A very interesting post on Mashable yesterday. The Russian Gov’t is switching to free software completely by 2015. The order was put out by prime minister Putin. Is this a good call or bad call? Here’s the full article: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a government order that lays out the groundwork forRead… Read more »
While I know many people on govloop are heavily interesting in Web 2.0 and the open government movement with Gov 2.0, the fact remains many people still fear social media. I originally created this article so people involved with Twitter realize that your follower counts don’t matter, but this is also important for govloopers too.Read… Read more »
By Steve Ressler, Founder & President, GovLoop 2010 has been a tough year for state and local governments. From furloughs to layoffs to cutting services, the budget situation is dire. It’s pretty simple when you have a budget shortfall. You have two options – cut costs, increase revenue. Most of the focus has been onRead… Read more »
Andrea Di Maio writes: 9. U.S. Open Government Plans Last year I was not hugely complimentary of the Open Government Directive in the US. Although an important step, as it recites, toward greater transparency, collaboration and participation, it made openness a compliance rather than a business issue for several agencies. The main purpose was notRead… Read more »
‘Your speak with individuals; you sell to organizations; and you live by referrals’ – a friend noted in a recent conversation about professional service firms. Are we meeting the needs of each of these functions in our communications with clients and prospects. ? I’d say yes when meetings were face-to-face and we were a primaryRead… Read more »
Some assumptions must be made on projects when there is a lack of information available. This may be due to our lack of an ability to predict the future accurately. In most cases, this is a valid source of necessary assumptions on projects, although we still do our best to get better at making themRead… Read more »
Dueling Books Reflect Procurement Experts’ Personalities Self-published books used to be the domain of the mediocre and the desperate. Mostly they were low-rent affairs, cheaply produced. They served pretty much the vanity of their publishers, and looked it. No more. Nowadays would-be authors have an astonishing variety of online social tools to spread the wordRead… Read more »
Today, I came across this excerpt on “engineering virality,” which, ironically, has been on my mind for the past few days. My conclusion? Virality can’t really be engineered or replicated with any more confidence than a new movie, book, or pop song can be guaranteed to top the charts. Instead, you’re much more likely toRead… Read more »
Thanks to my hometown newspaper and a tweet from Dominic Campbell I stumbled across the fact that Missouri state senators have thrown up their hands and are now reaching out to the public for ideas to cut the budget. This is actually a really smart idea if you’re an elected official… no one wants toRead… Read more »
When Hebert Hoover started the tradition of publishing the presidential papers it could have been considered the first act of open government. After all the papers were designed to make the president and his doings more publicly accessible. But as pointed out in the recent Washington Post story by Lisa Rein is it necessary forRead… Read more »