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Federal Eye: SEC porn scandal results in zero firings

None of the Securities and Exchange Commission employees caught using government computers to view pornographic images has been fired, according to the agency. The SEC inspector general investigated 28 employees and five contractors for accessing inappropriate images and Web sites, according to a report released late last week. Of the employees, eight resigned and sixRead… Read more »

Selling Web 2.0 Technologies to Upper Management

As we work on how to use social networking technologies in Gov 2.0, I thought this article from IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management might be of some interest to practitioners. “The Strategic Implications of Web Technologies: A Process Model of How Web Technologies Enhance Organizational Performance” answers two questions: 1) “How do Web technologies supportRead… Read more »

Muhlberger & Stromer-Galley on Measurement of Deliberative Quality in Online Policy Discussions

Professor Peter Muhlberger of the Texas Tech University Center of Communications Research and Professor Jennifer Stromer-Galley of the University of Albany Department of Communication have published Automated and Hand-coded Measurement of Deliberative Quality in Online Policy Discussions, in dg.o 2009: Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Social Networks: Making ConnectionsRead… Read more »

Project of the Week: Gov2Social

Throughout the year, GovLoop will be featuring projects and people from among our 2010 Partners. This week’s Project of the Week is brought to you by Microsoft, sponsors of our Cloud Computing Topics Page, making it easier for you to find content on that key subject. The also host a great group called “Microsoft ProductivityRead… Read more »

Open Source and the NextGen Health Care IT Community

I spend a fair amount of time at Open Source conferences. I arrive with a government bias plus some of the great ideas that open source enables like transparency and open government. Although most panels/sessions/talks/round tables will eventually get around to the idea of education and work force training, I rarely see anyone responsible forRead… Read more »

Muhlberger dg.o 2010 Panel on Information Technology and Public Deliberation

Professor Peter Muhlberger of the Texas Tech University Center of Communications Research has organized a panel entitled Information Technology and Public Deliberation: Research on Improving Public Input into Government, to be held at dg.o 2010: The 11th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, to be held 17-20 May 2010 in Puebla, Mexico. The panelistsRead… Read more »