Originally posted by Kedar Pavgi on GovExec
A bipartisan group of House members from Nevada want to eliminate bans on federal agencies holding conferences in casinos or resort locations.
The bill--proposed by Republican Reps. Mark Amodei and Joe Heck, and Democratic Reps. Dina Titus and Steven Horsford--says such prohibitions are counterproductive and unfairly target areas with high numbers of resort and vacation locations.
Originally posted Nicole Blake Johnson on Federal Times
Decreasing travel budgets are forcing agencies to conduct more meetings and training seminars online.
The Defense Department, for example, doubled the capacity of its Defense Connect Online system -- an internal collaboration tool -- this year to accommodate more simultaneous audio and video Web conferencing across the services. DCO's reach grew to 800,000 registered users in February, which DoD attributes to departmentwide travel and conference spending cuts.
Originally posted by CBC News
SCOTT DAVEY PROPOSES $14,500 LIMIT OVER FOUR-YEAR TERM
Kitchener city councillor Scott Davey wants to put a cap on funds available for council members in order to attend seminars and conferences.
Davey says that currently all of council shares a pool fund of $41,000 a year, but there's no limit on how much individual councillors can use.
Vienna, VA--1105 Media Group, organizers of the FOSE and GovSec Conferences & Expos, hosted a FOSE 2013 Blogger & Speaker Meet-up Thursday, March 21 at 1105 Media Group offices in Vienna, VA. Invitation-only and held specifically for government technology influencers, the FOSE 2013 Blogger & Speaker Meet-up is the fifth in an ongoing series of high-level meetings, where FOSE speakers and bloggers are given an opportunity to discuss significant topics including sequestration and government events, mobile and the government workforce, cybersecurity and more.
This meet-up included influencers Brand Niemann, Ph.D., Director and Senior Enterprise Architect - Data Scientist at Semantic Community, Ghadi Ben-Yehuda, Director of Innovation and Social Media for IBM Center for The Business of Government., Brad Barker, Director of Professional Services at Master Key Consulting and Young AFCEANs National Capitol Region President , Ajay Budhraja, Chief Technology Officer, EOIR at the United States Department of Justice, and Nick Wakeman, Editor-in-Chief at Washington Technology. The meet-up was also attended by representatives from the Capital Area Food Bank and GovEvents.
Although conference cancellations continue to trickle in, don't get discouraged. For every one cancellation, there are hundreds of new event opportunities that can provide the valuable training and education often garnered at these large conferences. In fact, as of today (March 14, 2013), 1,090 new conferences, training events, and webcasts have been posted to GovEvents since the start of 2013, and thousands more will be added throughout the year.
A frequent request from our members is an updated list of event cancellations and postponements, so here is the latest list we have. If you know of any others, please shoot us an email: info@govevents.com
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Cancelled Events Earlier this Year:
