This year, I was chosen as one of 60 Presidential Leadership Scholars and participated in the inaugural program that concluded in July. There were six sessions over six months that focused on four leadership abilities: Engaging Others Through Vision and Communication Making Decisions Working Collaboratively to Influence and Persuade Stakeholders Building Working and Strategic PartnershipsRead… Read more »
The much-lauded federal retirement tsunami is upon us. More than a third of career federal employees will to be eligible to collect their end-of-career benefits by September 2017, compared to just 14 percent at the same time in 2012. The impending knowledge gap is going to be tremendous — thousands of career feds leaving the government andRead… Read more »
I have a big announcement (details below), but before I share the good news, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on why I created GovLoop (which I launched from my spare bedroom in summer of 2008). GovLoop started from a need I had as a government employee. Every day at DHS, my bossRead… Read more »
Khan Academy is changing how kids (and even adults!) are learning across the globe. With over 2,400 courses from arithmetic to physics and 100,000+ exercises, millions of people across the globe are learning from the world’s top experts at Khan. At the same time as this revolutionary change is taking place, it’s worth looking atRead… Read more »
Honestly, GovLoop started as just an idea of mine that it would be awesome to have a place online to learn from other awesome government employees. Fast forward five years and I’m still in shock that GovLoop has grown to over 150,000 federal, state and local government employees like you, who every day collaborate, share insights,Read… Read more »
Last August, when the U.S. Digital Services was announced, I wrote a blog post with 7 Ideas for the USDS. Yesterday, the White House announced in their 2016 budget a $100M program to expand digital services teams into 25 agencies. This is quite an impressive proposal and it also follows my first general tip forRead… Read more »
It’s a fun time to be in government. A mix of rapidly growing technology, increased citizen demands, and a push to be more efficient has government agencies across the globe making changes. Topics and technology that were just an idea a few years ago are starting to gain traction. You see this in a rangeRead… Read more »
Wow. 2014 was a great year for government innovation. We are in the middle of writing our end of year wrap-up guide highlighting 30 great case studies of government innovation from USGS drones to GSA smart building to State of Hawaii’s gamification website. And those are just the ones that made the cut for this guide –Read… Read more »
I’m super excited to show you the new and improved GovLoop today. Or as Daft Punk would say – Bigger, Faster, Stronger. A lot of work has been going on behind scenes the last few months to make this magic happen. The core of the improvements is that we’ve moved from our former CMS, Ning,Read… Read more »
Hey GovLoopers- I wanted to let you know that based on all of your awesome input and feedback over the past few years, we have been cooking up some magic and are rolling out a bunch of new updates to the GovLoop platform this upcoming Monday. I’m super excited with the changes we’ve got inRead… Read more »