As the NCAA tournament sweet sixteen tips off tonight I wanted to give everyone and update on where your favorite cities and agencies stand in GovMadness. Over the weekend and Monday and Tuesday govies did battle at the ballot box to try and push their favorites through the second round and one step closer toRead… Read more »
After a week of hardcore voting the GovMadness field has been sliced in half from 64 to 32. There were definitely some close match ups and even a few upsets as we saw some major agencies and cities get knocked out. Don’t Forget To Vote in Round 2 Here’s what happened on the Agency sideRead… Read more »
It’s Sunshine Week and that means it’s time to celebrate open data and government. There have been big strides this year and several people have written several awesome things that are too many to list this week. BUT I really wanted to share the Sunshine Week post by Aneesh Chopra and Chris Vein. Also atRead… Read more »
First off what is GovMadness: GovMadness is a crowdsourcing competition hosted on GovLoop to determine which gov’t city or federal agency is the most awesome via your votes. The competition is set up to replicate NCAA march madness. It’s pretty awesome and you can win stuff so you should probably participate. Every few days orRead… Read more »
First off it seems like everyone is trying to avoid a shutdown these days and for some reason or another all those shutdowns are focused in on the hill. Obviously the government has their hands full with their own shutdown but now some people are looking for feds to get there hands into the NFLRead… Read more »
If you work in public health than listen up. John Hopkins University is offering a new training certificate that it only takes one year to complete and thanks to a gov’t subsidy you can’t take the all online courses at more that 50 % off. The program focuses on health infomatics. The goal of theRead… Read more »
It’s that time again… Friday’s Fab Five! Every Friday, we’re summarizing the best of the week and highlighting five members or moments that were especially awesome. The Most Commented Blog of the Week goes to Good Project Management is Common Sense by Josh Nankivel. Josh always does an awesome job giving GovLoop the low downRead… Read more »
As government moves forward with pending budget cuts a lot of things are going to get looked at one of those is going to be federal benefits for the retired. In fact the government is already slicing into retiree checks. Higher federal withholding is taking a bite out of retirees’ annuity checks The suddenly shrinkingRead… Read more »
Every Friday, we take a quick look back at the week and highlight five members or moments that were especially awesome. Here’s who and what rocked it out this week. Also we want to know how or what you think killed it this week on the site so help us out with your comments below.Read… Read more »
So there’s been a lot of talk about what will happen on March 4th if the government doesn’t pass a budget. Well I’m no expert but I can tell you there will be a shutdown and also that the world will not end but it will probably suck a a little more. While I’m noRead… Read more »