We’ve often seen contrary positions taken by western democratic governments on the value of the internet – whether it can be used for good, or is a pit of evil. The US government, for instance, has promoted freedom of speech on the internet internationally, supporting the use of Tor and other tools to allow bloggersRead… Read more »
Writer/editor guy becomes web guy. Then what? I lead internal comm. at my agency. In February, I was asked to also take on leading our web and social media team after its former lead stepped down from supervision. And we didn’t (and still don’t) have the budget to hire someone else. Having a decent graspRead… Read more »
On Today’s Edition of the DorobekINSIDER We’ve spent some time talking about the Obama administration’s Digital Government Strategy. Today, we’re going to talk about how that strategy can get implemented — and I know a lot of agencies are saying they have no money. GSA is hoping to help, and we’ll talk to the personRead… Read more »
Writing a tweet is easy – after all, what can you get wrong when you only have 140 characters to play with? Quite a lot, it turns out. Recently Ben and I did some training at a local authority up in the North-East, and part of it was a quick workshop on writing for theRead… Read more »
We’ve talked a lot about the White House’s new Digital Government Strategy. But if you haven’t seen it, you can find our recap here. It’s a massive strategy with more than 29 goals that all need to be accomplished in a very short period of time. So how do you actually implement the plan? That’sRead… Read more »
Fellow Federal Employees: If you are looking for a GREAT opportunity to learn about all aspects of Sustainability, work on meaningful projects, meet with others outside your Agency, and become a Sustainability Change Agent, consider applying for GSA’s Sustainability in Procurement Fellows (SPF) Program. This is a 6 month, intensive program where you work 20Read… Read more »
According to several links on LinkedIn, 6.5 million passwords have been leaked. Considering that there are about 100 million LinkedIn users, that’s a pretty high chance your (or my) passwords were leaked. I’d recommend changing your passwords not just on LinkedIn but for any account that shares that password. Change Your LinkedIn Passwords, Right Now!
GovLoop is proud to announce our latest resource, The GovLoop Research Report: Re-Imagining Customer Service in Government. In this report, we interviewed 11 government employees and conducted an online survey of 138 government employees from our GovLoop community. Customer service is a core function of government. With government customers having heightened expectations of the levelRead… Read more »
Today on the DorobekINSIDER BYOD — bring your own device. It is something that could be possible, but there are issues. We’ll talk to somebody who is actually doing it, Kimberly Hatcher at EEOC. Click here for the full post. There are challenges facing federal agencies, but there are many challenges facing cities and countiesRead… Read more »
Right now federal, state and local governments are plagued with similar problems: tight budgets, implementing new technologies, utilizing social media and dealing with low public support. But there are some big differences too. Ron Carlee is the Chief Operating Officer at International City/County Management Association. He told Chris Dorobek on the DorobekINSIDER program there areRead… Read more »