Bright Spots in Government: VA Acquisition Academy’s Program Management Fellows Initiative

GovLoop and Integrity Management Consulting are proud to present a 12-part series called “Conscientious Contracting: A Thoughtful Approach to Acquisition and Program Management,” that aims to address common challenges and achieve new efficiencies in government procurement. In a recent GovLoop survey of acquisition professionals, seven out of ten respondents said the most important factor forRead… Read more »

Many state and local government workers (despite cuts the last few years) Report Job Satisfaction

Here’s the stats from the Governing article: Overall, how satisfied are you with your job/working conditions? Response Percentage Very satisfied 38% Somewhat satisfied 40% Somewhat dissatisfied 16% Very dissatisfied 6% Please rate your satisfaction regarding your organization’s performance in providing the following: Rating Very Satisfied Somewhat satisfied Somewhat dissatisfied Very dissatisfied Work/life balance 36% 50%Read… Read more »

How Do You Manage Millennials? Inspire, Adapt, Accept? – Insights from the NextGen Summit

Last week GovLoop was proud to co-host the Next Generation of Government Training Summit with Young Government Leaders. More than 500 young government professionals descended on the JW Marriott for a two day training summit that featured over 100 speakers. For anyone in attendance there was one thing that was crystal clear, these young peopleRead… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: August 02, 2013

Gadi Ben-Yehuda One minute of internet time, visualized: three days of video uploaded to YouTube and more than 200 million emails. A block for me, a block for you: Nancy Scola has started a new blog, The Shared City. Giants, Meatballs, Apps? (Three things you could find in clouds): Government Technology reports on governments thatRead… Read more »

Bureaucracy, Tool Or Excuse?

Story One – A friend is going through a job change. She was working on getting out more, and walked in to an Arlington County job assistance center in Ballston. She wanted to leave invitations for a free job search techniques presentation by a nationally known outplacement consultant that was being given in DC. ARead… Read more »

Courageous Followership Research

Colleagues, Fellow National Association of Government Communicators member Jane CaultonHead reached out to our president, Glen Thomas, for help with a research project supporting her Ph.D. studies in Organizational Leadership at Regent University. With his approval and support, she is now asking for our help with her research exploring the culture of courageous followers asRead… Read more »

The 2014 Fellowship Applicants

Code for America’s 2014 Fellowship application closed at midnight last night and we’re happy to announce that 658 talented individuals applied for the program. To those of you who applied — thank you so much for your dedication to civic tech. You will be receiving an email from us shortly with next steps. For thoseRead… Read more »

Cyber Security Sales Opportunities Take Front Stage

by Stephanie Sullivan, Consultant Agencies recognize that software vendors are the experts in the cyber security field, and they’re virtually begging for stakeholder engagement, so it’s really becoming more and more important to involve yourself in building out requirements, and to meet those voluntary but critical security needs. Dr. Ron Ross, Senior Computer Scientist andRead… Read more »

Countdown to Drupal Gov Days 2013: Free Hands-on Drupal Training!!!!

We’ve been working on the GovDays event planning our little hearts out when one of the team members said, “Hey, I love it when we do the drupal ladder, but I feel like we need to do more. We need a dedicated room and we need to do training. The kind of training you wouldRead… Read more »

A Personal Invitation to the Federal Forum 2013 from Ray Falcione

By Ryan Kamauff In this podcast Ray Falcione of Brocade personally invites CTOvision listener to the Federal Forum 2013. Ray Falcione is a senior business manager responsible for the intelligence community for Brocade. Brocade has partnered with MeriTalk to host an event that should be excellent. You can read my preview of the event here.Read… Read more »

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