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GSA Makes Smart Move in Shifting SmartPay Conference to Virtual Event

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Originally posted on GovLoop by Andrew Krzmarzick.

A couple months ago, an article on the Federal Times caught my attention as it declared, "GSA cancels 2014 Expo, SmartPay goes virtual." Curious, I reached out to the GSA SmartPay team to learn more about their move from in-person to online for this event. Below is a summary of my interview with them.

Q1: How did you make the decision to move the GSA SmartPay training forum from in-person to online?

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Government’s Going Virtual: The Transition From In-person to Online Events and Training

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Originally published by Steve Ressler on The Huffington Post

Everything is happening virtually these days. Courses, career fairs, conferences and even concerts are increasingly conducted online, educating and entertaining global audiences. While television has to some degree played this role for the past several decades, what makes this trend noteworthy is that it's happening on the web.

For the public sector, in particular, virtual events are gaining traction due to a "perfect storm" of overlapping factors -- namely, extensive travel restrictions, greater public scrutiny on in-person conferences and advancement of interactive communications technology.

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Government Conferences Attacked: Is the Solution Virtual?

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Originally posted by Emily Jarvis on GovLoop

As you know, government conferences are under fire. Two officials have now resigned from the VA owing to excessive expenditures, rules are being tightened, and budgets are shrinking.
 
So what is the future of government conferencing? Are they still necessary for the good of government? Yes says Theo Mayer. But in a different form. Mayer is the cofounder and CTO of Hybrid.

GSA Offers Online Training in Conference Etiquette

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Originally posted by Brittany Ballenstedt on GovExec

This year has not brought the most positive of headlines for the General Services Administration, particularly after revelations agency officials spent excessively at an over-the-top Las Vegas training conference that featured a mind reader, bicycle giveaways and extravagant receptions.

But now the agency is using that "mistake" as a catalyst for an effort to train other employees on conference etiquette, a topic that will serve as one of the first courses of its new virtual training program set to launch in January, Lauren Concklin, a marketing analyst with GSA, said Thursday during a webinar sponsored by GovLoop.

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