We highlighted crisis communications a couple of weeks ago when we featured crisis communications expert Dr. Joe Trahan and his “go ugly early” approach. Crisis communications will be a hot topic at next week’s NAGC Communications School. I’m really interested to hear from others on how they distribute and redistribute tasks during a crisis. AtRead… Read more »
On our program today We’ve been talking a lot about the Obama administration’s Digital Government Strategy in part because technology is really chainging how people deal with government. But it’s also important to get insights about how feasible this strategy actually is. Will it work? Alan Balutis has been there and done it, both inRead… Read more »
Best Places to Work in Government 2011 The Best Places to Work to Work in the Federal Government® rankings are the most comprehensive and authoritative rating and analysis of employee satisfaction and commitment in the federal government. The 2011 rankings are the sixth edition of this ongoing series, following the 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 andRead… Read more »
This is the seventh and final post in our GovLoop May Blog series, exploring how to break down silos in government. Our first post focused on the “trusted leader” and the traits required for leadership across government. Our second post explored collaboration strategies on your team. Last week, we looked out to the future, andRead… Read more »
Surgeon General’s Video Contest: Tobacco—I’m Not Buying It winners announced. Yesterday, Dr. Regina Benjamin (U.S. Surgeon General) announced and chatted live with contest winners on Twitter. There were many great submissions, and we thank all of the young Americans who took part in the contest to help make the next generation tobacco free. Learn moreRead… Read more »
Improving citizen interaction with government is a key goal of the White House’s Digital Management Strategy. The approach is to use modern, open source approaches to handling data and content. Chris Dorobek of the DorobekINSIDER spoke with Alan Balutis, senior director of Cisco’s Business Solutions Group about digital government. The goals laid out in theRead… Read more »
As we’re all aware, e-Government is an emerging opportunity of epic proportions. Between the former USCTO Aneesh Chopra’s open data agenda, current USCTO Todd Park’s doubling down of this agenda, USCIO Steve VanRoekel’s Shared Services Strategy, and a myriad of other new initiatives calling all innovation in focused industries we will soon see rapid growthRead… Read more »
This week I had the chance to sit in a webinar, The Rise of Social Government, which was presented by the Fels Institute and sponsored by GovDelivery. The webinar previewed a report that will be released shortly on how local governments are using social media. I thought it was a fascinating discussion; the slides andRead… Read more »
The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Thursday the 31st of May, 2012 Security and Information Sharing are getting an upgrade in three new House’s bills. Federal News Radio says the Secure Borders Act gives the Homeland Security Department five years to gain what it calls operational control of the border with Mexico. TheRead… Read more »
How did sheep solve a problem for our agency in creating the USDA OCIO’s brochure? It’s simple, really.