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Following is an index of blog entries between the start, September 1, 2009, and the end of April 2010, organized around some major themes:
Web 2.0 and Social Media
Launching the BizGov Blog (09-01-09)
Blogs as Public Policy Forums (09-02-09)
Cloud Forecasting: A New Report (11-12-09)
Social Media Trends for Government in 2010 (11-25-09)
Gov/Web 2.0 Predictions for 2010 (01-06-10)
Virtual USA and Web 2.0 (03-19-10)
Middle Managers in a Web 2.0 World (03-31-10)
Using GIS to Increase Citizen Engagement (04-16-10)
Open and Transparent Government
What Do You Do With 110,000 Data Sets? (09-04-09)
New Transparency: Recovery.Gov (09-30-09)
Open Government: Implementation Guidance from OMB (12-09-09)
Implementing the Open Government Directive (12-15-09)
The Open Government Dialogue (Agencies launch 5-week effort) (02-09-10)
Making Sense of Open Gov Dialogues (02-10-10)
Virtual USA and Web 2.0 (03-19-10)
Congressional Transparency Caucus Formed (03-25-10)
Open Gov Plans Countdown (04-02-10)
Open Gov Plans Released, And . . . (04-09-10)
Scorecarding Agency Open Gov Plans (04-27-10)
HUD’s Open Gov Plan Focuses on Mission (05-05-10)
Collaboration
Using Czars to Govern (09-11-09)
Creating Spirit Communities (09-30-09) (based on book by Rosabeth Kantor)
The OMB Prize Memo (03-09-10)
Harnessing Informal Networks (03-10-10)
Virtual USA and Web 2.0 (03-19-10)
Passionate About Collaboration (04-23-10)
Citizen Participation
Blogs as Public Policy Forums (09-02-09)
Citizen Participation: An Update (09-15-09)
Using Crowdsourcing in Government (09-16-09)
Engaging Citizens in Oversight (09-22-09)
Citizen Engagement Newsletter by GSA (10-01-09)
On-Line Town Halls (10-26-09) Congressional Management Foundation Study
Citizen Participation: Other Countries Are Stepping Out (12-07-09) UK and Australian Initiatives
Redefining the Role of Citizen in a Gov 2.0 World (02-04-10)
Using GIS to Increase Citizen Engagement (04-16-10)
Congress and Citizen Engagement (04-22-10)
Government Performance
The New Obama Performance Team (09-25-09)
Jump-Starting Performance Management (09-28-09) (Senator Carper Hearing)
Priorities and Principles for Performance (10-06-09) (OMB’s Zients Debute)
New Senate Task Force on Performance (10-23-09)
OMB’s New Performance Principles (10-29-09) (Zients’ Senate Budget Testimony)
More on the Senate Performance Hearing (10-30-09)
Data-Driven Performance: Senate Budget Hearing (12-11-09)
Happy Birthday GPRA! (12-16-09) by Jonathan Breul
Performance Reporting: Rhetoric vs. Reality (12-18-09) by Jonathan Breul
Using Performance Measures (12-22-09)
Managing Performance: A Series (12-23-09)
Model 1: Performance Administration (12-24-09)
Model 2: Siloed Performance Systems (12-28-09)
Model 3: Performance Management Framework (12-29-09)
Model 4: Performance Governance (12-30-09)
Obama’s FY 2011 Management Initiatives (02-02-10)
Obama’s Stealth Management Revolution (02-11-10)
The OMB Prize Memo (03-09-10)
Key National Indicators Are Now Real (03-23-10)
IRMCO 2010 (04-12-10) by Jonathan Breul (conference panel examining Obama Administration management initiatives)
Workforce and Employee Engagement
Federal Jobs: A New Era (09-03-09)
Recognizing Civil Servants (09-18-09)
Ask Employees How to Fix It, Part I (09-17-09)
ISO Good Ideas: Ask Employees, Part II (09-23-09)
Governing by Suggestion Box (10-20-09)
Dealing with Poor Performers (10-16-09)
Motivating Workers (01-04-10)
Chances to Innovate (01-08-10)
Managing Guerrilla Employees (02-12-10)
Balancing Innovation, Risk, and Control (03-03-10)
How Leaders Make a Difference (03-04-10)
Middle Managers in a Web 2.0 World (03-31-10)
Mocking Public Service (04-29-10)
Labor-Management Forums and Performance (05-04-10)
Health Care Reform
Health Care Reform Implementation (Part 1) (11-30-09)
Health Care Reform Implementation (Part 2) (12-03-09)
Doing Big Things in Government (12-01-09)
