Good morning! It’s your weekly dose of TSP Talk. This market commentary is updated daily on www.tsptalk.com. After a strong housing data report, and some positive comments from Ben Bernanke on the economy, the major stock indices rallied nearly 2% on Friday. The TSP stocks funds did just as well, led by the 2.3% gainRead… Read more »
The DoD rolled out a new website last week at Defense.gov, highlighting social media tools in the site’s redesign. Check out the press release, Armed Forces Press Service story as well as the Social Media page in addition to the homepage. In related news, there was an interesting story from PBS Media Shift on HowRead… Read more »
Face, govies… we all love the litte guy… Everyone cheers for David… And that’s why we love college football!! Here are six non-Bowl Championship Series (BCS) teams that you, the college football fan, should cheer for this year: 1.) Boise State – Clearly, the class of the class of the non-BCS teams. In ten years,Read… Read more »
I was one of the members who were picked as a winner for “The GovLoop Contest around Best Practices” I won free passes to the Potomac Forum Gov 2.0 Symposium this week – 8/26-27. But, I could not go on this short notice. Especially this close to the end of year. It was an honorRead… Read more »
Happy Sunday!!! Your History Lesson There’s been a few times in civil service history when the United States Government hired several government workers. 1978 was one of those years. That’s also when one of the largest civil service reforms, Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, was passed. The Act also established the Senior Executive ServiceRead… Read more »
Purpose: This policy’s main objective is to layout the ground rule for people interacting with the website. This is a living document and the policy is likely to change as needs or technology changes please check it before making an assumption. Scope: City of Richmond Virginia has several overlapping websites that are not all maintainedRead… Read more »
As I look to what content should be in my new redesign I thought it would help to understand what the common Vocab would be. I surveyed 230 municipal websites Looking to see the common factors among them. Some items where combined together like Contact and contact us because they were so close as toRead… Read more »
Image by zachstern via Flickr Jack Pickard has a great post about policy on council staff blogging, which is sparked by Cambridgeshire making their Social Network and Blogging Policy publicly available. He notes that it is mercifully brief and written in plain English but points out that the bit which relates back to the council’sRead… Read more »
Last week I posted about sending a request to several (100) cities whom used Google Analytic. The request was to be added to the GA account you can see the full request here https://www.govloop.com/xn/detail/1154385:Topic:597747?xg_source=activity So here is the results of what I have received so far. Time to be responded to. (with 26 responses) 1Read… Read more »
The US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Regional Office is looking for a public affairs specialist who can manage the Region’s web site and support field offices with their sites as well. We are interested in finding a candidate in the Denver Metro area. The pay scale is a GS 11/12; which translates to about $60,000Read… Read more »