke, Massachusetts. Morse was born and raised in Holyoke, which is in Western Massachusetts, just outside of Springfield. Morse stated that the city has about 2,000 employees. Mayor Morse was the first in his family to go to college, and graduated from Brown University in 2011. Mayor MorseRead… Read more »
The participants for the lightning speakers came from a competition that took place on GovLoop, each participate had 5 minutes to talk about their job and the cool initiatives they are working on. “Nature 3.0 – Using Technology to Connect People with nature” Michael Gale, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Michael Gale of US FishRead… Read more »
We’re winding down Day 1 of the Next Generation of Government Summit, but we got a lot of exciting speakers coming up in our closing session. Don’t forget you can check us out live at govloop.com. I’d highly recommend you tune in for the closing sessions. Here is the lineup: Lightning Speakers “Nature 3.0 –Read… Read more »