Ideas

Pot Tops Tweets for Obama Town Hall

People

More federal agencies blog on Tumblr

Tumblr is growing in popularity as a blogging platform for federal agencies, and a Tumblr executive explains why.

People

Online influence: How does your agency rate?

President Barack Obama leads in online influence, but federal agencies and other executives vary in their online clout scores, according to the Klout.com index.

Digital Government

Group claims credit for Fox News Twitter hack

A group of hackers named the Script Kiddies has taken responsibility for a series of messages posted on Fox News' Twitter account over the July 4 weekend claiming that President Barack Obama had been assassinated.

Cybersecurity

Cyberattack hits Energy lab

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has shut down its website and Internet access as a result of an attack that shows some similarities to one that hit Oak Ridge National Laboratory in April.

People

Agencies can ask teleworkers to work during hurricanes

Federal HR officials are told how to handle the upcoming hurricane season that's predicted to be busier than normal.

Cybersecurity

Attacks take Energy labs offline

The Pacific Northwest National Lab and the Thomas Jefferson Laboratory National Accelerator Facility shut down outside Internet access after a cyberattack.

Digital Government

Los Alamos lab to restart supercomputers

After a wildfire forced the lab's closure, officials are preparing to restart the Cray and IBM supercomputers used for weapons research.

People

What Kundra's legacy says about federal IT

Efforts to assess the federal CIO's successes and failures are complicated by the reality of the federal IT bureaucracy.

Digital Government

Hurricane center cautiously tests social media waters

The National Hurricane Center in Miami is on Facebook and Twitter for the first time during the 2011 storm season, but don't look for big changes.

People

The challenges of including contractors in the federal workforce size debate

It won't be easy for Congress to count and possibly cut the number of contract employees -- for a variety of reasons.

Acquisition

Insourcing vs. outsourcing: The never-ending story

The debate about the blended workforce has proven a favorite topic of FCW readers.

Cybersecurity

Lessons from Estonia: Preparing for a major cyberattack

The wired Baltic nation has become a proving ground for attackers as well as an intellectual center for rethinking cybersecurity, says Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves.