This blog post is cross-posted from Google Developers Blog. Google supports diversity and inclusion in all of its communities, including users, employees, and developers. In that spirit, Google Developers Live launched Women Techmakers (WTM) in November, an initiative to bring visibility to women in technology who are fearlessly innovating, honing technical expertise, and testing theRead… Read more »
Discuss how analytics solutions are providing state and local agencies with insights into decision-quality information. These insights will help you stay ahead of trends and risks, manage budgets more effectively for the greatest returns, and predict outcomes to drive effectiveness and efficiencies. Chapter highlights include: What Is Analytics for Government? Measuring the Impact of DecisionsRead… Read more »
Graduate school is a challenge, no matter how you look at it. Intensive courses, fieldwork, internships — not to mention the amount of writing and reading that must be done. But no one ever said it would be easy. Adding a full-time job on top of a grad school regimen, however, can break your schedule,Read… Read more »
I recently watched this TED Talk on the power of introverts, and, being an introvert myself, was inspired by Susan Cain’s insights. So many of her points were spot on, and I wanted to share her wisdom with the GovLoop community. Cain begins her TED Talk by telling the audience a story about her childhoodRead… Read more »
2013 is literally around the corner. The topic of goals and objectives arises frequently this time of year. Many organizations (and individuals) have begun to update their strategies and create new goals for the New Year, have you? Hopefully you have, and if you haven’t, well – you may want to add it to yourRead… Read more »
Prudent partnerships add significant value to your team and clients Last night was our annual holiday party and for the first time we expanded our party beyond our team. We didn’t bring in clients, but we brought in our close partners. Looking back now, I think this was long overdue because so much of ourRead… Read more »
By RyanKamauff As an avid Android user, I have not bought any Apple products for personal use since an iPod 3rd Generation went belly up on me almost 5 years ago. The battery or some other internal mechanism went, and I have never looked back (well more than once or twice). I thought the iPodRead… Read more »
Last week, GovLoop and YGL hosted a half day training event for up and coming government leaders, who heard from experts on the topics of career management, leadership, communications, and more. One of the sessions, titled “Become a Brilliant Communicator,” provided tips on communicating via email and telephone, giving and receiving feedback, and holding successfulRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda The State of Social Media. The Socialnomics video on the state of social media has been updated for 2013. There’s also a non-Fat Boy Slim version. Biggest changes I noticed: Facebook now tops one billion members, and 92 percent of children under two have a “digital shadow.” The Governor of the State ofRead… Read more »
Welcome to the cube farm; pictured is my office, at least a small part of it. I – like many of my fellow paper farmers – have been allotted an internal plot of carpet with no direct access to natural light. While paper doesn’t necessarily need light to flourish, paper farmers do, at least thisRead… Read more »