It’s your weekly dose of TSP Talk. Stocks were mixed again on Friday, as the Dow and S&P 500 closed modestly lower, while the small caps did well, and the I-fund managed a small gain. Bonds were also up slightly. We started last week with a sharp decline, believing we could be seeing the startRead… Read more »
This post originally appeared in my blog about Government 2.0 at the Kennedy School,We the Goverati Maps + blogs + the Citizen + the Kennedy School Student Government (KSSG) + the Government 2.0 club + Kennedy School students across the globe for summer internships = new mapping and communications initiative from the Kennedy School. VictoriaRead… Read more »
A quick blog from the Hokie Guru… today, at 2 PM EST, the USA Men’s Soccer team takes on Brazil in the finals of the FIFA Confederations Cup… A quick recap… the USA was on its back… it had to beat Egypt by three goals and Italy had to lose by three goals… amazingly, thisRead… Read more »
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Diana Morgan, a GS-5 Forest Service employee, has been a Social Services Assistant at Angell Job Corps for just over two years. Although new to government service, Diana has proven herself to be a positive influence on staff members and students alike. On June 12th of this year, Diana received her Masters degree in HumanRead… Read more »
Take a look at a just published NYTimes letter from an old friend http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/business/28backpage-GOVERNMENTAS_LETTERS.htm?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1246190656-P7n3Pwsk3VDcFxZptE5V/A (reprinted for your convenience here) Re “Can Government Till the Fields of Innovation?” (Unboxed, June 21), which examined national efforts around the world to turn ideas into products and services: The United States government, far from just “wading into” innovation today,Read… Read more »
The White House Open Government/Transparency Initiative online wiki-style comment period extended thru July 3rd: http://ow.ly/fWMf I just found out about it via Twitter & apologize if this has been covered elsewhere on GovLoop, but I didn’t see any recent posts about it. Update 06/26/09: A number of you have told us that there is greatRead… Read more »
Good morning! I am still a little behind, but I’m begging for your mercy …;) I have trouble deciding how to handle FollowFriday. I have been screening it out entirely due to space constraints, but we were missing some great contacts. So today, I am trying something new. I tried to leave the first mentionRead… Read more »
I remember writing a blog post entitled ‘we want Web 2.0, whatever that is’ a couple of years back drawing attention to the challenge of hype in connection with the new technologies and their capabilities as laid out by Tim O’Reilly in his original definition of Web 2.0. http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html My plea was to understand theRead… Read more »
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