People

7 lessons worth learning from the Navy Social Media Handbook

The Navy's recently published Social Media Handbook has some good lessons for everyone, write Kristin Bockius and Mark Drapeau, Microsoft's resident social media experts.

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Buzz Factor

These were the most-read stories on FCW.com in the past two weeks.

Digital Government

Obama announces two-year federal pay freeze

Civilian employees will not see any raises in 2011 or 2012.

Digital Government

Air Force Extends $9 billion NETCENTS contract

Delays in $28 billion follow-on award forced the extension.

Digital Government

WikiLeaks: One analyst, so many documents

How could Bradley Manning alone have leaked so much classified material?

Digital Government

Countering WikiLeaks could stifle information sharing

Experts favor efforts to change behavior of would-be leakers rather than seeking new technical ways to protect secret government data.

Digital Government

Never a dull moment

Well, it looks like feds are being asked by the White House to share the pain of the private sector with a two-year pay freeze.

People

Open government beats FOIA for information access

People are being encouraged to bypass the lengthy legal process to request government data and go directly to agency open government offices, according to White House Deputy CTO Beth Noveck.

People

Why not more software reuse?

Blogger Steve Kelman believes the federal government could make big gains by making it a priority to reuse software wherever possible.

Digital Government

Patients Favor Online Records

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Digital Government

Minority, civil rights groups back Rush for communications panel

Groups cite Chicago Democrat for his work on 1996 telecommunications act.

Digital Government

FTC reaches settlement with websites offering bogus federal grant information

For access to the information, the websites asked consumers to provide their credit or debit card information to pay for a $1.99 processing fee.