Let's Talk Parks

MAY 6, 2021

To support professionals and agencies, we need to understand how to utilize technology for good. You need to take a good look at your needs, then your resources, and decide what makes the most sense for your team. We’ve created a culture of innovation to be the #leadingedge. Working in government can be tough.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

To discuss this, Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently hosted a webinar, Rethink how to hire and retain top performing talent , which assembled a panel of government officials and workforce planning experts. Foster a culture of skills training. During these training efforts, Healey focused on cultural diversity as a critical piece. “I

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Cloud-based technology can make agencies more efficient and reduce stress on government workforces. During a recent online training entitled “Top Reasons Agencies Are Moving to Cloud in 2023,” GovLoop heard from three government and industry experts, who discussed why agencies sometimes balk at adopting cloud solutions.

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GovLoop

MAY 2, 2023

Government workforce expert Mika Cross, a widely acclaimed speaker, strategist and innovator, recently sat down with Thevee Gray, Personnel Psychologist at the United States Department of Agriculture, to chat about creating workplace connectivity in her latest installment of the “Management Minutes With Mika” video series. Favorite

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Partnership for Public Service

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In December, the Partnership for Public Service hosted a virtual event with Jason Love, a program analyst and award coordinator at the Department of Health and Human Services, to share how federal communicators can shape positive narratives about government and amplify agency success stories. Here are three key takeaways: 1.

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GovLoop

MAY 15, 2023

In lieu of the dry language so typical of government communications, the agency uses Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram to reach constituents through a mix of quirky humor, fun facts, and attractive photos and videos. The quizzes are informational and timely, but they’re also infused with pop culture references.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

DECEMBER 30, 2020

No disrespect to the complex and difficult technical, often transactional work that is being done, often well, to change the nature of our interactions with many aspects of governing. Fortunately, for the first time in a generation, government has the upper hand. That is a good thing. Quote the opposite. Mariana Mazzucato).

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The results are more prepared employees who are both growing and motivated, better leaders, a better learning culture and greater retention. But it’s also good for the mentor. Resources Many agencies and offices have their own mentoring materials and programs that could be useful for mentors and mentees in government.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

National elections in the United Kingdom are likely to bring a change in the political complexion of the government. A consistent trait has been the failure to learn and implement lessons from past events, or indeed from good practice in other European countries. Culture and inclusiveness. that are pertinent to the field.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In lieu of the dry language so typical of government communications, the agency uses Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram to reach constituents through a mix of quirky humor, fun facts, and attractive photos and videos. The quizzes are informational and timely, but they’re also infused with pop culture references.

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Social Pinpoint

APRIL 11, 2023

An effective community engagement strategy helps local governments to make more informed decisions. In local government, it should provide individuals, stakeholders, and community groups the opportunity to understand and contribute to projects and policies. So, how can local governments get community engagement right?

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Partnership for Public Service

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Good leaders at all levels are fundamental to our government’s ability to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. When leaders better understand themselves and their teammates, their interactions are more effective and enjoyable, making a lasting impact on both performance and office culture.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Good books on this are Cities Back from the Edge , The Living Downtown , and Changing Places. Cultural Quarters as Mechanisms for Urban Regeneration. Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters is discussed in my original "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" entry in 2009, but updated a bunch of times.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MARCH 30, 2023

Only recently have good practice regulations and governance begun to be enforced as cleaner supply chains become a priority across industries striving to reach national and international sustainability targets. Whilst this pressure has not significantly shifted consumer behaviour, it will soon influence buying decisions and loyalty.

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GovLoop

JULY 11, 2023

With the unemployment rate for software developers at a near-record low, government agencies find themselves competing with the private sector for sought-after tech talent. Open source acts as a force multiplier for government projects. With this program, the DoD evolved into an open source organization.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

With government-mandated climate action targets, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting requirements, and demands from end consumers on the environmental and social impact of goods and services, sustainability needs to be intrinsically linked with each organisation’s unique value proposition.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 21, 2023

Government workers who interact directly with the public give customers their first impression of not only that transaction, but the agency as a whole. To make that impression a good one, frontline workers must have the right support. And it comes in ways that aren’t always obvious.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 19, 2023

Let Data Drive a New Culture The problem with personnel data, said Jessica S. Palatka, Director of Human Resource Management and Chief Human Capital Officer in the Department of Commerce, is that it’s a record of the past, of things that have already happened. And an agency’s past culture is not going to be its future.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In the third episode of the AWS Behind the Cloud series , I sat down with John to uncover the importance of building skills to deliver results; scaling teams and programs geographically to serve the greater good; and leveraging generative AI responsibly to create more meaningful impact for business, government, and society.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It might not surprise you to learn that there’s a lot of bureaucracy in government. A “small” federal agency can have 1,600 employees, which would be a good-sized firm; the Pentagon employs several million, for which there’s no private-sector equivalent. What is the culture of this place? What are the key processes?

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 24, 2024

This was a great way to get younger members of the community engaged in what local government does at an early age and a good example of the value of hybrid engagement. Now a popular tool, Fund It is certainly seeing more use in local government budgeting processes.

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This has been a source of intense frustration, but here’s the good news: The future may be different. In late 2022, we spoke with dozens of professionals in many different government fields in order to write about the future of government jobs. Taking good care of the workforce. It could be an absolute rebirth.”

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There are a lot of myths regarding employee demotivation – that a demotivated employee lacks ability, that teams do not desire to improve, and that “good” employees do not become demotivated. As Jammer notes, the government sector offers unique opportunities to serve a bigger cause than oneself, or “working with purpose.”

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Let's Talk Parks

MAY 6, 2021

Beyond traditional media attention, this is also a good opportunity to brand this job as an “experience” – one worthy enough to post on social media. I’ve visited so many government websites that make the application process incredibly difficult. Share Your Culture & Values Often. Not right now?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

Their stories demonstrate technical excellence, leadership, collaboration, and mentorship – values that create an inclusive culture where all can thrive. It is also partly the reason why the Federal Government convened the National Women’s Health Summit. You became CEO of the Agency in 2020.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

APRIL 19, 2017

“Many of the most important functions of state and local governments – from building and maintaining roads to housing the homeless – involve contracting for goods and services supplied by the private sector,” notes the Harvard Kennedy School’s Government Performance Lab in their primer, Results-Driven Contracting: An Overview.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Simply this: A culture that values innovation seeks solutions for smarter ways to work, and along with that are tools that can accelerate collaboration, communication and transparency. Rationale: Education is good for employee retention and great for operations. Use your funds to make an impact that returns results all year long.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MARCH 27, 2024

However, I thought a quick summary would be a good primer for the rest of the article. Microsoft Purview allows data cataloging, data sensitivity labels and data governance alongside insider risk protections. We know like the transformation to an inclusive workplace; AI will require a similar culture shift.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 20, 2024

And we know that we're good at building public spaces." Paul Downtown Investment Strategy (report) DC has a similar initiative although I haven't read up on it (" Mayor Bowser unveils $400M plan to revamp downtown DC public spaces ," ) because I have so little faith in DC government's planning capacity. Paul Downtown Alliance -- St.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

There’s a lot to learn when you’re new in leadership, and the upcoming free NextGen Government Training Virtual Summit is the perfect place to gain the knowledge you need to succeed. Whether you’re an aspiring supervisor or have already found your place, our day-long virtual Summit is designed to support and develop government supervisors.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

the steady employment engine of the federal government Heathcote captures the issues well. The ground floor of the Unilever Building in HafenCity is set up similarly, with a restaurant-cafeteria open to the public, coffee shop, a convenience store featuring Unilever goods and "merch," and other public spaces. historic architecture 2.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 16, 2022

The unprecedented disruption the world faced during the past two years forced governments to rewrite the rulebook on how they serve their citizens. Enabled by cloud technology, digitized government agencies became better equipped to offer citizen and healthcare services, which helped improve and even save lives.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. A way to tie the various planning threads together is to use the cultural landscape planning approach, which looks at sites in a variety of ways, but for our purposes we focus on the elements of land, vegetation, buildings, and history. for interpretation.

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Librarian.net

JULY 29, 2021

They want to make sure their data is helping to increase representation of women and facts about women on Wikipedia but don’t know that much about the culture there and wanted some pointers on how to get started. So talk pages can be good about getting what the “backchannel” discussions about pages can be.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2020

In the US, where shelter-in-place orders have started to roll out over the last week, small businesses are starting to struggle, with many already forced to layoff staff in response to government-mandated closures. If you need to reach members of your community, there’s a good chance you may be able to connect with them through Facebook.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Some of those same local leaders are responding with a plan of their own: Convince the federal government, whose workforce is Metro’s largest customer base, to subsidize the system’s operational costs. But it is also a management failure of local government. And the State governments can vary wildly on their support.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

MARCH 6, 2021

The digital transformation of government and the public sector isn’t as easy as it looks. New, digital leadership for modern government and the public service is a lot like old, ‘analogue’ leadership in government and the public service, except where it’s completely different. And of course I have. 2 Running interference.

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