Digital Government
Sen. Webb: Few Grunts in Vietnam
Before the Senate hands over $13.4 billion to the Veterans Affairs Department to compensate Vietnam Veterans for exposure to Agent Orange, Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., has a few questions for VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, according to <a href=http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,216344,00.html>this syndicated column</a> by Tom Philpott.
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Sexting case outcome changes the rules on workplace privacy
Supreme Court rules that government employers can look at private messages on employer-owned equipment, as long as they have a legitimate reason to do so.
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HR Leaders Tout Social Media
Human resource leaders overwhelmingly believe that social media and Web 2.0 technologies can improve communication, bringer greater efficiency to the workplace and provide insight about workers' interests and motivations, according to a recent <a href="https://www.birkman.com/consultantReferral/signup.php?refer=WhitePapers-SocialMedia">study</a> by Birkman International.
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Is cloud computing fast enough for science?
Early results from the Energy Department's Magellan cloud computing project suggest a slowdown in the cloud for some types of scientific research.
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The Public on Health IT: Huh?
The campaign to replace the country's paper medical files with interoperable electronic records is backed by the full force of the federal government, including tens of billions of dollars. The basic strategy is to entice and/or coerce the country's 800,000 or so doctors to go electronic.
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Federal Pay Freeze Defeated, Again
The Senate on Thursday rejected an amendment that would have frozen the 2011 pay increase for federal workers and cut the size of the government workforce.
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Seeking disaster relief? Who you gonna call?
FEMA chief architecture talks about DisasterAssistance.gov success stories at GTRA.
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Debate heats up on the Hill over sale of public safety spectrum
Some say auctioning off frequencies allocated to first responders will not affect emergency response, but others believe it will require more equipment and increase costs.
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Obama directs government to withhold pay from delinquent contractors
The new Do Not Pay list alerts agencies to the status of recipients of federal funds.
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Government still confused how to manage e-documents as records
More guidance, better computer systems and stronger oversight from NARA are needed to reduce the very real risk that official federal records will be improperly destroyed, archivists and IT managers tell the Hill.
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