Its Friday! The holidays are approaching and we have gotten our 50,000th member: Melanie Schoeppe an MPP student at the Goldman School for Public Policy at UC Berkeley. GO BEARS! To honor the event, Melanie is our Top Member this week. To read more from Mr. GovLoop, Steve Ressler, about this momentous occasion check outRead… Read more »
Has anyone else noticed a lack of curiosity among office members? I have a difficult time getting people to try new applications, or try new capabilities in existing programs. Implementing SharePoint is difficult because people just don’t want to try anything new. Just do my job the same way I have always done it, neverRead… Read more »
Given our propensity for micromanagement I suspect many will look at the idea of micro-tasking with come skepticism, but I think the idea is worth exploring (as do others). A primer For the uninitiated, micro-tasking is simply the breaking-down of more complex tasks into smaller, more manageable chunks. The most widely talked about micro-tasking serviceRead… Read more »
Microsoft has shown once again that it can act decisively and smartly improve its offerings in doing so. It has “disrupted” itself in a way that will be positive for the community and probably the Microsoft bottom line. In a November 11 blog post, Microsoft announced that it would not be moving forward with aRead… Read more »
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WILEY REIN NEWSLETTER. The November 2011 Wiley Rein Election Law Newsletter is online here. TRIAL DATE FOR EDWARDS. Story here. “U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles, sitting in Greensboro, N.C., scheduled jury selection to begin Jan. 30 and first evidence in the case to be presented Feb. 13, Politico reported Wednesday.” HOUSE ETHICS MOVES ONRead… Read more »
The University of Utah will test an electric bus that recharges without plugs or wires thanks to a $2.7 million FTA TIGGER III grant. Original post
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Location, location, location. A lot of people moving to GovLoop–more than 50K at last count! One of those people, Lovisa Williams, asked how GovLoopers (especially federal government employees) were using Google+. Ines Mergle, writing at Gov in the Lab, shared an infographic that helps answer that question. Beyond “Go Slow to Go Fast.”Read… Read more »
Deltek Analysts Randi Powell and Joseph Lee report. The Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) Grant Program was established in 2005 under the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDOE) Institute of Education Sciences (IES) as a competitive cooperative agreement grant. The grant was intended to allow states to manage and analyze education data such as student records.Read… Read more »
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that 46 transit projects will share $112 million in grants from FTA’s sustainability initiative. Original post