Author Archive
Heather Harreld
People
And forgive us our trespasses
Agencies monitor employee Internet use to stem unauthorized surfing
- By Heather Harreld
People
Training anytime, anywhere
Pennsylvania teachers can now log on for their mandatory continuing education courses
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
Other important standards
Standards should make cards more useful
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
Designing a universal smart card
Standards should make cards more useful
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
Taking wireless the last mile
States with large rural populations know that Internet access must play a role in just about any economic development campaign. But providing access to outlying areas is neither cheap nor easy.
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
How it works
The Real-Time Traffic Adaptive Control System (RT-TRACS) is made up of several modules.
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
Lights years ahead
New responsive traffic-signal system aims to ease Chicago congestion
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
Checking up on your ASP
Although a servicelevel agreement with an application service provider details system performance goals and support response times, how can an agency ensure that its service provider is delivering? The answer may be to invest in a monitoring service.
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
The defining moment
When a federal agency turns to an application service provider to outsource its email or enterprise resource planning applications, the ASP usually brings welcome relief from the burdensome operations and upkeep associated with those applications.
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
Quick tips for accessible Web sites
Images and animations: Use the 'alt' attribute to describe the function of each visual.
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
Enabling the disabled
W ith the emergence of the World Wide Web, a whole new world of information has opened up for people with disabilities, especially those with vision impairments who can now zip through thousands of text-laden pages with text readers.
- By Heather Harreld
Featured eBooks
Digital Government
Stretching your workforce
During the heavy budget cutting of the 1990s, training programs were often the first victims. But now, faced with a severe labor shortage ? half of all information technology workers in the federal government are expected to retire in the next five years ? agencies are fattening training budgets again as one way to expand the IT ranks. But as agencies add new training programs, Congress wants them to show a measurable return on investment.
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
On a roll
Officials at Computer Sciences Corp. credit two decisions for the companys blistering growth in the federal information technology arena: sharpening their focus on value-added services such as performance contracts and consolidating federal operations in 1998.
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
Light on its feet
Information technology companies are using the momentum of procurement reform to restructure, readjust and rethink the way they go after federal IT business, which has become more freewheeling and less hampered by bureaucratic red tape.
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
Breaking the dot-com mold
Only a few short months ago, anything ending with ".com" was sure to stir interest. So when EzGov dropped the .com from its name, it was an indication of just how fast the government market is evolving.
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
Hot, hot, hot
A looming federal workforce shortage and pressure from the White House and Congress to move government business online are creating the market that will give rise to the next hot federal contractors.
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
Making the grade
Webenabled tools help parents, teachers connect
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
Products improving education access
Some Webenabled communications tools for education include
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
Storage jobs put on the line
For federal agencies swamped with data but short on manpower, a storage device the size of a pizza box that is reliable, inexpensive to own and can be set up in minutes is a dream come true.
- By Heather Harreld
Digital Government
NAS buying tips
Here are factors to consider when evaluating networkattached storage:
- By Heather Harreld