National Archives and Records Administration
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Federal agencies\' use of blogs, social networking and other web-based technology can help create a more transparent government. But how have agencies embraced Web 2.0 tools? A study by NARA assesses agencies\' use of social media.
September 22, 2010 -
The Federal Drive has learned the Constitution of the United States might smell a lot like beef jerky. Kitty Nicholson, supervisory conservator with the National Archives, explains why.
September 17, 2010 -
NARA says the Electronic Records Archive is at risk if they build it and agencies don\'t use it. We get details from NARA\'s Meg Phillips and Charles Piercy.
September 13, 2010 -
The annual rankings of the best (and worst) places to work in the federal government are out. We get details from Max Stier with the Partnership for Public Service
September 01, 2010 -
The Partnership for Public Service along with the Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation at American University released its annual rankings of the best places to work in the federal government.
August 31, 2010 -
The Office of Management and Budget is throwing a lifeline, of sorts, to 15 agencies who have IT projects that are on its high-risk list. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra said the 26 projects on his new high priority list are mission critical. He said some extra attention now could reap dividends down the road when those projects finally realize their long-awaited potential.
August 24, 2010 -
Changes in technology, culture and conditions necessitate not only an update, but growth for the three-year old office.
August 12, 2010 -
The Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment says the three-year-old document needs to be updated and expanded. This effort is one of five priorities Kshmendra Paul shares in his exclusive interview with Federal News Radio, a month into his new role.
August 11, 2010 -
The newly-created National Declassification Center has processed and published 2% of the documents it is tasked with releasing. The center released a status report detailing its progress and the steps it plans to take in the future.
July 27, 2010 -
For years, a huge backlog of government agency documents in need of declassification has piled up at the National Archives and Records Administration. Now, however, a woman whose name is familiar in the federal declassification community is on board at NARA, taking the first steps toward whittling away at that backlog of 410 million pages of documents by a seemingly impossible deadline set in the law.
July 23, 2010 -
Just in time for its 75th anniversary in a little more than 10 days, the Federal Register is set to unveil an entirely new look -- online. And in keeping with the Obama Administration\'s emphasis on the Open Government Initiative, and using the tools of social collaboration, the new FederalRegister.gov is expected to be the result of wider citizen participation.
July 16, 2010 -
All this week, in our special week-long series, \"Cool Jobs in Government, \" Federal News Radio uncovers and highlights some of the most interesting and unorthodox ways feds spend their days. This afternoon, we meet Kitty Nicholson of the National Archives and Records Administration.
July 12, 2010 -
Current federal regulations are fairly explicit on the kinds of federal agency records that must be kept by law. But what happens when the law hasn\'t kept up with changes in communications in the Internet age? A government attorney who has helped almost every federal agency comply with records management regulations addresses a recent National Archives conference.
May 17, 2010 -
The Obama Administration believes that one of the major planks of an open and transparent government is the ready access to public information by citizens. One of the top federal officials involved in managing the federal government\'s rules and regulations says those who maintain the government\'s paper and electronic records are the \"backbone of a transparent and open government.\"
May 13, 2010 -