Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet ever six years ago today. These are the first 30 tweets ever. Back when Twitter was just twttr. The High Five Toward a More Resourceful City – If you read a lot of urbanism blogs, you would think cities’ futures depend on placemaking, efforts at combatting climate change andRead… Read more »
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How to Avoid Hidden Costs of the Cloud
Post Highlights Symantec releases report identifying hidden costs of cloud adoption Leadership and training is key to keeping data and information safe in the cloud Rogue cloud implementation and back up and recovery are important strategies to consider Agencies have been looking at cloud computing as a way to reduce waste, increase efficiency and cutRead… Read more »
Debt Ceiling Extension Paves Way for Budget and Alternative to Sequestration
The House of Representatives passed a bill on January 23rd enabling the federal government to keep borrowing money until May 18th. Senate leaders as well as the White House indicated they would pass the measure. This bill includes a provision withholding pay for Congressional members unless a budget is passed by April 15th. The billRead… Read more »
Want to use a government facility for your next meeting? Here’s a new tool that helps (a little).
By Lance A. Simon, CGMP, GVEP The SGMP National Chapter (NATCAP) monthly meetings are always interesting, but this week’s session was particularly interactive, even raucous. The discussion was about the use of government facilities as meeting spaces. The star panel presenter was Ms. Pathina Fitzgerald, Project Manager for GSA’s fledgling Federal Meeting Facilities Tool (FMFT)Read… Read more »
Have All Presidents Been Inspiring Speakers? 4 Insights from Inaugural Addresses
Margaret Perlis wrote a great piece in Forbes entitled, “8 Public Speaking Lessons From 57 Inaugural Speeches: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.” After reading through every inaugural speech over the past 228 years (and finding that it was “like eating a head of raw broccoli … very substantive, but tough to get through.”),Read… Read more »
Tweets about Twitter Offer Interesting Insights
Curious about Twitter, not just as a social media platform but also as a company? Using a sample of recent tweets, this post offers a glimpse into the company’s leadership, its role in society, and how the platform and its features are evolving. Though neither comprehensive nor in-depth, this glimpse provides insights into the complexityRead… Read more »
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Find a Better Job Go To Jobs.GovLoop.Com GovLoop Mentors Program make a difference, advance your career Rock Your Resume Learn how to Transform and Tweak your Resume Path to PMF Managing the Application Process Guide Welcome to the Career Resources Hub, your one-stop shop for everything you need to know about landing, keeping and enhancingRead… Read more »
GOP Wants VA Chief of Staff Fired: DorobekINSIDER 7 Stories
On GovLoop Insights’ DorobekINSIDER: Government IT is constantly evolving, cloud, big data, mobile — the list goes on and on. So how do you chart a path through the change? Insight from the Executive Leadership Conference. Click here for the full recap. We are just a month away from the election and no matter whoRead… Read more »
Weekly Round-up: September 28, 2012
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Social Engineering in a Flow Chart. I’ve been writing about social media risk quite a bit recently, and now this Washington Post article details one aspect: hackers using social engineering (what some in the business call a “chair-to-keyboard interface error“) to intiaite cyber attacks. Social Media Blurring. Twitter adopts some Facebook design language.Read… Read more »
Best Practices for Data Center Consolidation- Online Training
Remember the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative that came out in early 2010? I sure hope so, because there has been a lot happening in the government space. In fact, GovLoop hosted an event earlier this year which included a very robust conversation. It was so popular and education filled, we are bringing it toRead… Read more »