Hi everyone – I’m excited to be here at GovLoop! A bit about me, I’m a Director of Communications at the Government of Ontario, Canada, working in Cabinet Office. I’m also a late GenX and early Netgen kinda guy! I write to an internal Ontario gov blog and thought I’d share and cross-post some ofRead… Read more »
Federal pay debate Our country is in the middle of a deep recession with public concern about deficit spending and now the spin doctors and pundits think that federal salaries are too high. I’m a GS-11 level public servant, and all pay tables for federal employees are public information, posted at www.OPM.gov. Take my jobRead… Read more »
At the Foreign Office, we’ve made a small song and dance about the 3,000th tweet of the @foreignoffice twitter account. I can hide such vanity by noting that the 3,000th tweet is no morimportant than the 2,999 or the 3,001 (and less so if this blog is the subject). Yet it feels like a milestone,Read… Read more »
The Federal Government fiscal year 2011 budget indicates the intent to hire more federal employees. How many you ask? Over the next few years, the Center for Human Capital Information (who happens to be a member of the Portal for Talent Management in Government) indicates the number to be between 300,000 to 400,000 new federalRead… Read more »
In the last decade, technology has transformed business, media and education. Telecommuting and web conferencing are increasingly common solutions to the problem of expensive travel. New applications like Twitter and Facebook make it easier for people, businesses and brands to connect. Leaving aside the question of paper books, there are few reasons to mourn theRead… Read more »
Gov 2.0 advocates claim that their various projects in social networking and open government will, of course, lead to improved performance from government agencies and more satisfactory citizen engagement. But where is the proof? As Poister, Pitts, and Edwards (2010) conclude from their analysis of the last twenty years of strategic management in the publicRead… Read more »
Last week Twitter announced Fast Follow, a way for citizens to subscribe to your Tweets via SMS even if they don’t have a Twitter account. For example, if I text “follow StPeteFL” to 40404 I will start receiving every Tweet from St. Petersburg, FL as a text message on my phone. That’s easier than subscribingRead… Read more »
There’s been a bunch of discussion about how Clinger-Cohen has been an utter failure – that the rules are too prohibitive to be agile, that government is in the Stone Age when it comes to IT, etc. Allow me to offer a root cause: very few of our Executive Agencies have actually put the CIORead… Read more »
When: Tuesday August 17th, 10 am Est 1500 AM or listen later on demand at http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=309&sid=2023222 Panelists: Mike Teller, CIO of the DC Government, Office of the CFO, Michael Batt, Dynamics Director of SLG, Education, Healthcare Jim Townsend, CEO of Infostrat I had the privilege of appearing with Mike Teller of the DC Government andRead… Read more »
*********************************************************************** Not a Govloop Member? 30 Secs & Free to Join for Great Info & Perks *********************************************************************** So Ashley Judd just finished her Masters of Public Administration at Harvard Kennedy School and is interested in public service. As a public service, here are 5 jobs she might be good at: 1) CFC Chairperson – WhyRead… Read more »