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AFGE Outraged Over Furloughs of Transportation Workers, Filibuster on Jobs Bill

http://www.afge.org/Index.cfm?Page=PressReleases&PressReleaseID=1112 John Gage, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the nation’s largest union for federal employees which represents furloughed transportation workers issued the following statement. It is outrageous that the action of one U.S. Senator, Republican Jim Bunning of Kentucky, has resulted not only in the furlough of thousands of DepartmentRead… Read more »

Career, Miscellaneous, Project Management, Tech

Tech Expo Top Secret Hiring Events: NEXT WEEK 3/9 Linthicum, MD – BWI Marriott 3/10 Tysons Corner, VA – Ritz-Carlton

Hundreds of job opportunities are available this March! Bring many resumes and interview for your new career in information technology, engineering, aerospace, telecom, project management, intelligence, operations, homeland security, research & more at TECHEXPO Top Secret’s March job fairs. Tuesday, March 9, 10am – 3pm BWI Marriott 1743 West Nursery Rd. Baltimore, MD 21090 (410)Read… Read more »

Tech

Gary Vaughan’s Blog

Gary Vaughan is a retired career FSO, now a Sharepoint guru at the Department of State. We are college classmates. At lunch last month we were discussing the way Microsoft and open source tools are being used for similar tasks on the social web.One output was his commitment to increase his blogging frequency.The second wasRead… Read more »

Social Media, Tech

Designing Government for the People

I was talking to a co-worker about our office’s reconfiguration plans, which involve merging divisions and training employees to handle a wider variety of customer needs. It’s a nice plan, and it is likely to benefit our customers by removing the layers they have to dig through to get to the services they need. InRead… Read more »

Communications, Tech

Rockin’ it at the London LocalGovCamp

We had a fantastic London LocalGovCamp yesterday. LocalGovCamp is really a series of events across the country – local government unconferences focusing on the use of social media and collaboration in local government (and it’s not all techy – lots of it is about rethinking the way local government works and radical efficiency). For theRead… Read more »

Career

Federal Eye: Eye Opener: Violence at federal facilities

Happy Friday! Last night’s shooting at the main entrance of the Pentagon is the fourth attack or security scare at a federal facility this year. A gunman opened fire and shot two police officers at the main entrance to the nation’s largest federal building on Thursday night. John Patrick Bedell, 36, calmly pulled a gunRead… Read more »

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Updating Website (Govloop Community, Please Provide Input For Ideas!)

Hello Govlooper’s- Iowa Community Education Association is looking to add to the website. We would like a website that attracts new traffic, keeps traffic (both new and old) on the site (going from page to page and not exiting on the first page visited), and want to keep site viewers to revisit the website. ByRead… Read more »

Miscellaneous

Thanks For Amazing First #localgovchat! Transcript Posted.

All I can say is wow. Despite about 45 nervous seconds of initial silence as Seesmic reloaded, the first inaugural #localgovchat went extremely well with more than 60 contributors and 295 tweets in an hour. We had localgovvies from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Virginia City of London (Canada), Tennessee, Texas, Illinois, Australia, California, Toronto and more.Read… Read more »

Communications, Tech

Do you need an eXtreme MarCom 2.0 makeover?

Well, below are some tips for strategic consideration. Public relations and marketing is about the conversation. Right? And, depending on which camp you are in; communications, marketing or both, you can more effectively enable “conversation” by shaping opinion, and opening the door towards selling the products, services and information you offer with MarCom 2.0. MarComRead… Read more »