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Looking for a few good friends
Now that the General Services Administration has reached an agreement with Facebook, an immensely popular social-networking tool, clearing the way for agencies to use it as they see fit, the question becomes: Why would they?
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DOD needs Web 2.0 strategy
The Defense Department has a lot to gain from the use of social-networking technology, but only if it first develops a departmentwide Web 2.0 strategy.
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Getting buyers to think security
The buying process is crucial to ensuring the security of federal networks and the systems that control the country’s infrastructure.
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Feds on Facebook: A status update
Now that agencies have a green light to use Facebook, should they? Here is a sampling of comments received on recent Facebook articles.
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Obama reverses course on FOIA
Open-government advocates applaud Obama's open-government rhetoric but are looking for tangible results.
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VA management changes pay off
The Veterans Affairs department gave its CIO more power and centralized authority to improve its track record with IT projects.
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Megacommunities: The next big idea
Cybersecurity, climate change and other complex challenges require a new kind of thinking, two consultants say
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Get a Life: Recruiters can tweet, too!
The Merit Systems Protection Board finds tweeting may be a useful way to recruit federal employees, blogger Judy Welles says.
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Cureton: Time to face your Facebook phobia
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center CIO Linda Cureton provides some straightforward advice to those who are timid about embracing Facebook.
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Government takes Web 2.0 with a Web 1.0 mindset
The buzz suggests that enterprise 2.0 is poised to change how we work and govern. But that is not happening yet. Instead, most experiments with enterprise 2.0 have been limited to the creation of additional communication channels. There is much more the tools could do.
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FCW Insider: Overworked feds and acquisition reform
There's no getting away from it, readers say: The federal acquisition workforce is overworked and everybody's paying the price.
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Obama creates health reform office
White House health reform office would provide leadership to form policies and priorities for federal efforts to improve access and quality of health care.
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GSA's Johnson to join Deep Water Point
John Johnson, who is retiring from GSA May 2, joins four other partners at consulting firm Deep Water Point, which advises companies seeking business in the federal market.
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Get a Life!: Work life balance has no gender
A new study that finds balancing work and family has no gender, and work life is likely to be a priority of the new OPM director, writes blogger Judy Welles.
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FCW Insider: In defense of security certifications
One reader offers a dissenting view on the value of requiring security professionals to achieve industry-standard certification.
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Chilton: Cybersecurity is each user's responsibility
Some of the military's vulnerability to cyberattacks is because users don't take security seriously, general says.
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House chairmen want to stop performance pay
Senior Democrats urge OMB to review how to improve federal performance management following the freeze of DOD’s pay-for-performance system.
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Kolodner to retire from federal government
The national coordinator of health IT plans to retire once his successor, Dr. David Blumenthal, is ready to take over the office, Government Health IT reports.
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Martha Johnson may bring old era back to GSA
Current and former General Services Administration employees are excited about the new leadership Johnson would bring to the agency.
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