We hope you’ll join us in congratulating our friends at the Kettering Foundation on their new opportunity to develop deliberative decision-making forums for Israeli Jews and Arabs in Israel. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most difficult problems of dialogue and bridge building in the world, and we are excited to see the KetteringRead… Read more »
NOTE: This post is sponsored by the Federal Communicators Network (FCN) Many feds are not fond of the press. In nightmares, feds worry about the programs they steward ending up “on the front page of the Washington Post,” with program weaknesses perhaps magnified by inaccurate reporting. However, as a government communicator it may be yourRead… Read more »
Gambling From Gadgets appears to be acquiring all the trouble and is rapidly invading the mobile products of people who loves to bet a lot of of the time. Mobile Phone Gambling is nowadays trending because of the technological enhancements that lift up the approach of playing online. In the instance you are about toRead… Read more »
It was another week on Wall Street where the stock indices started in the lower left corner of the chart, and finished in the upper right. One of the most frustrating, unloved rallies continues and probably won’t end until more investors feel the love. Here are the up to date TSP fund returns through MayRead… Read more »
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errsRead… Read more »
Guest blogger Jack Horan, Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Many factors go into a decision of whether to protest after a contractor finds out it was not successful in winning an order or contract: Did the agency make a mistake? How strong is my evidence? Did the mistake affect the award decision? How muchRead… Read more »
The May 22nd GSA Business Roundtable is a Myth-Busters event bringing together procurement professionals and senior executives from GSA and its industry partners for a dialogue focusing on Acting Administrator Dan Tangherlini’s new mission statement and six priorities. The mission statement and priorities can be found here. And as noted in last week’s blog post,Read… Read more »
View this document on Scribd This is the urban century. Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. By the middle of the century more than two thirds of us will. But such growth comes with corresponding challenges. Municipal governments are facing challenges of increasing complexity, including climate change and the needRead… Read more »
There’s an old adage that an unhappy customer will tell ten people about the bad service they have received. If that was ever true, it is startling how quickly and comprehensively it is untrue now. Here’s a little story unfolding in front of our eyes. The starting point is Helen Lippell being on the receivingRead… Read more »
In one form or another, data centers have been at the core of the federal government’s technology infrastructure for more than 100 years. The government’s interest in computers was sparked years before the first machines were ready for widespread use, and data centers are now vital to most agencies’ daily operations. This infographic originally appearedRead… Read more »