John Younkin

I dont really see the value proposition. An alternative approach is to have the USPS leverage the brand reputation and allow people people to leverage a digital stamp type concept that would provide some level of authenticity to the message transfer. I could envision the USPS becoming the Digital email equivilent of the certified letter – To me…[Read more]

My bet is that Microsoft will own 50% of the market in 2 years (the commercial – not federal). They are heavily investing in thier cloud, have the highest ROIC of any of thier competitors and have deep pockets to do a long tough price shootout. The only wild card factor is how application providers will change thier licensing models to support…[Read more]

Henry,

While I am nowhere close to CEO in my organization I can say that Social networking takes a significant commitment in time. That is very limited for senior executives. I would be willing to be that the CEO’s who are on social networks were put there by thier staffs. I was at a Microsoft Technology Forum and saw some tremendous technologies…[Read more]

Recovery.gov uses Drupal. I have my team spinning it up in our Lab right now. We are a big SharePoint shop but willing to see how it compares to SharePoint 11 which is very cool.

This is a key driver behind some of the ARRA reporting requirements. Currently local, state and federal agencies all use a mishmash of tools. Mashups would be the best approach to accomplish this. The big piece missing is a centralized Framework (think the Federal version of Google Desktop) where all these widgets can live and be configuration…[Read more]

I would really like to see the agreements. The biggest issue I see is what oppourtunities are they going to give the government to remove/ shut down accounts that claim to represent an agency. I work for HUD and already there are hundreds of scammers claiming to represent HUD for FHA/ recovery act on Youtube, Twitter, Facebook. This needs to be a…[Read more]

Here is a UK based report that says it makes you more productive. There is a not a lot of research in this area but also consider that fact that this was done in the UK. Based on 2+ years working in the UK I can say that thier work habits are more social than the US perspective. I also believe that the generational aspects would also greatly…[Read more]

One of the bigger challenges with Gov 2.0 is that the business needs to drive the need. It is not a “If you build it” they will come mentality. This approach leads to the Wild Wild West issues that drive security and public affairs crazy. The best approach that I have found is to find a business problem and solve it with Web 2.0 technologies that…[Read more]