What better way to kickoff the new “Project of the Week” series than to highlight the coolest website in government, GovLoop! Last year on Memorial Day when you were most likely ‘chilaxin’ poolside waiting for the burgers and dogs to be ready, Steve Ressler launched GovLoop. Apparently, that same day, there were five other goviesRead… Read more »
Search Results for: Security
Sometimes it’s not the Technology — Focusing the Human Side
Yesterday’s Washington Post had an article headlined “Web-Savvy Obama Team Hits Unexpected Bumps — Issues of Technology, Security and Privacy Slow the New Administration’s Effort to Foster Instant Communication” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/01/AR2009030101745_pf.html). While highlighting all of the information technology innovations the new “web-savvy Obama Team” has begun to employ, such as a Presidential blog and YouTube channel,Read… Read more »
Searching for Federal Government Policies on Employee Use of Social Networking
I’m researching (and attempting to develop) policies on the use of social networking sites particularly an information security controls for the download of applications and, in general, how social networking sites have the potential to disclose agency information without proper approvals.
Andrew Krzmarzick! – Featured Govloop Member
Andrew Krzmarzick is a Senior Project Manager at the Graduate School, USDA. I met him on govloop and I asked him to be our featured member because I see him leading the effort to make government better using social media tools. Quietly, (if that is possible with twitter and blogging,) I see Andrew one classRead… Read more »
Federal Eye: The Budget: First Glance
The Eye and his colleagues will spend most of today reviewing President Obama’s first federal budget proposals. Already we know that it will include an additional $250 billion that could be used to bail out struggling banks, and that the total spending plan will bring the 2009 budget deficit to a soaring $1.75 trillion. BelowRead… Read more »
In which I make a case for (a little bit of) Web 1.0 in the Government 2.0 world
I’ve been thinking about Dennis McDonald‘s thoughts about K-TOC. He wrote: “I guess I see an advantage to being able to easily differentiate between a web site that serves as an official portal, and a web service that facilitates a mix of formal and informal communication. The question is, how realistic is it to combineRead… Read more »
A new Buzzword?!
AND Perhaps and invite to an Event! http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/02/23/drapeau-rise-of-goverati.aspx Drapeau: The rise of the goverati Lately, there has been a lot of buzz about social media technologies in Washington. Web 2.0 technologies such as WordPress, Twitter and Qik are taking communications and personal interactions into new realms. But one local trend in the field of socialRead… Read more »
Leadership in the global world
Following is the text of a speech I gave at the closing of the 22d Annual Black Management Association Conference at Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, on Feb. 21, 2009. LEADERSHIP IN THE GLOBAL WORLD Today, as never before, we need enlightened, effective leadership. We need leadership that is focused on recognizingRead… Read more »
The Center’s Application Deadline – March 2, 2009
March 2nd is the deadline to submit research proposals to the IBM Center for The Business of Government. Coinciding with the inauguration of a new President, the financial crisis, stimulus bill and other new developments, we are particularly eager to receive proposals focusing on five cross-cutting management issues: Contracting and acquisition E-Government, Web 2.0 andRead… Read more »
Federal Connections – The Fog of Government
The New York Times magazine section this Sunday features an essay by Noah Feldman, “In Defense of Secrecy” (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15wwln_lede-t.html?ref=magazine ). He makes the point that for all the emphasis on greater transparency in government, there is still a need, at times, for government secrecy: “The effective operation of even the most democratic government requires secrecyRead… Read more »