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Transition Watch: Obama supporters ponder online future
The Obama transition team is thinking about how to keep the more than 2 million registered users of the MyBarackObama.com Web site engaged
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Transition Watch: Cybersecurity will be high on Obama's to-do list
At the top of that list will be tough cybersecurity tasks left behind by the Bush administration.
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Transition Watch: Hundreds of technology jobs up for grabs
The Obama administration will need to fill more than 300 presidentially appointed technology positions, with 21 of them being chief information officer posts.
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Letter: Obama administration might allow some outsourcing
A reader writes that the incoming Obama administration might allow some outsourcing of government work if it would be cost effective.
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Transition Watch: Obama will cut outsourcing
President Obama says he will reduce the number of contracts that outsource government work to private firms.
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Transition Watch: Obama's BlackBerry may be disconnected
President-elect Barack Obama, a devoted BlackBerry user, might have to revert to 20th-century communications methods when he moves into the Oval Office.
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Letter: Obama's Change.gov site a quick read
A reader addresses the speculation surrounding who President-elect Barack Obama should choose as chief technology officer and the shortcomings of the Change.gov site.
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Letter: CTO office will become a large bureaurcracy
A reader writes to say that he thinks the staff for the chief technology officer position proposed under President-elect Barack Obama will start small, but will increase without adding value.
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Letter: Change.gov and YouTube not compliant with disability regulations
A reader writes that President-elect Barack Obama's transition site, Change.gov, and posting addresses to YouTube do not meet regulations for people with disabilities.
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Transition Watch: Obama to post weekly message on YouTube
The Obama White House will also conduct online question-and-answer sessions and video interviews, the Washington Post reports
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Buzz of the Week: Obama, the tech president
President-elect Barack Obama is preparing for a much-hyped technologically advanced administration by picking a chief technology officer for the government.
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Transition Watch: CSC VP to review GSA for transition team
Team will prepare incoming administration to address the agency's issues.
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Transition Watch: Talk heats up about CTO job description
As well as speculation over who would take the job as the government’s chief technology officer under President-elect Obama, there’s almost as much talk about what the CTO would do once in office.
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Transition Watch: Obama names first agency review teams
The people who will lead President-elect Obama’s review teams for the Departments of Treasury, State and Defense, according to the Wall Street Journal
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Letter: CIO better solution than CTO
A reader agrees with the founder of Monash Research that President-elect Barack Obama's should appoint a "true CIO" to handle issues such as procurement.
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Transition Watch: Ranking the federal CTO candidates
The competition for the job as the government’s chief technology officer in the Obama administration is heating up.
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