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White House tries hand at wiki-style policy development
In the third phase of the initiative, the Obama administration is asking the public to help draft recommendations for making the federal government operations and information more transparent.
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Forum moderator: Friend, not foe
The old adage about “moderation in all things” takes on new meaning when it comes to national online dialogues.
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Rules of the road
A moderation policy is an essential element of any online dialogue, experts say.
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Birthers find FCW
Federal Computer Week received its share of abuse after saying the Open Government Dialogue had been slimed by individuals demanding that President Barack Obama produce evidence that he is a natural-born citizen of the United States.
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White House wants prizes for innovators
White House officials want to learn how the government can use cash prizes to foster innovation, official says.
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GAO: DOE needs to establish data performance goals
The Energy Department doesn't have adequate reporting measures in place to quantify how much success its national laboratories have in producing scientific research that private industry and others can use to develop new technologies, according to the Government Accountability Office.
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Spacebook launches at NASA Goddard
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has developed a homegrown social-networking application that provides all NASA employees with the types of features found in Facebook but in a secure environment.
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Editor's Desk: All in moderation
What do you think? I mean, really. We’d like to know what’s on your mind, writes FCW Editor-in-Chief David Rapp.
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New thoughts invited: ACT-IAC's CXO dinner gets ideas flowing
ACT-IAC gets government and industry leaders together to look at the five pillars of transparent government being proposed by CTO Aneesh Chopra and CIO Vivek Kundra. Each table took one of the pillars and was asked to come up with a succinct definition, describe what success would look like, identify barriers to success and come up with three to five actions to accomplish the purpose.
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Social media apps defy government skeptics
Social-media proponents, on the defensive for so long, have reason to believe they are swaying the skeptics at federal agencies.
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Future Combat Systems: Lessons learned
A GAO official told a Senate subcommittee that FCS' successes and failures should inform the design of future modernization efforts.
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Open Government Dialogue: More greatest hits
Here is a selection of some of the latest ideas to surface during the second phase of the Obama administration's Open Government Dialogue.
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Kelman: Hybrid workforces complicate outsourcing reforms
Federal HR practices, more than sound contracting strategy, encourage blended workforce creation.
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Know your audience
There are six types of users who visit government Web sites, and a comprehensive open-government strategy must address each of them.
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Inventing Acquisition 2.0
The government needs a paradigm shift in the way it acquires goods and services. Web 2.0 tools and platforms could help form the foundation of a new system.
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EPA provides business intell, analytics tools in SaaS model
Environmental Protection Agency discovers that, despite a few glitches, Oracle business intelligence software can be shared across the entire agency.
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Writing from the dark side
1105 Government Information Group President Anne Armstrong hopes to shed some light with her new blog, Alinea.
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Spacebook brings secure social networking to NASA
The application is available to all NASA employees via the agency's intranet.
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