Digital Government
State deploys low tech social media to reach those without computers
Stripped-down process for town hall meetings includes displaying presentations in text-only formats, printing transcripts and soliciting questions via text messaging.
Digital Government
Defense asks the public for help forming social media policy
Pentagon launches a first-of-its-kind blog to ask individuals their opinions about what stipulations the military should put on sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Digital Government
Marines and Social Nets: We Goofed
Despite more than 1,000 news reports to the contrary, the Marine Corps <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090807_7858.php?oref=topnews>did NOT ban</a> access to social network sites this week.
Digital Government
Newmark on Gov 2.0, IT Workers
Wired Workplace sat down with Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.org, on Thursday in San Francisco to talk about Government 2.0, the generational divide and other federal IT workforce issues.
Cybersecurity
Government rethinks ban on tracking Web site visitors
The government could adopt consumer technology, but it would require policy changes.
Cybersecurity
Peer pressure: Congress plans file-sharing ban
Peer-to-peer software, used to easily share computer files, poses a security risk and has no place on government or contractor networks, according to some members of Congress who held a hearing about the technology recently.
Cybersecurity
Auditors hit HUD, immigration services
USCIS and HUD were scolded for gaps in IT management, but USCIS hit back.
Cybersecurity
Biometrics integral to modern combat
Biometrics are essential for modern warfare and can bridge organizational gaps, experts say.
People
How NHIN will change health care communications
If the retail catalog industry has kept the U.S. Postal Service on life support during the past decade or so, then doctors, hospitals and pharmacies certainly must be given credit for sustaining the dying — but not yet dead — prospects of landline phone companies.
Digital Government
How to get telework right
Federal Computer Week convened a virtual roundtable with three telework program managers that run some of the most successful programs in government to find out what works with new telework programs — along with the major remaining stumbling blocks.
Ideas
Hackers Silence Political Speak
The latest reports about Thursday's denial-of-service attack that brought down Twitter and slowed Facebook point to a Georgian blogger as the hacker's primary target. Allegedly, the attack was intended to silence his pro-Georgia commentary posted on multiple social media sites.
People
Loonsk: More organizations should join health network
Dr. John Loonsk, chief medical officer at CGI Federal, served as director for interoperability and standards within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the Department of Health and Human Services from 2005 to earlier this year. While there, he played a key role in the early development of the Nationwide Health Information Network strategy.
People
Dr. Blumenthal: NHIN architecture a 'work in progress'
Dr. David Blumenthal, HHS' Naitonal Coordinator for Health IT, gives an exclusive interview to FCW on NHIN, health IT and health care reform.
People
Is the nation's health network healthy?
Although Congress is pumping billions of dollars into development of health IT, the nation's health information-sharing infrastructure is not yet ready for prime time. Some say it needs a total overhaul, while others argue for pressing on.
Modernization
Recommended Reading: Michael Jackson, botnets and digital democracy
The 12 holy sites of IT; Measuring emotion in cyberspace; A toolkit for retooling democracy; Botnets: Be scared, very scared
Cybersecurity