Here is another post from Accessibility Forum 2.0 blog by Terry Weaver. The biggest problem with buying accessible electronic and information technology in the Federal government isn’t bad VPATs (or other 508 conformance documentation); it is the fact that we don’t even ask most of the time! As part of GSA’s sampling of Fed BizRead… Read more »
Today (Thursday) is Cinco de Mayo, which “celebrates the legendary Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, in which a Mexican force of 4,500 men faced 6,000 well-trained French soldiers. The battle lasted four hours and ended in a victory for the Mexican army under Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza. Along with Mexican Independence Day on Sept.Read… Read more »
Several of the CTOvision.com/ Crucial Point team, including RyanKamauff, BobGourley, AlexOlesker, have been at the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference, immersing ourselves in presentations, attending demos, visiting technology providers and integrators on the expo floor, and networking with people we admire and respect. While here we have also been collecting video and photos of several key technologies.Read… Read more »
Jeremy Grant, senior executive advisor for ID management to the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has a very large task. He is responsible for establishing a program office for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC. Find out more about how Grant is working to keepRead… Read more »
Customer service is about to become an annual performance goal for each federal department. First, there was last week’s presidential order on customer service. Then the Office of Management and Budget began pushing along compliance with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Modernization Act of 2010, which calls for agencies to measure customer service.Read… Read more »
The recent Amazon cloud crash raised the question of whether cloud is doomed for the federal government. It’s a familiar phenomenon and an unfortunate one, the projection of a single incident to impugn an entire industry. Was this incident serious enough to ruin the future of cloud computing in the federal government? FedInsider takes aRead… Read more »
Today’s tips point out that the task of winning business from the Federal Government usually isn’t done alone. Finding partners and experts who have been down this road before is a great way to avoid pitfalls and, hopefully, help your green business find success in working with the government. Here are today’s tips: 8. LookRead… Read more »
President Obama’s executive order, “Disclosure of Political Spending ByGovernment Contractors” appears to have some flaws. The purpose of theorder is to ensure that contracting decisions are “merit-based” and are “freefrom undue influence of factors extraneous to the underlying merits ofcontracting decision-making…” Nobody can argue with that, but the reportingabout political contributions by contractors that theRead… Read more »
Research Millennials: The Challenger Generation (04/13/2011) – Results from the latest global study conducted by Euro RSCG Worldwide finds Millennials, those between 18 and 29, are all about community, collaboration, and interconnectedness. They believe social media is the “new power of youth” and will play a big role in changing the world for the better.Read… Read more »
Here’s a question to mull over for a minute – who is your work spouse? I’ll give you a moment to think about it, and I’ll be back. Okay, I’m back. According to Wikipedia, the term ‘work wife’ was coined in the 1930s by Faith Baldwin’s novel of the same name. Eighty years later, youRead… Read more »