Federal Leaders Fail to Connect — Advice on how to correct the problem

Feds give government executives low marks when it comes to leadership. That’s the top finding from a new assessment of the Parternership for Public Service Best Places to Work in Government rankings. Tom Fox is the Vice President for Leadership and Innovation at PPS. He gave Chris Dorobek on the DorobekINSIDER a breakdown of theRead… Read more »

What’s Your Digital Community Engagement Score?

**This post is brought to you by CivicPlus – which has designed more than 1,100 local government websites serving 42 million citizens throughout North America*** Are you doing good at digital engagement? Poorly? How are you doing compared to your peers? Citizens everywhere are demanding better engagement with their local government. However, it can beRead… Read more »

Why Feds don’t respect their Leaders, What doing more with less means for CIOs and Matchmaking with the SBA and Government

Why Feds don’t respect their Leaders, More with less for CIOs and Matchmaking with the SBA and Gov’t by GovLoop Insights On today’s program for Wednesday May 2nd 2012 How would you rate leadership in your organization? A new assessment from the Partnership for Public Service shows — not great. We’ll find out why andRead… Read more »

The DorobekINSIDER’s 7 Gov’t Stories you Need to know: Post Office Closures get put on Hold

The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Wednesday the 18th of April, 2012 Lawmakers are asking for more time to pass a final bill to restructure the postal service. And they’re asking to delay the first round of post office closures to make it happen. The Postal Service has put more than 3,000 postRead… Read more »

Join Us – Announcing the GovLoop May Blog Series

This month GovLoop will be rolling out a blog series, exploring a challenge that we hear all the time in government – government operates in silos. This month we will be having a series of blogs and discussions centered around this topic, exploring the impact of siloed information within each one of our communities onRead… Read more »

Crowdsourcing funding, Bashing the President on Facebook could get you Fired, and How to be Intimate at Conferences…

Crowdsourcing funding, Fired for Bashing the President on Facebook, and Intimate at Conferences… by GovLoop Insights On today’s program for Tuesday May 1st, 2012: Crowd-funding. It is now legal and might just be a way to fund small businesses that could focus on government challenges. We’ll talk to the man behind WeFunder. Can you beRead… Read more »

How to get intimate at an industry conference — it’s not what your thinking…

With all the brouhaha over conferences following the GSA situation, it makes the time you spend at conferences even more important. There was a time just a few years ago when people would say that conferences were so 1990s — a relic of the past to be swallowed up by online interactions. That hasn’t provenRead… Read more »

Your 7 Gov’t Stories: Need medical assistance? DARPA wants an app. for that

The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Tuesday the 1st of May 2012 Congress is getting closer to a fina transportation bill to maintain highway and transit aid. Unless the House and Senate can agree, funding ends June 30. But Federal News Radio says election year pressures are driving Republicans and Democrats to findRead… Read more »

Gov 2.0 – Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?

GovLoop recently hosted a webinar sponsored by HP and AMD, Gov 2.0 – Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?. The webinar was a fascinating discussion on the current state of Gov 2.0. The panelist also provided expert insights from a recent survey conducted by HP and AMD. The educational survey served asRead… Read more »