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It was another week on Wall Street where the stock indices started in the lower left corner of the chart, and finished in the upper right.  One of the most frustrating, unloved rallies continues and probably won't end until more investors feel the love.







Here are the up to date TSP fund returns through May 17.  …

Last week, GovLoop and Esri hosted a GIS meet up, GovLoop & Esri MeetUp: Story Maps, the presentations featured Chris Liedel, President of Smithsonian Ventures and Lee Bock and Stephen Sylvia, who provided insights on how to leverage Story Maps templates.

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I n order to be a great leader you have to be agile and open. Those are two things that don't lend themselves naturally to the Defense Department. The DoD is known for it's hierarchical culture, but that is changing, because the nature of war is changing. Now the DoD is facing opponents without…

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows,…

Guest blogger Jack Horan, Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP

Many factors go into a decision of whether to protest after a contractor finds out it was not successful in winning an order or contract:

• Did the agency make a mistake?
• How strong is my evidence?
• Did the mistake affect the award decision?
• How much will a protest cost?
• Will a protest affect my…

The May 22^nd GSA Business Roundtable is a Myth-Busters event bringing together procurement professionals and senior executives from GSA and its industry partners for a dialogue focusing on Acting Administrator Dan Tangherlini’s new mission statement and six priorities.  The mission statement and priorities can be found …

This is the urban century. Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. By the middle of the century more than two thirds of us will. But such growth comes with corresponding challenges. Municipal governments are facing challenges of increasing complexity, including climate change and the need for sustainable, resilient and low carbon…

There’s an old adage that an unhappy customer will tell ten people about the bad service they have received. If that was ever true, it is startling how quickly and comprehensively it is untrue now.

Here’s a little story unfolding in front of our eyes. The starting point is Helen Lippell being on the receiving end of a poor experience:

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In one form or another, data centers have been at the core of the federal government’s technology infrastructure for more than 100 years. The government’s interest in computers was sparked years before the first machines were ready for widespread use, and data centers are now vital to most agencies’ daily operations.

This infographic originally appeared on…

If your department or agency isn't already on Twitter, you may be considering how and whether to get started.  If you're new to the Twitterverse, it can be a bit intimidating, particularly when navigating Section 508 accessibility concerns for people with disabilities.

In a recent issue of The Public Manager, web and social media coordinator Scott Horvath at USGS set out some simple, easy to adopt pointers for posting accessible Twitter content. 

For the full…

Guest Post by Darren Caveney, co-creator of comms2point0 and Vice Chair of LGcomms

Email? Send them an email? But, hasn’t the world all shifted across to social media, I hear you cry?

Well yes and no. A whopping 94% of UK adults…

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What is the Knope of the Week? It is ELGL’s way of recognizing an individual or group of individuals who have excelled in promoting the public sector. Recipients may come from the public or private sector and are nominated by ELGL members. Recipients receive an incredible amount of recognition and prizes that we are not at liberty to disclose. The storied history of the award dates back to 2012.

Sean Stegall…

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

This week: Superlatives! Big ideas! Great Quotes! Newest releases!

• The USDA has released an API for developers to…