Federal information technology issues are having a busy week. On Capitol Hill, the Senate Veterans Committee holds a confirmation hearing on Wednesday for Roger Baker to be an Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Information and Technology as well as the department’s CIO. It’s a great pick for the department that’s often been tangled inRead… Read more »
Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, IM: do these sound like foreign words? In the face of new social media and collaboration, getting in touch over the Internet has never been more complicated. With so many of these whiz-bang technologies out there, it can be especially frustrating to figure out which ones are worth learning about andRead… Read more »
In the last GovLoop poll I asked “When Will Gov 2.0 Take Off?” The answers were pretty interesting: 16.3% This summer 23.9% 6 months 21.7% 1 year 28.3% 2-3 years 9.8% never While we have some people on both sides (16.3% say this summer and 9.8% never), the majority bunch up in the middle withRead… Read more »
Our web team hit a bit of a wall this week with our Web 2.0 project. As happens with teams that are working on a lot of projects simultaneously, we needed to step back and evaluate what we had accomplished and reassess our goals. We had two additional projects with relatively short deadlines pushed ontoRead… Read more »
Some of you already know that VistA adoption has spawned several companies using the open source business model – i.e. take a free product and make money by offering installation, customization and support for the base product. One such player is MedSphere, offering VistA support services. There is another instance of a significant VistA adoptionRead… Read more »
12, March 2009 15:32 EDT — The Web Hacking Incidents Database (WHID) has reported that over 500,000 websites were hacked by a new form of SQL Injection in 2008. The hacking incidents resulted in 19% theft of sensitive data. Government, security, and law enforcement organizations represented the biggest sector suffering from these attacks (32 percent).Read… Read more »
Apologies for errors in advance. Here are a few tweets from the tweet stream (have not clicked on any of the links) @Nextgov RT White House launches official twitter feed: @whitehouse #gov20 #obama @levyj413 EPA has launched a new mapping app called My Environment. Check it out http://twurl.nl/pdoau8 #gov20 @ariherzog: Snapshot in Twitter Time: HereRead… Read more »
At the moment, we have 686 fans of EPA’s Pick 5 for the Environment page on Facebook. I thought it was interesting that women outnumber men 2:1. The age distribution seems reasonable to me, though. 686 Fans Age Female Male Overall All 67% 33% 13-17 1% 1% 2% 18-24 5% 5% 9% 25-34 24% 9%Read… Read more »
Last month I setup a wiki, using Wetpaint, to introduce my students to Web 2.0 tools. In thinking of a name, I came up with Collaboration Squared as I was asking them to “collaborate about collaborating.” It seems to me we could use some of the same, unless it’s happening somewhere on GovLoop and I’veRead… Read more »
Check out this Federal Computer Week article if you missed it! According to the article, some agencies other than NASA using Twitter include: NIH – health related dispatches US Geological Survey – earthquake & tsunmai warnings FDA – updates on food recalls You can find all of this and more on Steve Luncefords’s Twitter directoryRead… Read more »