Sustaining Health Care Reform (12-02-09)
But will it work? (03-29-10) by Jonathan Breul
Implementing Health Care Reform (04-26-10)
Recovery Act
Engaging Citizens in Oversight (09-22-09)
New Transparency: Recovery.Gov (09-30-09)
Recovery Act: Shifting Mindsets (11-06-09)
Recovery Act Reporting (02-15-10)
Research Topic 2: Implementing the Recovery Act (02-24-10)
Implementing the Recovery Act: The Blog (03-17-10)
Contract Reform
The Insourcer’s Apprentice: OMB’s Jeff Liebman (10-8-09)
Out- and In-Sourcing: True Confessions (11-11-09)
Bottom-Up Procurement Reform (10-13-09)
OMB: Trying a Change in Tone to Collaborating with Agencies (10-22-09)
Acquisition 2.0: OMB’s Latest Acquisition Guidance (10-28-09)
Signs of Procurement Revolution (11-24-09)
Obama Procurement Agenda (03-12-10)
Program Evaluation and Use of Analytics
New OMB Program Evaluation Guidance (10-07-09)
Davenport: Make Better Decisions (10-27-09)
Risky Business: What is Enterprise Risk Management? (10-15-09)
Financial Management
Fiscal Sanity: Lessons from Around the World (12-08-09) by Jonathan Breul
FY 2009 Financial and Performance Reports (12-10-09) by Jonathan Breul
Debt Commission in the FY 2011 Budget? (01-04-10) by Jonathan Breul
Fiscal Summit and America’s Fiscal Challenges (05-06-10)
Presidential Transition, the First Year
Link to the IBM Center’s Presidential Transition Blog, 2008-2009
Falling Behind on Appointments (09-24-09)
Searching for a New Comptroller General (12-14-09) by Jonathan Breul
Improving the Presidential Transition (01-12-10) by Michael Keegan
TWOFER (two new reports: Assessment of Presidential Transition and Fiscal Future) (01-14-10) by Jonathan Breul
Leadership Matters (Rajiv Shah, USAID, and Haiti Earthquake) (01-15-10)
Lessons on Reform
Lessons of Reinvention (09-07-09)
Dispatch from Saudi Arabia (11-2-09) an International Conference on Public Administration
Reinventing Saudia Arabia (11-03-09)
Saudi Conference: Lessons for Us (11-05-09)
Recovery Act: Shifting Mindsets (11-06-09)
Calling on Corporate Leaders: Now vs. Then (White House CEO Forum on Modernizing Government) (01-19-10)
Finding Bright Spots (01-25-10)
Doing What Works (a new initiative by the Center for American Progress) (02-18-10)
Why Execution Stalls (03-08-10)
Modernizing Government: Forum Results (03-24-10)
Australian Management Reform (04-06-10)
White House Management Advisory Board (04-21-10)
Agency Transformation
HUD Transformation Initiative (01-12-10)
HUD’s Open Gov Plan Focuses on Mission (05-05-10)
Veterans Affairs: “Transformation 21″ and Beyond (01-21-10)
Public Management Research
Framing a Public Management Research Agenda (02-22-10)
Topic 1: Performance Improvement and Analysis (02-23-10)
Topic 2: Implementing the Recovery Act (02-24-10)
Topic 3: Federal Contracting and Acquisition (02-25-10)
Topic 4: Technology, Transparency, and Participatory Democracy (02-26-10)
A High Performance Government (04-13-10) Volcker’s new reform campaign
Oversight
Engaging Citizens in Oversight (09-22-09)
Searching for a New Comptroller General (12-14-09) by Jonathan Breul
Final Four to lead the GAO? (03-22-10) by Jonathan Breul
Congressional Transparency Caucus Formed (03-25-10)
5 (not just 4) names to be Comptroller General (03-26-10) by Jonathan Breul
Deperately Seeking a Watchdog (04-05-10) by Jonathan Breul
Conversations with Leaders and The Business of Government Magazine
The Business of Government Magazine: Fall 2009 (12-09-09) by Michael Keegan
Conversation on Human Service Delivery in New York City (02-05-10) by Michael Keegan
Allen, Thad (12-11-09) by Michael Keegan
Childs, Robert (12-29-09) by Michael Keegan
Clancy, Carolyn (02-01-10) by Michael Keegan
Fauci, Anthony (12-10-09) by Michael Keegan
Fugate, Craig (02-17-10) by Michael Keegan
Hunter, Christine (01-08-10) by Michael Keegan
Thompson, Alan (01-06-10) by Michael Keegan
Triay, Ines (01-23-10) by Michael Keegan
The Business of Government: Getting it Done 