Modernization
Rising Star Kristine Beck
Beck harnessed Web 2.0 technology to open new lines of communication with — and among — Military Health System patients and their families. Senior MHS leaders now blog regularly and respond to comments and e-mail messages on the agency’s Web site, www.health.mil.
Cybersecurity
Murphy leads Treasury's HSPD-12 charge
Mary Beth Murphy shepherded Treasury's employee ID card effort.
Digital Government
Araujo prescribes technology to improve CDC's outcomes
Rising Star John Araujo is in a unique and cross-disciplinary niche as he advances the role of IT at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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