It’s social media week all over DC and other major cities this week which basically means a ton of FREE great conferences and workshops. I’d encourage you to check them out here: http://socialmediaweek.org/washingtondc/ With all that said I attended the Ethics in Social Media workshop this afternoon and there were some eye popping numbers. FirstRead… Read more »
Social Media, the way you hear people talk about it you’d think it was the end all be all of the business world but is it? It seems like social media is about being there rather than what you do once your there. Once your agency or city has a twitter and a facebook it’sRead… Read more »
Top Member Blogs The internet is a weird place and getting eyes to your content is hard. Of course there are tricks like SEO (search engine optimization), catchy headlines, and in the case of GovLoop getting in the carousel or newsletter. But more so than anything else the thing that drives eyes to content isRead… Read more »
GovLoop is all about the users and nothing really emphasizes that point more than the fact that roughly 90 percent of our content is user generated. GovLoop has tons of resources (shameless plug) from guides to infographics to trainings, mentoring and the list goes on and on BUT the user generated content in blogs andRead… Read more »
I know I’ve heard the talk around government of shutdown culture and how last minute CRs are just becoming normal. Heck I think it’s even been talked about on GovLoop. It was two days ago when I got an e-mail asking if we were covering the shutdown here on GovLoop. I remember I read theRead… Read more »
Being a government worker is a thankless job in most instances and that’s just not cool. Here at GovLoop we see the great work govies do day in and day out and we want to do something to say thanks. After all you are the people who make our community so great. On December 8thRead… Read more »
Recently at GovLoop we’ve been scouring through our data and a lot of interesting findings about the community make up of GovLoop have come to light. In an effort to share our data with you (our members) we put together a sample video of GovLoopers by location. Let us know what you think. The videoRead… Read more »
We are getting into the political season with the Republican debate two nights ago and President Obama’s jobs/vote for me again speech last night. In the coming months we’re going to here a lot of things come from both sides, so how do we know when their genuine and how do we know when theirRead… Read more »
I don’t know about you, but I was kind of bummed when NASA decided that the moon wasn’t cool enough to keep going to. I guess it’s like any vacation locale… you go enough times and it just loses it’s luster. NASA has said it is not focusing it’s efforts on landing on Mars. MarsRead… Read more »
Last week’s top 5 got a little on the serious side with the top 5 things we hate about politics so this week we’ll take it a little lighter and move on the silver screen. After-all it is Friday. When I started making this list I really had no idea there were so many moviesRead… Read more »