Posts By Sonia Chakrabarty

Inspiring Engagement Through Learning

Getting an audience—whether it’s citizens or colleagues—to engage with information and act upon it is often a difficult task. But it can be done. At GovDelivery’s most recent event in the Digital Engagement Breakfast series, Inspiring Employee & Citizen Engagement Through Learning Experiences, industry and government employees gathered to learn more about how to engageRead… Read more »

Conversations With Your Building: Using Data Analytics To Improve Operations

Do you know what your building is saying? IBM recently released a report on smarter building management, highlighting the importance of collecting, analyzing, and using the data that buildings provide. The benefits are plentiful: smarter building management can lead to energy conservation, improved efficiency and utilization, and better decision-making in the future. From elevators toRead… Read more »

Opportunities For Young Professionals At Esri’s FedGIS

Esri’s Federal GIS Conference is only one week away! Held in Washington, D.C. on February 24th and 25th, 2016 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, federal employees will gather to learn how GIS can advance mission goals and to network with GIS leaders. The next day, February 26th, geospatial developers will have the chanceRead… Read more »

Get In-Depth Training for Building Next-Generation Apps at Esri’s DevSummit DC

Esri’s Federal GIS Conference in Washington, D.C., a two-day event focused on how federal government employees can GIS technology to achieve mission goals, is just weeks away. But while the FedGIS Conference ends on February 25th, the learning opportunities for geospatial developers continue with the Esri DevSummit DC on Friday, February 26th, also at theRead… Read more »

Learning At “A Mile A Minute” At Esri FedGIS

It’s finally February, the month of the Esri Federal GIS Conference. Taking place on February 24th and 25th in Washington, D.C., the conference is the perfect opportunity for federal employees to learn about new developments in GIS technology and see how other agencies are using GIS to achieve mission goals. A plenary session on theRead… Read more »

Elevating the Citizen Experience with Digital Government

Amidst the enticing aroma of bagels, government and industry employees gathered at GovDelivery on Tuesday morning for a panel on elevating the citizen experience in digital government. The foundation of the panel was a report that GovDelivery published recently on trends in digital government engagement. The panel consisted of three current and former government employeesRead… Read more »

Government’s IT Inflection—Moving To Flash

There’s a revolution happening in government IT. Multi-tiered flash storage, long a staple in the private sector, is coming to the government, and it’s changing the way federal, state, and local employees relate to their data. Tegile, a manufacturer of flash storage arrays, is leading the transformation to a flash-centric data center. Thursday’s GovLoop onlineRead… Read more »

3 Reasons Why You Should Attend the Esri FedGIS Conference

The countdown is on with less than a month until Esri’s Federal GIS Conference in Washington, D.C., taking place on February 24 -25 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Haven’t registered yet? Need some convincing? Here are three reasons why anybody interested in GIS should register now. #1: You’ll further your education The FederalRead… Read more »

Meet GovLoop’s Featured Bloggers!

Last month, we put out a call for our seventh round of GovLoop Featured Bloggers – and you responded with amazing enthusiasm. Around 100 people from all walks of government and industry life sent in great ideas for posts, about everything from technology challenges in city government to using Twitter to monitor food safety in your city.Read… Read more »