I’ve never been a teleworker, but with current trends, there is a strong likelihood that at some point in my career, I will be working remote for an extended period of time. Telework certainly has numerous benefits for government, and with available technology, many of the stigmas and concerns related to teleworking are becoming obsolete.Read… Read more »
I am looking forward to attending the FOSE Conference April 3-5 in Washington DC. This is the third post in a blog series highlighting the 2012 conference tracks. Throughout this week I have been highlighting one of the tracks and provided some insights to what you can expect to see at FOSE 2012. The fiveRead… Read more »
In January, NOAA moved 25,000 users to Google’s cloud email. According to a Google blog post, NOAA successfully migrated to Google Apps for Government. NOAA is now the largest government agency to move to Google Apps for Government. NOAA CIO Joseph Klimavicz said in a Google blog post that the speed and ease of movingRead… Read more »
I am looking forward to attending the FOSE Conference April 3-5 in Washington DC. This is the second post in a blog series highlighting the 2012 conference tracks. Over the next week, I’ll highlight one of the tracks and provide some insights to what you can expect to see at FOSE 2012. The five tracksRead… Read more »
One challenge that government is facing is how to best improve services for citizens and reduce costs, decrease spending and lower taxes. Technology is seen as one solution to make government more efficient in how it delivers services and interacts with citizens. To often government agencies are pressed to provide improved services and information inRead… Read more »
I am looking forward to attending the FOSE Conference April 3-5 in Washington DC. This post kicks off a blog series highlighting the conference tracks. The five tracks for the event are Cybsecurity, Cloud and Virtualization, Mobile, Defense Innovations and Records and Information Management. Over the next week, I’ll highlight one of the tracks andRead… Read more »
With so many new technologies at the disposal of IT departments to help during an emergency, IT departments need to be proactive while planning for natural disasters, outages, cyber –crime and a dozens of potential events that could jeopardize network accessibility. In a current white paper from Century Link, Century Link provides some insights asRead… Read more »
On to the last session at the Cisco Government Solutions Forum, lots of great content today and lessons learned to share back with the GovLoop community. The last session that I will be sitting in on is, Impacting Training & Development with Interactive Video..the Ripple Effect, this was part of the Mobile Collaboration track. ThroughoutRead… Read more »
Today I will be live blogging at the Cisco Government Solutions Forum. I just attended my third session of the day, titled, the Intelligent Automation for the Cloud, which was part of the Unified Data Center & the Cloud track. Sidney Morgan, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco, gave a remarkable presentation about cloud technology. Data centers haveRead… Read more »
Today I will be live blogging at the Cisco Government Solutions Forum. Session number two was titled, New Models for Government IT, which was part of the Cutting the Cost of Government track. Learning how to cut costs will continue to be a pressing issue for government. This session explores how technology can be usedRead… Read more »