Throughout the month of December, GovLoop has been reviewing the year in government technology – everything from BYOD to social media, I’ve been working to highlight some case studies, best practices and try and condense the year down into one post on the most critical topics for 2012, while looking forward to the year 2013.Read… Read more »
At least some version of telework is still available for some! Although I suspect that for the same reason(s) that ROWE experiment failed is PROBABLY the reason that Telework will continue to struggle to gain traction. Although Teleworking can still show some economic benefits for those organizations which provide more than lip service to teleworking.Read… Read more »
Reading some of the coverage of Instagram’s change in their terms of service, you’d have thought a murder had been committed. Or maybe that the world was about to end. A few years down what might once have been called the Web 2.0 road, well funded companies are finding that they have built their networks,Read… Read more »
A culture of secrecy exists among local government officials The business of government should be conducted as openly and transparently as possible. Every organization has a culture, a predominating attitude and behavior by which it operates. Government officials are supposed to serve the interests of the public, yet many government entities including those at theRead… Read more »
Throughout the month of December, GovLoop has been reviewing the year in government technology – everything from BYOD to social media, I’ve been working to highlight some case studies, best practices and try and condense the year down into one post, while looking forward to the year 2013. Follow along here by viewing GovLoop’s YearRead… Read more »
In November, Code for America proudly closed out its first class of Accelerator startups. These seven companies showed investors, press, and the Code for America community what was possible with technology — and provided services that fulfilled real need among governments (literally) everywhere. Code for America profoundly believes in the need to not only buildRead… Read more »
This is the third video in the MB&A Executive Series which concludes the interview with Major General Dale Meyerrose on the topic of organizational change. Below is the transcript of the video. Josh: Alright as you’re going about those transformational efforts are there processes that you feel like are critical to getting that to work.Read… Read more »
There are 44 positions on www.governmentjobs.com with social media in the job description and this will rise in 2013. Starting and carrying out these programs can be daunting but the number of qualified applicants for these positions is growing as well. As more and more public agencies migrate data and information into the cloud andRead… Read more »
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: There were pockets of real leadership and satisfaction success in government. The National Credit Union, NASA and the FDA all topped the Best Places to Work survey. So what was their secret? Click here for the full recap. But up front: Fiscal Cliff Watch New York Times: Speaker John Boehner wantsRead… Read more »
How many times have you heard the phrases, “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life” or “Don’t take yourself so seriously” in conversations about the workforce? These words of wisdom can be difficult to adopt when we are doing more with less, facing a fiscal cliff, unhappy withRead… Read more »