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Ed McKenna
Digital Government
HHS center shines in public education role
For the Department of Health and Human Services' National Women's Health Information Center, supplying the public with up-to-date health data is paramount.
- By Ed McKenna
Digital Government
One-stop shops
Government contact centers gear up to serve greater variety of customers' needs
- By Ed McKenna
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Military big on portals
Air Force planners used portal technology in the service's Theater Battle Management Core Systems to help craft and launch air offensives
- By Ed McKenna
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Gov portals get to work
No longer window dressing, portals become new home for critical agency business
- By Ed McKenna
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Many archiving challenges remain
When devising strategies to streamline e-mail archiving, agencies face formidable technology and cultural challenges
- By Ed McKenna
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Saving the message
Records managers try automated fixes to mend e-mail archival woes
- By Ed McKenna
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Tools help pinpoint the right words
Audio-mining technologies create indexes of audio files using words or speech sounds
- By Ed McKenna
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From lab to landing zone
About the Defense Department's Language and Speech Exploitation Resources (LASER) team
- By Ed McKenna
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Agencies outsource self-service
Some agencies are hiring application service providers to operate their self-service e-government applications
- By Ed McKenna
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Giving users a virtual hand
Self-service Web apps promise to cut e-gov support costs
- By Ed McKenna
Digital Government
Agencies close in on metadata benefits
A few agencies are forging ahead with major metadata initiatives, including the Bureau of Land Management and the Census Bureau
- By Ed McKenna
Digital Government
Know your data
Metadata provides the knowledge to improve information management
- By Ed McKenna
Digital Government
Metadata key to Air Force XML project
With a boost from metadata, the Air Force is Web-enabling its massive collection of technical manuals
- By Ed McKenna
Digital Government
Three ways to do it
When it comes to metadata management, there is no exclusive strategy or solution
- By Ed McKenna
Digital Government
Modular solutions play well
The operative word for enterprise resource planning vendors targeting the federal market is 'modular'
- By Ed McKenna
Digital Government
A recipe for success: ERP by the slice
Agencies take software suites one application at a time
- By Ed McKenna
Digital Government
Marine Corps keeps it simple
For the Marine Corps Community Services sought an ERP solution for human resources
- By Ed McKenna