Good morning! It’s your weekly dose of TSP Talk. Stocks sold off hard on Thursday on light volume holiday trading, after a weaker than expected jobs report. All three TSP stock funds lost about 3% on the day, while the F-fund (bonds) inched up 0.3%. Estimates for the June jobs report were for a lossRead… Read more »
Read the FAIR Institute’s recommendations on insourcing: “The Move to Insourcing…Proceed with Caution” http://www.thefairinstitute.org/downloads/The%20Move%20to%20Insourc… How should agency and program leaders go about the process of insourcing?
Check Sharma, Raj (2009): The Move To “Insourcing” …Proceed with Caution, Washington, D.C., Federal Acquisition Innovation and Reform (FAIR) Institute, June, http://www.thefairinstitute.org/downloads/The%20Move%20to%20Insourcing_June%202009.pdf
Inspectors General – “Change Agents for Better Government” Features: Speakers will include elected officials from the federal, State, and local levels and other top officials to discuss the stimulus, ARRA and other issues facing Inspectors General offices General Sessions for Conference Attendees include: • FBI Interface – Combating Fraud • I.G. Reform ActRead… Read more »
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in affiliation with the Association of Inspectors General, has launched a new opportunity for professional development and career advancement in the field of inspection and oversight. John Jay’s highly respected MPA Inspector General Program is now available in both the traditional classroom format and in a primarily online format.Read… Read more »
Happy Fourth of July… our country is massively awesome!! Have a great holiday and weekend. Here’s sports teaser for you college football fans (like the Hokie Guru) that can’t wait for college football: College Gameday starts it all!! 🙂 You can’t see me… but I’m dancing by my computer!! 🙂 This, of course, is theRead… Read more »
Republished from eGovAU. A key factor in government 2.0 is that it doesn’t have to be a government body that delivers the government 2.0 experience. Sometimes government should simply be the platform providing the data and allow external organisations to provide the combined services and information that the public wants. This can lead to faster,Read… Read more »
Spending a lot of time in the car today on a last minute road trip, I started thinking about the federal hiring process and the problems we seem to have with getting the right people hired for the right jobs in a reasonable amount of time. Additionally, we have a challenge of making it easierRead… Read more »
Author’s Note: I wrote this originally a year ago fresh into my Mac era. It was rough! I’ve evolved a bit since then and, perhaps it is the cult of Mac, but things are fairing much better now. #gofigure – to borrow from Twitter: GIVE ME THE WORKS So I foolishly bought a Mac computerRead… Read more »
From the Government Business Examiner by Donna L. Quesinberry When performing a search on Clay Shirky (an adjunct professor in NYU’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program [ITP]), the result is no less than 20 pages of factoids, videos, articles, blogs, etc. Mr. Shirky’s understanding of the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology and howRead… Read more »