NASA’s move to the cloud saves $1 million a year.
NASA’s move to the cloud saves $1 million a year. Read how: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/nasas-move-to-the-cloud-saves-1-million-a-year/79773
Yearly Archives: 2012
Sharing policies, patterns, recipes & code across government
This morning at the Drupal Downunder event I learnt about the New Zealand Features site which shares recipes for re-usable Drupal code and patterns across NZ government. To me this is representative of one of the significant opportunities I’ve seen for government in Australia emerging out of Gov 2.0 thinking and tools is the abilityRead… Read more »
Mark Twain’s User Adoption Insights – Part Three
This is the third in a five part series, originally published on the Tri Tuns blog. Start at the beginning here. TIMELESS INSIGHT As I mentioned in my last blog post, I recently I came across a page of Mark Twain quotes and in reading them I realized that the insights and teachings of aRead… Read more »
Review of “The Rise of Social Government” by the Fels Institute
The federal government’s use of social media—including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and other sites—draws no end of press coverage, and for good reason: in the past three years, federal agencies have been engaging citizens through Facebook (NASA has more fans than the population of Denver, CO) and Twitter (The State Department has more followers thanRead… Read more »
Recovering from a Social Media Mistake
Everyone has posted something they wish they hadn’t. Don’t worry so much about the past and get back up on the horse. That’s what will define you, not one post. On Friday, the NextGen Journal published an article titled “Why Every Social Media Manager Should be Under 25″ by Cathryn Sloane. This article predictably generatedRead… Read more »
Personal Mobile Devices in DoD by 2014 but not in NSA and More
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Bruce Bennett, program executive officer of communications systems within the Defense Information Systems Agency, predicted that Department of Defense personnel may be able to use personal mobile device for unclassified data in late 2013 or early 2014. More here. A White House science advisory panel hasRead… Read more »
The Department of Defense Cloud Computing Strategy
The Department of Defense needs to accomplish its critical global missions despite a decreasing budget and rising cybersecurity threat. To that end, the Chief Information Officer of the DoD, Teri Takai, released its Cloud Computing Strategy, which outlines its goals to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing throughout the department. In the strategy, the OfficeRead… Read more »
Fall 2012 IAP2 certificate training events
If you work in communications, public relations, public affairs, planning, public outreach and understanding, community development, advocacy, or lobbying, the IAP2 certificate training given by The League of Extraordinary Trainers will help you to increase your skills and to be of even greater value to your employer. New in 2012: Dues-paying NCDD members receive aRead… Read more »
NextGen will lead to more effective government
In 1992 when some of you NextGen attendees were small, a report came out on applying entrepreneurial principles to make government more effective. Authors David Osborne and Ted Gaebler described why performance measures are important: • What gets measured gets done. • If you can’t measure results, you can’t tell success from failure. • IfRead… Read more »
The GovLoop Leadership Guide Companion (1 of 3): Introducing and Implementing New Ideas
The Series Welcome to the first of three posts intended to help you get the most out of GovLoop’s new leadership guide: 10 Traits of a Great Government Leader. Each of these posts will cover a different theme and, taken together, will cover all ten traits in the leadership guide. Our intent is to provideRead… Read more »