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Mary Davie Project of the Week - What's Your Agency's Carbon Footprint?

The General Services Administration has recently launched a Carbon Footprint and Green Procurement Tool to assist agencies in managing their GHGs as required by Executive Order (EO) 13514

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Added by Mary Davie on August 3, 2010 at 9:00am — 4 Comments

Naomi A. Williams GovLoop Project of the Week - HealthCare.gov


HealthCare.gov launched on June 30, 2010. It's a website that puts the power back into the citizens hands by providing them the access of information right at their fingertips.

"It’s the first website to collec… Continue

Added by Naomi A. Williams on July 28, 2010 at 5:00am — 2 Comments

Dr. GovLoop Project of the Week: National Veterans Wheelchair Games


Two weeks ago, as America celebrated its hard-fought freedom on the Fourth of July, hundreds of U.S. military veterans gathered in Denver, CO, fo
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Added by Dr. GovLoop on July 19, 2010 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Andrew Krzmarzick Project of the Week: Austin's Crowd-sourced City Budget

This past week, while I was in Texas, I learned that the City of Austin has launched an innovative online tool for the public to provide comment about their 2010-2011 Budget. Community me
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Added by Andrew Krzmarzick on June 15, 2010 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Naomi A. Williams GovLoop Project of the Week - U.S. Public Service Academy

I recently ran across something really interesting movement and had to share it with the GovLoop community. It shows how important public service is and how people are rallying around the idea training individuals to be the best public servants they can be.

"The U.S. Public Service Academy will be an undergraduate institution devoted to developing civilian leaders for the public sector. Modeled on t… Continue

Added by Naomi A. Williams on May 26, 2010 at 5:00am — 1 Comment

Dr. GovLoop Project of the Week: Gov2Social

Throughout the year, GovLoop will be featuring projects and people from among our 2010 Partners. This week's Project of the Week is brought to you by Microsoft, sponsors of our Cloud Computing Topics Page, making it easier for you to find content on that key subject. The also host a great group called "Microsoft Product

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Added by Dr. GovLoop on April 27, 2010 at 10:30am — 8 Comments

Mary Davie Project of the Week - Young Acquisition Professionals New Mentoring Program

We all have one or more people we can point to over our lives who have made an impression on us or provided help, guidance or support in some way. How would things be different for you if you didn't have this support or the opportunities that resulted? I for one am grateful for the people throughout my life who have

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Added by Mary Davie on April 16, 2010 at 4:07pm — 6 Comments

Andrew Krzmarzick Project of the Week: YOUmedia (Chicago Public Library)

It's National Library Week and in honor of that event, I posted another blog entitled "Libraries as Linchpins to #Gov20 and #OpenGov." In addition, I wanted to highlight a sweet project in Chicago that uses libraries as connection point for kids to access the web, inspiring collaboration and creativity. Here's a video and more info straight from their Abo… Continue

Added by Andrew Krzmarzick on April 16, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

Naomi A. Williams Project of the Week: The New Face of EPA

A special thanks to Jeffrey Levy, Director of Web Communications for Office of Public Affairs at
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for participating in this weeks GovLoop Project of the Week.


1. What prompted this redesign?

We constantly assess our home page, so this is the next cycle. Our last home page redesign was 18 months ago.

In particular, we realized the home page had become cluttered, so we wanted to make… Continue

Added by Naomi A. Williams on March 31, 2010 at 5:00am — 6 Comments

Andrew Krzmarzick Project of the Week: Apps for Healthy Kids

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Added by Andrew Krzmarzick on March 22, 2010 at 2:30pm — 9 Comments

Andrew Krzmarzick Project of the Week: Neighbors for Neighbors


How many neighbors do you know on your street?

When was the last time you did something together as a community?


Have you ever had to deal with crime in your neighborhood,
or known a neighbor in need but did not know where to start?

