Performance Management
Performance Review 101 – How to get real results
Emily Jarvis, GovLoop
Interview with Tom Fox, Vice President for Leadership and Innovation at the Partnership for Public Service, on best practices for employee performance reviews.

Innovation
The silent killer of innovation
Frank Konkel, Federal Computer Week
The government has access to all manner of exciting and useful technologies, but is not always able to take full advantage of them.

Open Government
Four Approaches to Crowdsourcing
John Kamensky, Business of Government
Is this a Golden Age for citizen involvement in government? As dismayed as some may be with the political process, there are growing opportunities for meaningful engagement in many areas, thanks to growing social media tools and a willingness to participate by many ordinary people.
Leveraging the power of the crowd
Emily Jarvis, GovLoop
Opening up a problem to a large community can yield brand new perspectives.
Administration releases more guidance to open up agency data
Andy Medici, Federal Times
The administration has released additional guidance to push agencies to make government data more transparent.