LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER! Free Seminar for Military and Government Attendees Defense Systems Seminar – Ft. Monmouth Sheraton Eatontown Wednesday, May 27th Engage with peers and expert faculty on the military’s Information Assurance strategies and its role in cyber warfare Discover emerging technologies impacting Information Assurance requirement Discuss current threats and trends in Cyber Security,Read… Read more »
The Obama admnistration is still putting all the pieces of the puzzle together for transparency and information technology. But the appointments of a federal CIO and CTO are not the end. There’s plenty of speculation there will be a cyber czar, too! Wow. What a change from previous administrations and how 21st century? For moreRead… Read more »
So many things happened today that my head is spinning. If your head is spinning, too, you might appreciate a handy-dandy link list. U.S. Government YouTube hub: gives you quick access to all agency channels. White House blog post re: Gov’t 2.0: Bev Godwin highlights social media projects all across government. Features a video withRead… Read more »
Tonight I attended an interesting panel sponsored by Social Media Club-DC about crisis communications. The panelists: Andy Carvin, NPR Dallas Lawrence, Levick Strategic Communications Jon Eick, New Media Strategies Gayle Weiswasser, TMG Strategies Part of my job and my team’s job is to lead crisis communications efforts for EPA. I mean for things like 9/11,Read… Read more »
President Obama’s 2010 Budget (pp. 157-158) has highlighted cloud computing as a key tool for improving innovation, efficiency and effectiveness in Federal IT. ” Cloud-computing is a convenient, on-demand model for network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released withRead… Read more »
About a month ago, the background and text on our NCSLCOMM Twitter site turned bright red! It hurts our eyes to look at the page! When we checked our settings, it still said the background was blue and the text was black (orgional colors). Strange! When we went to change it, we received a messageRead… Read more »
My keynote from GOVIS 2009 – User Centred Government: More than meets the eye. Public engagement. Public empowerment. View more presentations from Stephen Collins. The GOVIS tag line is “Connect. Share. Learn.” So my first question is where is the conference wifi network for all of us to connect? It’s a must have for everyRead… Read more »
By Kristin Bockius, State & Local Government Social Media Marketing Manager Bright Side of Government blog My attention was caught this afternoon when I saw the headline, “White House Strives to Reduce Noise in Social Media Initiatives.” It was a blog post written by Mitch Wagner at InformationWeek. Could it be true that the AdministrationRead… Read more »
A couple of weeks ago, I was offered a chance to meet Mr. Vivek Kundra at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in downtown Washington, DC. Needless to say, I was honored to be given the opportunity. Although I was clear on my own views of how the Federal government could use cloud computing, the ObamaRead… Read more »
I’m proud to announce two important coming events. The Information Resources Management (IRM) College and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks and Information Integration)/DOD CIO are co-hosting a symposia on cloud computing at the college’s campus on Fort Lesley J. McNair Washington DC waterfront), Wednesday, July 15, 2009. The event is openRead… Read more »