People
Spacebook brings secure social networking to NASA
The application is available to all NASA employees via the agency's intranet.
People
Soundoff: Obama foes pour the hate on FCW
Federal Computer Week, it would seem, is the tool of a fascist government, if not an agency of the government itself.
People
Two examples of why online forums break down
Two readers inadvertently prove how difficult it is to keep online dialogues from running off the rails.
People
Success with Web 2.0 requires risk
At the Government Leadership Summit, government leaders and social-media experts shared their take on the path to Web 2.0 enlightenment.
People
Open Government Dialogue's greatest hits
Here is a selection of the top-rated ideas proposed through the Open Government Dialogue for making government operations and information more transparent.
People
Conversation turns ugly at the Open Government Dialogue
Some participants are up in arms after some anti-Obama posts disappeared from the Web site.
People
DHS to create online dialogue for security review
The online dialogue will enable DHS to tap into security and policy experts in government, academia and industry, the department says.
Digital Government
FCW Insider: Sizing up the cyber coordinator
GCN Editor in Chief Wyatt Kash suggests keeping expectations in check when talking about a cybersecurity coordinator (and please stop using the word “czar”).
People
Open Government Dialogue: The E.T. connection
The Obama administration has received more than 1,400 ideas for how to make government more transparent, with some suggestions more serious than others.
People
FCW’s Twitter contest: Let the competition begin
The challenge is to rewrite your job description as a “tweet” -- that is, with no more than 140 characters, with extra points given for humor.
People
Transparency begins at home, fed says
One fed suggests that the Obama administration should ensure that government operations are more transparent to government employees.
People
FCW Insider: Build-it-yourself open government
How should the Obama administration craft its strategy for a transparent government? With a transparent process, of course.
People
FCW Contest: Rewrite your job description as a Tweet
Many people in the federal IT community have job titles that exceed the 140 character-limit of Twitter and job descriptions that are incomprehensible to the outside world. Which makes this contest twice the fun.
Cybersecurity
Is social media in government a non-starter?
Do you believe that agencies will — or should — allow employees to start using Facebook, Twitter and other popular tools as part of their jobs?
People
5 keys to making social media work in government
The path to success in social networking often takes unexpected routes, experts say.
People
5 ways social media will change how feds work
From the Government Leadership Summit: Government and industry experts say social networking technology soon will reshape the daily operations of agencies and individual employees.
People
FCW Insider: Lessons from the Obama campaign
Barry Libert, author of “Barack, Inc.” says government and businesses can learn a good lesson from candidate Barack Obama -- or a hard lesson from candidate Hillary Clinton.
Cybersecurity
FCW Insider: Is IT security a drag on the mission?
Many readers were flabbergasted to hear that Energy Secretary Steven Chu suggested that his department is too fixated on security concerns.
People
FCW Insider: Are feds more cost-effective than contractors?
A recent remark by Obama triggered a lengthy debate among readers about the relative value of in-house and contract staffers.
Acquisition
FCW Insider: The problem with publishing contractor performance data
Michael Lent, editor of Government Services Insider, questions the value of publishing contractor performance data publically available, given its dubious quality.
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