As Inside the Reporter’s Notebook enters its third year, it’s always good to look back on which edition was most popular and which stories struck a chord. Here’s a list of the top 10, including my comments and thoughts on the top five.

1. The Office of Personnel Management’s troubles with its Employee Express system received the most readers by far. It came during the height of Open Season, and was based on a tip from a reader (hint, hint).
2. Another OPM-related story provided fodder for a June edition. The lead story was my four takeaways from the three hearings and seven hours of testimony about the massive OPM cyber breach. House lawmakers are considering more hearings in the coming month or so.
3. It’s unclear which story carried this edition, but changes to cloud computing services and the Defense Department and General Services Administration teaming up on a $1 billion contract drew on a lot of hot-button issues in 2015.
4. This report hit upon the love of gossip in the federal community with the shuffling of chairs in agency chief information officer circles. NASA, Energy and Commerce all saw changes with their IT executives. The notebook also included stories on GSA streamlining schedules and a bid protest decision that could have a major impact on mergers and acquisitions.
5. This edition was probably the one I was most proud of for the breadth and depth of the stories we try to capture each week in the notebook. The FCC story on its move to the cloud probably helped propel the notebook into the top five of the year, but the State Department cyber playbook and the two other cyber stories also were popular.
6. Talking is hard.
7. Cyber dashboards
8. DoD teaching Pentagon offices how to share.
9. Real insight into how much ground agencies needed to make up around cyber.
10. GSA schedule consolidation begins, and IoT buzz tamped down.

That’s the top 10 for the year. Check out my colleague Jared Serbu’s top DoD notebooks of the year as well.

Let us know what you think of the notebook, how it can be improved or changed to be more valuable, and of course, if you have any tips.

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