Today I am having lunch with a friend I’ve not seen in a while. We keep up with each other through email, social media, and other friends but it’s a rare treat for us to find the time (or make the time) to see each other face to face. She lives and works in Herndon.Read… Read more »
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: 10 easy steps to creating a quality government mobile app. Inside tips from Agilex’s CIO Tim Hoechst. Click here for the full recap. One of the more worrisome aspects of sequestration has been the lack of transparency in how these massive, across the board cuts will impact projects and programs throughoutRead… Read more »
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Leadership lessons from successful federal leaders. The Partnership for Public Service has sat down with the Service to America Medal winners to find out what leadership tactics work and which ones don’t. Click here for the full recap. Sequestration 101 — how many of you actually know what happens if sequestrationRead… Read more »
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: What would you do if you were in charge of RFP-EZ? RFP-EZ is one of the 5 Obama administration’s projects for the Presidential Innovation Fellows, and we’re going to do some real collaborating. We talked to two experts and Fellow Clay Johnson. Click here for the full recap. Our goal hereRead… Read more »
At a recent writing workshop I attended, the speaker suggested one strategy to find your niche for writing: pick three things you’re passionate about, and imagine yourself in the space where those three things intersect. While I have imagined myself in the middle of many a three set Venn diagram, few sound more appealing thanRead… Read more »
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Can the government team up to save the Atlantic Ocean? The Menhaden? Click here for the full recap. Is a cloud on every desktop really a reality? Maybe so at the Government Printing Office. We got the inside look from CPO’s Chief Information Officer, Chuck Riddle. Click here for the fullRead… Read more »
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Sarkis Tatigian has spent 70 years dedicating his life to federal service. 70 years! Why did he do it? What are his plans for the future? We talked to the Navy mainstay. Click here for the full recap. Could you harness the power of Twitter to predict diseases? Yes, says theRead… Read more »
Regionalization or municipal collaboration continues to be a big topic in local government. It can be an especially useful pursuit in “home rule” states like Massachusetts with generally weak or no regional governments, and reliance on each city and town to provide residents with all local governmental services. As we know, local government budgets haveRead… Read more »
Yesterday, the third session of Howto.gov’s (managed by GSA’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies and the Federal Web Managers Council) 8-part series on APIs aired. These free, online discussions aim to inform and inspire agencies nationwide to get their data online and develop APIs to make life easier internally and externally. This sessionRead… Read more »
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Is leadership success a shot in the dark? Insights from Tox Fox from the Partnership for Public Service. Click here for the full recap. TextMyBus is the latest app from the fellows at Code for America. The app takes data from the Detroit Department of Transportation to create a text messagingRead… Read more »