A new phased retirement option has been approved by Congress and signed into law by President Obama. The Federal Employee Phased Retirement Act represents a significant change in how federal employees and agencies will plan for retirement. Employees can now take phased retirement for a few years at the end of a career. Steve LoseyRead… Read more »
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Oklahoma’s First CIO Speaks to Procurement and its Effect on Innovation
With even greater attention focused on government expenditures, the need to acquire services for the lowest cost is increasingly in the spotlight. Innovation in information technology, however, may be suffering as a result of the procurement process. In this interview, Alex Pettit, the current Chief Information Officer for the state of Oklahoma, discusses with ChrisRead… Read more »
A New Procurement Model And Why You Need Enterprise Architecture
A New Procurement Model And Why You Need Enterprise Architecture by cdorobek On Today’s Edition of the DorobekINSIDER We often hear about government and industry partnering. There are many challenges. And many challenges to changing government procurement to make it better. The CIO for the state of Oklahoma is trying, and he will tell youRead… Read more »
States See New Model For Project Planning, Purchasing
How do you make sure that every project in your state or organization is working towards an overall mission in the most efficient and cost effective way? Alex Pettit, CIO of the State of Oklahoma, talks with Chris Dorobek of the DorobekINSIDER about the need for enterprise architecture when strategically planning the high level goalsRead… Read more »
Latest TwitChimp Features: Multiple lists per account
This note provides an update on our new Twitter list management system. TwitChimp is a Twitter list curation tool. It provides users with better ways of creating, managing, synchronizing and sharing Twitter lists. It also provides those seeking advice on who to follow to find expert opinions and also provides gist tools to enable usersRead… Read more »
Social Crowdfunding – Monetizing the Margins
Crowdfunding has become a very popular topic here in Canada, and for good reason, it’s really the key to unlocking their future, in a pretty seismic way. By this I mean the nation has a notorious ‘Innovation Gap’ and lament a lack of Venture Capital as the reason, but really what is missing is aRead… Read more »
CTOvision Mobile Application for iPhone and iPad
The CTOvision Mobile Application is now available in the Apple iTunes application store. The application focuses on content we create for technologists, but it also contains a curated list of coming events we believe are of high interest plus curated lists of the videos we want to bring to your attention on topics like BigRead… Read more »
Weekly Round-up: July 13, 2012
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Psst! NIST on PIV. FedScoop reports that “The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the second draft version of its updated security standard for identity credentials in personal identity verification cards, also known as PIV cards. The document. . . is now open for public comment” Kickstarter, for roads? Rob GoodspeedRead… Read more »
5 Great Apps for Microsoft Phone 7
Today, I was reading an article over on the Microsoft Government Blog about apps built exclusively for Microsoft Phone 7. The blog was written by Parul Bhandari, Government Industry Solutions Lead, Worldwide Public Sector. I thought it was an interesting look at some of the apps built for Microsoft mobile devices, and also a lookRead… Read more »
Stopping Anthrax And How To Influence With Your Stories
The DorobekINSIDER – July 12, 2012 by cdorobek On Today’s Edition of the DorobekINSIDER Anthrax and plagues — scarry stuff. We remember the anthrax letters in 2001. We are going to talk to a public servant to works to create vaccines. His work has earned him a spot as a finalist for the Service toRead… Read more »