Humans of the Federal Government

[melodykramer]

Space for @onezerojeremy and me to kick around ideas, publicly, about how to showcase work across the federal gov't.

[melodykramer]

Questions that would spark good stories:

1. Can you share a time when a coworker saved the day?
2. Can you share a time when you felt really good at work?
3. Tell me what you're proudest of at work.
4. Can you tell me about a time when your team had to change directions and it worked out?
5. Who do you admire in your office and why?

[afeld]

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[jackiekazil]

Love this idea!!!
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[melodykramer]

Another idea: profiling people from across the federal government who are doing really great work in our newsletter and on our blog. Using our platforms as a way to raise up others who are working within their own agencies.

a) How to find people?
b) How do we connect those people with each other?

Code for America does this really well. I profiled them, as a case study, in my Nieman report. Search 'Code for America' here. I like the way they build up technologists and cities at the same time.

[meiqimichelle]

I love the across the federal government thing @melodykramer . I'm sure we'd be full-up on people for a while just asking in our circles for inspiring colleagues. Connecting those people -- I'm not sure. I'm also not as worried about that as part of the 'first release' of this idea. I think it is more important to keep profiling the great work that feds are doing all the time for an audience that might not necessarily think of 'inspiration' and 'federal' in the same sentence. :)

[melodykramer]

Yes, agreed.

[kategarklavs]

@melodykramer Two things:

1. I LOVE this idea
2. Re: finding folks — +1 to asking our colleagues for nominations. We could also get in touch with the Open Opportunities folks to get in touch with government employees who are working collaboratively across agencies.

[melodykramer]

@kategarklavs that's a great idea!

[mbland]

As far as connecting folks, that's a huge part of the idea of 18F/usds-hub, in that we'll give visibility to who's working on what, for what team, at what agency. Given the progress on 18F/team-api and the interest that Sarah Sullivan from USDS HQ seemed to show in the idea earlier this week, I anticipate being able to start getting that idea off the ground in August.

That said, I'm all for parallel efforts that attack the problem from different angles. Just wanted to put this one on the radar.

[kategarklavs]

@melodykramer I'm glad you're in favor(!)