Deltek Analyst Derek Johnson reports. Earlier this year, I wrote about the massive market opportunity for vendors leveraging cloud computing technologies. The potential for cost savings, scalability and storage alone is such that within 5-10 years, the cloud is likely to be a standard feature of most government IT infrastructures. In addition, the 2008 recessionRead… Read more »
I’ve often commented that tools don’t make the process. I think this issue has only been further compounded as the many options for tools have increased and continue to do so. To this end I feel like we’ve lost track of the mission: accomplishing the mission and supporting all of our customers. (Read=Boss, co-worker, actualRead… Read more »
If not, they should be! Almost everyday I see a different GovLoop member stressing the importance of online engagement in government as a tool for better customer service. As governments seek to serve citizens with more information online, are they contributing to our information overdose…or providing a quick hit that helps us more immediately? TakeRead… Read more »
Photo credit www.howstuffworks.com Virtual reality (VR) is a term that applies to computer-simulated environments that can simulate physical presence in places in the real world, as well as in imaginary worlds. This can vary from flight and other vehicle simulators, to video games, to immersion programs for training of military tactics, to medical and therapeuticRead… Read more »
Last night, while flying home from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference – Santa Clara, I thought about all of the sessions I attended, the people I spoke with, the demos I watched, and I kept thinking back to something that Dawn Lacallade said in her presentation on Wednesday afternoon: “If you want your Enterprise 2.0 effortsRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Aila Altman reports. The Mississippi Comprehensive Health Risk Pool Association – the entity created to implement the state’s health insurance exchange (HIX) – just released a request for proposals (RFP) for the first phase of the HIX portal. The selected vendor’s top priority will be to create the initial operational exchange portal forRead… Read more »
A few years ago, I answered the phone. I’ve since learned my lesson and silenced the landline. When someone leaves a message there now, the tiny blue light flickers forlornly until I log on to the interwebs to listen and laugh at the voice mail. For those particularly entertaining, I forward to my wife’s emailRead… Read more »
Its Friday! The holidays are approaching and we have gotten our 50,000th member: Melanie Schoeppe an MPP student at the Goldman School for Public Policy at UC Berkeley. GO BEARS! To honor the event, Melanie is our Top Member this week. To read more from Mr. GovLoop, Steve Ressler, about this momentous occasion check outRead… Read more »
Has anyone else noticed a lack of curiosity among office members? I have a difficult time getting people to try new applications, or try new capabilities in existing programs. Implementing SharePoint is difficult because people just don’t want to try anything new. Just do my job the same way I have always done it, neverRead… Read more »