Move over Facebook and Twitter, there\'s a new social media competitor making its way through the federal government.
The Transportation Department is hoping a new idea drives employees down the Information Superhighway toward better collaboration.
Coleman says group hugs are important. Essentially, you\'ve got to get everybody in that room so that they\'re part of it. That is collaboration. We learn more from Casey Coleman, CIO at GSA
The Tox21 collaboration merges federal agency resources (research, funding and testing tools) to develop ways to more effectively predict how chemicals will affect human health and the environment. We get details from Robert Kavlock of the EPA.
A ton of work to do with limited resources -- it\'s a common challenge facing many government agencies, including the Navy.
The GOP is leaning on the Federal Communications Commission to permit the use of Skype for calls on congressional computers, according to Politico.
Some of the high-tech collaboration tools that have worked for the military could soon be at the fingertips of all government workers.
Agency issues RFP for e-mail through software-as-a-service. GSA asks for 39 mandatory services with the hope of reducing the cost and modernizing its systems. The new system could support as many as 30,000 users.
Army Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the new Defense Department\'s Cyber Command, says the military needs to bolster its ability to see and understand what\'s happening across its many computer networks in real-time.
June 10th, 2010 With Collaboration being a critical enabler of 21st century \"Work\", panelists will examine how do you define, manage, and more importantly, increase collaboration? Their focus on this second session will be the Confidence Dimension of collaboration. Increasing collaboration and, subsequently, decision making, involves the level of trust you have in something -- in the information you have, the people with whom you are making decisions.
An online knowledge management system has led to better collaboration at the Federal Aviation Administration, according to a government official.
Agency tries a new approach to solve problems by bringing together all stakeholders. GSA Administrator Martha Johnson says five parts of the program will be done by July 4.
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra explains that data.gov started out with only 47 data sets. Over the past year, the site has expanded immensely and has fostered the development of thousands of applications, and led to the creation of hundreds of worldwide communities.
What is gov 2.0, what does it mean, and is it still a relevant term? Those were the questions that were being bandied about at a dinner last week of gov 2.0 luminaries in preparation…
Government as a platform — in the Gulf Coast oil spill. NASA photo We have covered a lot of the cases of people coming together to help in crisis situations — many of them around…