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Transition Watch: Obama to post weekly message on YouTube
The Obama White House will also conduct online question-and-answer sessions and video interviews, the Washington Post reports
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DOD seeks expanded net-centric services
DISA wants to incorporate collaboration tools into command-and-control operations.
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Road map supports expanding CFO roles
The Council for Excellence in Government has provided a compilation of required and emerging decision-making responsibilities of federal financial management executives.
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DHS seeks input on revised infrastructure protection plan
The Homeland Security Department is asking for suggestions as it prepares to publish a new version of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan next year.
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Buzz of the Week: Obama, the tech president
President-elect Barack Obama is preparing for a much-hyped technologically advanced administration by picking a chief technology officer for the government.
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Transition Watch: CSC VP to review GSA for transition team
Team will prepare incoming administration to address the agency's issues.
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Ruling could end some set-aside programs
A court ruled that the Defense Department could not justify contract preferences for minority-owned businesses because DOD could not show that they were being discriminated against.
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Transition Watch: Obama CTO needs clear authority, former feds say
The new position needs the power to effect collaborative and technical transformation.
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Transition Watch: Talk heats up about CTO job description
As well as speculation over who would take the job as the government’s chief technology officer under President-elect Obama, there’s almost as much talk about what the CTO would do once in office.
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A tipping point for NIEM?
Policy initiatives have aided the fast adoption of information-sharing standards framework.
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Google tool seeks to track flu trends
The query-based system may be as much as two weeks faster than traditional disease-surveillance methods.
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Leadership by the book
DOD’s Dave Wennergren spreads a gospel of trust, information sharing and enlightened management through selective reading.
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The 13 behaviors for cultivating trust
These behaviors stem from character, competence, or a combination of the two.
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The 4 cores of credibility
The key to building trust in organizations is alignment — linking an organization’s design around those cores and behaviors.
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Organizational success: A matter of trust
Leaders will reap dividends if they align their organizations with core principles and behaviors that increase trust.
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Transition Watch: Obama's team to check Facebook pages
The president-elect's team is researching job candidates more carefully than past administrations, even asking for links to Facebook pages, according to the New York Times.
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