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Added by Andrew Krzmarzick on March 11, 2010 at 4:50pm — No Comments

Tanya Hilleary Project of the Week: Opengov.gr and "The Citizen Initiator"

We in the States know how a new government with new ideas about transparency and new technology to implement them can make a difference in public perception. Other nations’ new governments are taking a lesson from our shores, and experiencing positive feedback as a result. But is this kind of foray into participatory democracy really new?

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Added by Tanya Hilleary on March 3, 2010 at 11:42am — 2 Comments

Naomi A. Williams GovLoop Project of the Week - MakingHomeAffordable.gov





In light of the horrible real estate market and the huge amount of Americans losing their homes; I find this site extremely helpful. I know a lot of people have a million questions and want to save their homes while getting back on track financially.

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Added by Naomi A. Williams on February 24, 2010 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

Andrew Krzmarzick Project of the Week: Washington State's GMAP

"Bottom Line: No state in the nation is better at developing
and sharing information than Washington."

- Governing Magazine, "Grading the States," 2008


As government at every level is releasing raw datasets as part of the Open Government Initiative, one of the key questions being asked is, "So what do we do… Continue

Added by Andrew Krzmarzick on February 17, 2010 at 8:00am — 4 Comments

Tanya Hilleary Project of the Week - Native Cultures 2.0



So much of the 2.0 part of the web is community in collaboration. One of the emerging questions with this technology and tools is – how does it benefit all Americans or help to reach traditionally underserved populations?

What caught our attention this month is how native communities are using Web 2.0 tools to enhance their presence within national boundaries. It sparked us to ask:

What is being done in th

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Added by Tanya Hilleary on February 5, 2010 at 9:21am — 3 Comments

Naomi A. Williams GovLoop Project of the Week - ArmyHire.com

1. What is Armyhire.com? ArmyHire.com enables job seekers to apply for U.S. Government Civilian positions in the Army Contracting Command (ACC). The job openings are for contracting and procurement personnel, and are open to people currently employed in industry or in government. The website offers information about job opportunities with ACC, including job descriptions, information about benefits, and background on how ACC works with… Continue

Added by Naomi A. Williams on January 27, 2010 at 5:00am — 3 Comments

Andrew Krzmarzick Project of the Week: Census 2010

in several ways over the next couple months to help them more effectively spread the word about the 2010 Census. One of the first things we did in that partnership was to create a new group called "US Census Communication Partners" to facilitate dialogue about best practices in reaching the public. The group will be moderated, allowing only government employees from Federal, state and local organizations who are involved with the census,… Continue

Added by Andrew Krzmarzick on January 14, 2010 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

Merici Vinton Project of the Week: MLK Technology Challenge (#MLKTech)

Everyone has a wish list – we know that many schools have tech wish lists – nagging projects that just never seem to get completed; or fun, new and innovative projects that you need just a bit more capacity to get off the ground. The MLK Tech Challenge is here to help. The aim is simple: to connect schools that have technology needs with IT and web professionals, developers, graphic designers and new media professionals who are willing to volunteer their skills for good, by taking on these techn… Continue

Added by Merici Vinton on January 11, 2010 at 4:34pm — 3 Comments

Naomi A. Williams GovLoop Project of the Week - Business.gov

Happy Holidays to everyone. This week I present Business.gov.

Over the years I've found that starting a business from the ground up can be very frustrating and overwhelming. Looking for a list of what to do and who to contact can be just as tedious. I ran… Continue

Added by Naomi A. Williams on December 23, 2009 at 8:05am — 4 Comments

Tanya Hilleary Project of the Week: UN Public Service Awards

What South Korea, Oman, and Slovenia can teach us about Gov 2.0 GovLoop inspires me. The idea of a network of people working to make governance more transparent, more effective, more efficient has an energizing effect. I’m glad to be a part of it, and know you are too. We’re a part of something bigger than ourselves, and as people we survive and thrive in community with each other. GovLoop has a growing international membership, and you can be assured the Gov 2.0 movement is a profoundl… Continue

Added by Tanya Hilleary on December 4, 2009 at 9:57am — 2 Comments

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