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Is your Web site friendly?
Not having a user-friendly site is as bad as not having one at all, AOL exec says
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More than text and talking
Given the shortage of people with technical skills in the United States, logic dictates that distance learning, or Internetbased training, will become a vital part of developing the technical work force of the future. Although most would agree that Internetbased training is no substitute for a good instructor in a classroom, the convenience and cost savings of the new method make it impossible to ignore.
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Making quick turnarounds
Expected benefits of the Deployment Personnel Accountability and Readiness Tool
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Of politics and premiums
Federal employees enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program are going to see their premiums rise in 2001
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Workers to count on
Sharon Connelly had been unemployed for four years when she was hired as a temporary worker at the Census Bureau's Baltimore data capture center. The center is one of three temporary sites along with Phoenix, Ariz., and Pomona, Calif. established by the bureau to handle the massive amounts of information coming in from Census 2000.
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A war, not a battle
Intelligence experts characterized the latest report on the bill from the House Armed Services Committee as little more than a tool in the struggle for control over the intelligence budget between the House and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.).
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Medicare fix may be bad medicine
Although the check may not be in the mail as quickly as doctors would like, a government plan to modernize Medicare's payment system for doctors could cost too much to adopt.
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Delaware OKs digital signatures bill
State officials hope the new law will promote electronic commerce in the state, which has a high number of Fortune 500 firms
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Intell turf battles rage
Major portions of a bill that would authorize appropriations for the U.S. intelligence community would significantly limit the Defense Department's ability to support military operations, warn Defense Secretary William Cohen and his top military adviser.
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Trusted at Treasury
Don Hagerling doesn't wear a uniform. His basement office at the Treasury Department is nonthreatening no cameras, monitors or metal detectors, not even a signin sheet for visitors.
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Dependable systems
The central problem in information technology management has shifted. Runaway systems development projects have given way to a new central concern that of making systems dependable.
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Air Force consolidates readiness information
An Air Force lab has developed an application that, through a combination of smart cards and database integration technology, could provide commanders with uptotheminute information on personnel readiness.
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Navy zooms in on imagery intelligence
Technology that has delivered highdefinition television to tens of thousands of 'Monday Night Football' fans may soon furnish the military with digital imagery intelligence.
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DOT becomes courseware carrier
Federal users have less reason every day to build their own World Wide Webbased training sites.
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Letters to the Editor
As an agency information technology manager, I am strongly in favor of an overall federal chief information officer.
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A tall order for FirstGov
Everyone is talking about e-government. That's puzzling because no one can say what e-government really is and so no one really knows what's being talked about.
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E-learning gets easier
For agencies setting up Internetbased distancelearning systems, the market is brimming with choices
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Agencies tap Fed Learn's online training
The demand for technology-based education is so rampant that the Federal Technology Service launched a contractual services program to help agencies sort through the multitude of offerings.
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Addition by subtraction
Working with Computer Sciences Corp., the IRS has developed a plan to phase in a master database, put even the most complicated forms online and make it easier for taxpayers to talk to the IRS.
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