Free NASA Console Video Game, Justice Sues Telecom for not Providing Customer Information, and More

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Senator Al Franken suggested that Congress may need to pass legislation limiting the way government agencies and private companies use facial recognition technology. More here. Obama administration officials opposed Digital Accountability and Transparency Act after it was approved by the House of Representatives. More here. TheRead… Read more »

GSA Associate Administrator Speaks to Cloud Environment and FedRAMP Implementation

Currently, there is a great deal of buzz surrounding the movement toward Cloud environments within government. From discussions of significant cost savings to hesitations surrounding security concerns, most government agencies have begun to weigh the pros and cons of migrating information and operations to the Cloud. David L. McClure, now Associate Administrator of the OfficeRead… Read more »

You Are a Brand: What is your Self-Brand?

You Are a Brand!Destiny is a dramatic word—but really, the first step in branding is identifying your business destiny. Whether you are an employee or an executive, a professional or an entrepreneur, you need to determine your personal brand, the unique value you – and only you – bring to your organization. Catherine Kaputa DescribeRead… Read more »

2012 Digital Counties Winners Announced: Sussex County, NJ

The Center for Digital Government and the Digital Communities program has announced the winning counties in this year’s survey competition to identify leaders in the digital field. Four winners were named in various population categories. These four leading communities implemented new initiaties this year that created positive results and cost savings for, despite scarce funding.Read… Read more »

Big Data and Hadoop: Information You Can Use to Start Your Deployment

Carahsoft is hosting a webinar that will include an introduction and context by me on the topic of Big Data and Hadoop and then dive into some fantastic context from Omer Trajman, VP of Technology Solutions at Cloudera. Omer will provided an update on CDH and Cloudera Enterprise, two of the most popular capabilities forRead… Read more »

The 17 Ways Microsoft Office Provides Real Impact For Better Government

Tony Tai (Redmond, WA) — Cloud computing can help governments increase productivity and improve collaboration while reducing IT costs. But which cloud productivity solution should you choose: Microsoft Office or Google Apps? Microsoft has decades of experience working with government at all levels, in over 100 countries. After weighing the options, governments from the StateRead… Read more »

Fall Telework Town Hall Meeting – September 25, 2012

Telework Exchange is a great advocate for telework. They sponsor a free telework town hall meeting in the Spring and Fall. You can register for the Fall Town Hall meeting, and get the full agenda, at https://www.teleworkexchange.com/events/town-hall-meeting/home/1706. The cool thing about this conference (besides being free for Feds) is that there are two tracks –Read… Read more »

Reputation vs. What have you done for me lately?

I recently read an article in INC. Magazine titled 9 Beliefs of Remarkably Successful People, by Jeff Haden, and was struck by several of his key points. In the article, which is well worth your reading, he points out a number of beliefs that will certainly set your ego-based brain thinking. A little reflection onRead… Read more »

Klout for Enterprise 2.0 Networks is a Bad Idea

“The performance review of the future will include services like Salesforce.com’s Chatter and its Influencers feature, which measures how much weight you carry among your peers” This is a quote from a recent Fast Company article discussing how enterprise social networks behind corporate firewalls are using Klout-like tools to measure how “influential” you are withinRead… Read more »

The Art of Network Operations

As I’ve discussed in previous posts, creating a strategic network has many parallels to building a computer network. In this post we’ll discuss how to keep that network running and how to optimize it for your professional and personal benefit. Managing your strategic network is more of an art than a science, but there isRead… Read more »

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