Good morning! It’s your weekly dose of TSP Talk. Stocks were mostly lower on Friday, while bonds rallied after a weaker than expected Consumer Confidence report. The C fund dropped 0.4%, the S fund was relatively flat, the I fund lost 0.74% after some strength in the dollar, and the F-fund (bonds) was up aRead… Read more »
A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Personal Democracy Forum conference. One of the best sessions was by danah boyd (she doesn’t capitalize her name), a researcher currently working for Microsoft. She basically whacked us over the head with the fact thatdespite similar numbers, the people on Facebook aren’t the same people on MySpace.Read… Read more »
Happy anniversary to GovLoop! Flowers for Steve (obviously, not my roses …that are full of holes from nasty Japanese beetles …) We need a Rose Garden Czar. And by the way, since we are all about transparency and such, where is the pay-scale for those 30-odd folks published? Image by Jack Duval via Flickr PartiesRead… Read more »
Keith McDonald raises an excellent point in a comment on the previous post. “We are having a real fear on missing an offensive post on a wall for example….Hypotheticaly someone could post something that stays up for a while that we simply miss because we didn’t check it out fast enough or our one FBRead… Read more »
A few months ago I came across the work of an intelligent, generous human being in Silicon Valley named Rajesh Setty. He is doing some interesting work at a new site, TH!NKSULTING. I appreciated his recent answer to a question that was posed to him, “I am planning to write a book. Can we brainstormRead… Read more »
The Four “R”s for a PROductive Relationship: The Stress Doc presents a four step, “Four ‘R’” communicational guide for building successful “give and take” professional relationships. The Four “R”s are dramatically illustrated in his recent encounter with an ENT surgeon. Many of us “Boomers” grew up with an alliterative academic mantra as educational foundation, thatRead… Read more »
Back in January we ran a competition to send one lucky gov lover to Washington to attend the Politics Online conference. As it turns out, once we’d got everything tied up, it was time for Personal Democracy Forum 2009, so we shifted our plans and I travelled with competition winner Liz Azyan to PDF instead!Read… Read more »
A year has passed since I launched GovLoop with a simple idea that it would be great to have an online community of all the rockstars who work around government. So we could connect, share ideas, best practices, and have fun. Together we have building a brilliant community of over 14,000+ government innovators across theRead… Read more »
The NYC Gov 2.0 Tech Forum was held on July 9, 2009, from 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. at the Digital Sandbox Network Event Center at 55 Broad Street, New York City Event Overview: * Learn about the City’s evolving use of technology and how your company can provide innovative IT solutions to improve publicRead… Read more »
Republished from eGov AU. Over the last week US media has been buzzing with the story of Canadian musician Dave Carroll, whose US$3,500 Taylor guitar was broken on a flight on United Airlines. Carroll reported that people on the plane had watched with horror as United baggage handlers had roughly handled and thrown his andRead… Read more »