Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On the Appointment of Dr. Don Berwick To Lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Here is the link : http://www.aflcio.org/mediacenter/prsptm/pr07072010.cfm
My 5 Take Aways From the NGG Summit
WOW! What a fun packed two day event!! It didn’t even FEEL like work 😉 First off, thank you Steve and the rest of govloop for my attendance to the summit!!! It was everything and more that I was looking for; I’m so grateful to have been apart of it! Second, I met some wayRead… Read more »
Maybe we’ll know it’s Gov 2.0 when we don’t call it Gov 2.0 anymore
This is my first blog post within GovLoop. I am happy to be here. A little gov/tech background: I am a writer/editor/project manager/interactive designer who is currently working as a contractor on a federal website. I call myself a content wrangler; I’ve done everything from write copy for tiny display cards in a Kentucky arboretumRead… Read more »
Five talks on government, open source, and health care
I posted pointers to some of these already. Now you can get all five of the O’Reilly Radar interviews with people in government and health care: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/topic/Health The conference is in mid-July, and we will be videotaping all the talks. I’ll report here when I find out where they’ll be posted.
Do you need a big fancy title to transform Government IT?
The idea that change can be initiated at every level of an organization is the cornerstone of our corporate and government philosophy. We agree and herald the idea that in our organization, noone’s voice is too small, no title is too low, no person is too insignificant, and that change and transformation can start anywhereRead… Read more »
Enter to win a NAGW Pinnacle Award
Are you proud of your site? Would it be fabulous to have a cool award sitting on your desk so your colleagues can ooh and awe over it? If you’re a local or state government webmaster, join NAGW and then enter your site in our Pinnacle Awards. Take a look at winning sites from 2008Read… Read more »
Weekly Research and Best Practices
1. Online Dialogue Brainstorming Guide (06/30/2010) – How to-guide for conducting online dialogs, from the National Academy of Public Administration. Includes lessons learned from a dozen successful dialogues and list of questions to ask before you start. http://www.slideshare.net/collaborationproject/online-dialogue-brainstorm-guide 2. Best Practices and Innovations in Public Service Excellence (06/19/2010) – Case studies of 85 public serviceRead… Read more »
CB2: Understanding the BP Relief Wells
It’s day 77 and we as a whole are losing interest in the oil spill. The top two CNN.com headlines right now are about Bobby Fischer and the heat wave, what caught my attention this morning is, “Oh cool. LiLo is going to jail,” and if you prefer numbers, Google search traffic for “oil spill”Read… Read more »
GovLoop Member of the Week – Henry Brown
Andrew Krzmarzick spoke with Henry, and their discourse provides great insight into our Member of the Week! 1. You are an uber-contributor to the GovLoop community (to say the least) – how/when did you first find out about it and what was your reaction? And what made you get so active? Read about GovLoop inRead… Read more »
Selfishness vs Greed & Selfishness Maps
There’s a difference between Selfishness and Greed. Selfishness: what turns the world. Greed: unmitigated, unethical, Gordon Geeko-ness. I prefer the first kind. Anyways, here’s my Selfishness Map. (I used WiseMapping to create it.)