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When projects go wrong – now what?

In a House Oversight Committee Hearing on the Affordable Care Act website, Chairman Darrell Issa pressed Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, on just how many simultaneous users could have been handled by the website on the day of its launch. The hearing was just theRead… Read more »

Salesforce and Security: Trust them, it’s in their best interest to care

Salesforce and Security Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service are being embraced broadly in both the public and private sector. In this video I focus primarily on Software as a Service but I’ll cover each a bit here. Infrastructure as a Service leads to some efficiencies from aRead… Read more »

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GTRA SecureGOV Technology Council Meeting – December 8 – 10 – Lansdowne, Leesburg, VA

Please join us! GTRA SecureGOV Technology Council Meeting December 8 – 10, 2013 Lansdowne 44050 Woodridge Parkway, Leesburg, Virginia 20176 http://govtechcouncil.org/index.php/council-meeting/december-2013 Security in a New Federal Landscape: Priorities, Technologies & Innovation Securing our nation’s IT assets and systems has been complicated by a lack of resources, less ownership of systems & infrastructure due to theRead… Read more »

A Technology Plan for a new Mayor

The City of Seattle just elected a new Mayor, Ed Murray. He’s not a technology guru, but nevertheless could rapidly harness tech to significantly improve municipal government in Seattle. This same sort of technology plan is really applicable to many cities and most governments. Here it is: 1. Appoint a Chief Innovation Officer. 2. JoinRead… Read more »

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Government IT Forum to Overview Policy, Tech Trends

1105 Media’s public sector group will hold a government information technology forum from Dec. 2 to 3 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The event will feature five education sessions on big data, cloud, cyber, mobile and records and information management, 1105 Media said Tuesday. “We are pleased to offer thisRead… Read more »

HR Tech Conference 2013: Reflections and Images

Summary: As evidenced by the vendors and service providers who participated in the 2013 HR Tech Conference Expo Hall in Las Vegas earlier this month, the HR industry continues to make significant progress developing and leveraging social and digital technologies. This post shares my impressions from the event and includes a slide deck that illustratesRead… Read more »

How to make performance management work

Back in 2010, Congress passed the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). The goal was simple, strengthen performance management in agencies. That sounds simple, but in the government culture it is hard to focus on outcomes over results. Grant Thorton and the Partnership for Public Service teamed up to the look at the effects ofRead… Read more »

Google’s Innovation for the Nation Virtual Summit

Known as the country’s record keeper (and my favorite place to bring D.C. visitors) the U.S. National Archives Records Administration (NARA) protects and provides public access to more than 10 billion pages of textual records, maps, photographs, videos and more than 133 terabytes of electronic records. Needless to say, that is a lot of informationRead… Read more »

Celebrating Veterans Day: 3 foundations making a difference

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. ~ Joseph Campbell In honor of Veterans Day we here on the DorobekINSIDER wanted to take a moment and highlight three organizations that are really going above and beyond to help our wounded warriors. The Warrior Foundation serves thoseRead… Read more »

What did the shutdown mean for your TSP – Plus Your Weekend Reads!

The 16 day government shutdown had many federal employees wondering what was happening in the Thrift Savings Plan. Would their accounts be affected? Could and should they take out hardship withdrawals to get through the month? Kim Weaver is the Director of External Affairs at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. The Board runs theRead… Read more »