As your grassroots community takes the next step to becoming an official one, what challenges will you face? Way back in 2008, microblogging and enterprise collaboration platform Yammer launched at TechCrunch50. A week later, I became member #1 of the Yammer network at my old firm, a 25,000 person consulting firm with offices all overRead… Read more »
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A Brief Look Back at Cloud Computing in 2012
This year many organizations were looking to transition to cloud computing to find cost savings and new efficiencies. With the launch of FedRAMP and agencies challenged to take a “cloud first” mentality, cloud adoption increased in the public sector. Follow along here by viewing GovLoop’s Year in Review Guide, our related blog series, and podcasts.Read… Read more »
Redesigning Democracy Summit – Let Your Voice Be Heard!
This post was submitted by NCDD member John Coggin of the Institute for Emerging Issues at NC State University… We find ourselves in uncharted territory in the wake of the 2012 elections and in the face of upcoming challenges, such as improving the economy and addressing the nation’s debt. Continued polarization will lead to devastatingRead… Read more »
You Can’t Fix the Restaurant Until you Fix the People…
This blog post was originally posted on GovSupervisor.com. Author: Mark Leheney The supervisor was in disbelief, then shock, then rage, and finally full-out sobbing as she heard the staff talk openly for the first time about what it was like to work for her. For many years, she had run the place, doing whatever sheRead… Read more »
Where ideas go to live and/or die
I just finished reading Steven Johnson’s “Where Good Ideas Come From” and it’s an absolute must read for anyone interested in the sweet science of innovation; he’s actually got a TED talk that addresses some of these issues but it isn’t nearly as compelling as the book). I was so impressed with the book thatRead… Read more »
Organisations need to learn how to party: why digital engagement needs to be more social
I work in digital communications. In the public sector. If there’s one obsession both disciplines share, it’s the quest for ‘engagement’. It’s often said about digital engagement that ‘we’ (organisations) need to go where people go. What that actually means to me isn’t ‘the people use Facebook so we’ll use Facebook and build a pageRead… Read more »
NextGen+ The Next Generation of Leaders Making Changes at HUD
Many agencies have been prepping for the “retirement wave” hitting the Federal Government, including the Office of Personnel Management with new reforms to the Pathways Program. In addition to recruiting a talented workforce, however, agencies face the additional challenge of retaining young employees. At the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Michael Lawyer had noticedRead… Read more »
Are You Really Hiring the Best? It’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Plus your Weekend Reads
Welcome to GovLoop Insights Issue of the Week with Chris Dorobek where each week, our goal is to find an issue — a person — an idea — then helped define the past 7-days and we work to find an issue that will also will have an impact on the days, weeks and months ahead.Read… Read more »
‘But I haven’t got time’ and other assorted whinings
I’m getting really bored of hearing the ‘but we haven’t got time to do digital’ refrain. So I thought I’d tell a little story of something which happened to me on Sunday which demonstrates the economic impact of not doing digital to a company I assume most of you will have heard of: See tickets.Read… Read more »
Technology in Development that Could Bump Canada to World’s No. 1 Oil Reserve
If you’re in to oil investing, here’s a story you’re going to want to hear. It would seem as though Canada may have the world’s richest oil deposits. And, if the proper technology can be developed to unlock these crude commodities, Canada could very well position herself as the number one oil reserve in theRead… Read more »