Digital Government

Feds stay home in droves for Telework Week

More than 34,000 federal employees participated in National Telework Week, 10 percent of them first-time teleworkers. What did they gain?

People

Data.gov highlights radiation monitoring and earthquake data

Data.gov is highlighting its repository of near-real time earthquake and nuclear radiation monitoring data.

Modernization

Revamping FedRAMP: GSA's cloud security upgrades

Clearing up misconceptions about the FedRAMP cloud security program with GSA's David McClure; also, what GSA is doing to improve the program.

People

E-government fund could be cut, group warns

Transparency advocates said open government would be crimped if Congress follows through on proposed bills to reduce the e-government fund to $2 million in fiscal 2011, from $34 million in 2010.

Digital Government

Tips for feds on using YouTube, making videos

Roger Holzberg of Cancer.gov and Roy Daiany of YouTube on Google offered ideas to federal Web managers on how to use video on YouTube most effectively.

Digital Government

How feds can make the most of Twitter

Federal managers need to be curators of information, but with a personal touch, to be effective on Twitter, according to an executive of the social media service.

Digital Government

GSA leader's zero footprint

Administrator Martha Johnson hit a unique mark of making little, or maybe no, impact on her environment.

People

Proving value of open government falls to agencies

A panel at IRMCO describes the hazards of opening government data to the public.

People

Telework centers: An idea whose time has come...and gone?

GSA's plan to shutter telework centers raises the question of whether it was truly telework to start with.

People

Blog fail! 3 blogs that just don't cut it.

Here are a handful of federal blogs that aren't winners, for one reason or another.

Modernization

When telework really isn't

GSA's telework centers don't provide true telework, just a different drive to the office, argues Paul Cantwell.

People

12 telework centers shuttered

Telework centers in the D.C. region had until to Monday to decide whether or not they had enough funding to keeps doors open.

Digital Government

First they giveth, then they taketh away

Well now that the opportunity for many feds to telework has been enshrined in law, a slew of government-supported telework facilities are getting the ax.