Why Feds don’t respect their Leaders, More with less for CIOs and Matchmaking with the SBA and Gov’t by GovLoop Insights On today’s program for Wednesday May 2nd 2012 How would you rate leadership in your organization? A new assessment from the Partnership for Public Service shows — not great. We’ll find out why andRead… Read more »
The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Wednesday the 18th of April, 2012 Lawmakers are asking for more time to pass a final bill to restructure the postal service. And they’re asking to delay the first round of post office closures to make it happen. The Postal Service has put more than 3,000 postRead… Read more »
With the passage of the Jobs Act, small investments have become legal, allowing for a new wave of innovation in the sphere of company financing. Michael Norman, co-founder of WeFunder, spoke with Chris Dorobek about his new platform allowing for crowdsourcing investment in Gov 2.0. Smaller investments have the potential to reinvigorate Gov 2.0, asRead… Read more »
Crowdsourcing funding, Fired for Bashing the President on Facebook, and Intimate at Conferences… by GovLoop Insights On today’s program for Tuesday May 1st, 2012: Crowd-funding. It is now legal and might just be a way to fund small businesses that could focus on government challenges. We’ll talk to the man behind WeFunder. Can you beRead… Read more »
With all the brouhaha over conferences following the GSA situation, it makes the time you spend at conferences even more important. There was a time just a few years ago when people would say that conferences were so 1990s — a relic of the past to be swallowed up by online interactions. That hasn’t provenRead… Read more »
The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Tuesday the 1st of May 2012 Congress is getting closer to a fina transportation bill to maintain highway and transit aid. Unless the House and Senate can agree, funding ends June 30. But Federal News Radio says election year pressures are driving Republicans and Democrats to findRead… Read more »
Interior Dept. Transforms IT, Federal Register gets easier to use and how the SBA is pitching in by GovLoop Insights On today’s program for Monday April 30th, 2012: Imagine going without the Internet — at all. That is what the Interior Department had to do… for years. The agency has a new IT strategy —Read… Read more »
Acquiring government contracts can be no easy task for small businesses. That’s where the Small Business Administration comes in. The SBA works with small businesses and federal agencies to help connect them. Christopher Dorobek spoke with Michael Chodos of the SBA on his radio show the DorobekINSIDER about what the SBA is doing for smallRead… Read more »
The SEVEN stories that impact your life for Monday April 30th 2012… Secret Service trips are about to get a lot more strict. The Service has imposed new new rules aimed at tightening oversight of its employees on international trips in the wake of the Colombia prostitution scandal. The Washington Post says the new rulesRead… Read more »
Welcome to GovLoop Insights Issue of the Week with Chris Dorobek. 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. ThereRead… Read more »