Guest blogger Jack Horan, Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP

Many factors go into a decision of whether to protest after a contractor finds out it was not successful in winning an order or contract:

• Did the agency make a mistake?
• How strong is my evidence?
• Did the mistake affect the award decision?
• How much will a protest cost?
• Will a protest affect my…

The May 22nd GSA Business Roundtable is a Myth-Busters event bringing together procurement professionals and senior executives from GSA and its industry partners for a dialogue focusing on Acting Administrator Dan Tangherlini’s new mission statement and six priorities.  The mission statement and priorities can be found …

This is the urban century. Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. By the middle of the century more than two thirds of us will. But such growth comes with corresponding challenges. Municipal governments are facing challenges of increasing complexity, including climate change and the need for sustainable, resilient and low carbon…

There’s an old adage that an unhappy customer will tell ten people about the bad service they have received. If that was ever true, it is startling how quickly and comprehensively it is untrue now.

Here’s a little story unfolding in front of our eyes. The starting point is Helen Lippell being on the receiving end of a poor experience:

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In one form or another, data centers have been at the core of the federal government’s technology infrastructure for more than 100 years. The government’s interest in computers was sparked years before the first machines were ready for widespread use, and data centers are now vital to most agencies’ daily operations.

This infographic originally appeared on…

If your department or agency isn't already on Twitter, you may be considering how and whether to get started.  If you're new to the Twitterverse, it can be a bit intimidating, particularly when navigating Section 508 accessibility concerns for people with disabilities.

In a recent issue of The Public Manager, web and social media coordinator Scott Horvath at USGS set out some simple, easy to adopt pointers for posting accessible Twitter content. 

For the full…

Guest Post by Darren Caveney, co-creator of comms2point0 and Vice Chair of LGcomms

Email? Send them an email? But, hasn’t the world all shifted across to social media, I hear you cry?

Well yes and no. A whopping 94%…

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What is the Knope of the Week? It is ELGL’s way of recognizing an individual or group of individuals who have excelled in promoting the public sector. Recipients may come from the public or private sector and are nominated by ELGL members. Recipients receive an incredible amount of recognition and prizes that we are not at liberty to disclose. The storied history of the award dates back to 2012.

Gadi Ben-Yehuda

This week: Superlatives! Big ideas! Great Quotes! Newest releases!

• The USDA has released an API for developers to…

The most prominent predictors of the future tend to be the most wrong

Geoff Mulgan

Federal & State Freedom of Information Laws (FOIL), allows citizens to obtain copies of government records.

In 2009, the Buffalo News after not receiving adequate responses to several FOIL requests wrote an editorial directed to Mayor Byron Brown…

By Bob Gourley

Fixmo SharePlace Delivers Integrated Mobile Security and DLP for Microsoft SharePoint; Supports Mobile-Specific Access Control Policies

TORONTO & STERLING, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–…

By Bob Gourley

When talking with the less-technical people in your enterprise, which may include end users and many others on the leadership team, it always pays to have non technical expressions to describe new capabilities.

Here are some thoughts on Platfora that may be of use in discussions like that.

Here is how to describe Platfora to a non-technical…

By Bob Gourley

We previously provided information on the DI2E Pluggest and Mashup event being coordinated by some forward thinking, mission-focused government thought leaders and friends at the Association for Enterprise Technology (AFEI).  The event will be held Monday 20 May at George Mason…

This is another installment of an ELGL original content series titled “An MPA From My Apt.” by University of Southern California MPA distance graduate program student Josh Halladay.  Halladay is sharing his experiences with a distance learning program in the hopes of providing perspective and support to other students who are pondering a degree using a distance or online program.

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