Good morning govloop.com members. It’s our Monday morning market commentary from TSP Talk.com. Stocks opened up deep in the red on Friday, but once again the market reversed and closed modestly higher. Does that mean another Monday morning rally? Maybe, but we have a busy week on tap and I expect we will see someRead… Read more »
Ever since our city first became aware of the possibility of a federal stimulus package focusing on public works, we have been busy as bees finding “shovel-ready” projects to submit for funding. Because I realize efforts like ours are now going on all over the U.S., I thought it might be helpful to post someRead… Read more »
The GovLoop Battle of Colleges Charity Contested has officially ended with the winner being the George Washington University. 2nd place goes to George Mason University and 3rd place goes to American University. Despite our range of members, I guess the D.C. connection is strong although if given another week or so I’m guessing you wouldRead… Read more »
How do people handle matters relating to the other end of the alimentary canal? For instance: What do they call that room in their language? (If there is one – in one place I visited, when I asked to use a restroom, two people got a sheet of corrugated metal and held it upright. Voilá!Read… Read more »
I just uploaded the FDS-SMV sites screencast to my drop.io site, http://tinyurl.com/fds-web1 the download button provides a high resolution .mov file (~70MB). You can also watch the streaming version, but it is a little too small and too low of resolution, so it is a bit difficult to clearly see what is happening. The YouTubeRead… Read more »
Not much to say in addition to this, I am glad to hear the dialog happening and these things being discussed. Link to source on washingtonpost.com site.
Ho, Ho, Hokies!!! 🙂 Today, President Bush declared December 26, 2008 a federal holiday for most federal workers (with the exception of essential employees). You can see the text of his Executive Order right here. The Hokie Guru is all for President-Elect Obama continuing this tradition. More time to watch college football bowl games. Yep,Read… Read more »
Anybody writing an etiquette guide for social media?Social Networking Guide I found this — thoughts?
Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley presented his “Open Notebook Science” at NIST’s Social Media Day yesterday. He has posted that presentation publically for all interested people to view. The link is here: December 11, 2008
I just received today’s installment of “The Daily Pipeline” from the Partnership for Public Service and was angered when I read the opinion piece by Thomas Schweich entitled “Generation No.” Here’s how he starts his thoughts: “You know you have arrived when you get interviewed by the 29-year-old instead of the 22-year-old,” the 57-year-old foreignRead… Read more »