TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
01/27/12 12:45 pm ET
The social media town hall has become a staple of the Obama Administration with events conducted via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube in the past three years and a Google Plus hangout scheduled for Monday. Agency heads have followed suit, often taking Twitter questions...>>
01/26/12 01:23 pm ET
Federal agencies know they want Twitter followers but figuring out when and who to follow back is a thornier issue, based on questions during a webinar titled "Engaging Audiences with Twitter," sponsored by the General Services Administration's Web Manager University. "Some folks in the...>>
01/25/12 04:02 pm ET
This article has been updated to include comment from Google and GSA Google's controversial new privacy policies will not apply to users of the Google Apps for Government enterprise email system, such as the General Services Administration, a Google official said Wednesday. The statement...>>
01/24/12 10:41 am ET
This article has been updated with new information from GSA The General Services Administration has begun the process of moving its public Web presence to a unified cloud, according to a press release from CGI Federal, which won the $21 million five-year contract for...>>
01/23/12 11:45 am ET
The White House plans to follow up the president's Tuesday State of the Union address with a "State of the Union interview" with the president conducted on Google Plus next Monday. The White House just signed on to the search giant's new social networking...>>
01/18/12 03:55 pm ET
The State and Defense departments plan to work with European Union officials to develop an "international code of conduct" to govern activities in outer space, the American Forces Press Service reported Wednesday. The conduct code was prompted by the recent crash of a failed...>>
01/16/12 12:46 pm ET
Former federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra is the new executive vice president of emerging markets at Salesforce.com, the cloud provider and government contractor announced Monday. Kundra, who was the nation's first official CIO, left government in August to take a fellowship at Harvard...>>
01/11/12 12:59 pm ET
Verizon is having a good week, as far as federal contracting goes. As my colleague Bob Brewin pointed out in What's Brewin' yesterday, Verizon stands to benefit significantly from the Pentagon's focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Now today the U.S. Postal Service is giving...>>
01/10/12 06:09 pm ET
Some of the greatest interest in the slate of new top-level Internet domain names set to be opened up Thursday has come from governments, the chief executive of the non-profit body that will oversee those new domains said. In some cases national governments are...>>
01/09/12 02:11 pm ET
The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang has put together probably the best presentation to date of the ideological conflict between government-built mobile applications and industry-built apps that rely on government data. According to the Weather Gang's report, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials put...>>
01/06/12 03:50 pm ET
As part of its 21st Century Statecraft month, the State Department is accepting Twitter questions during January in 10 languages under the hash tag #AskState. Department Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland is answering a selection of those questions after her daily press briefing each Friday. In...>>
01/05/12 04:50 pm ET
This post has been updated The blurring line between digital protest and old-fashioned sign waving was on clear display Thursday afternoon as a group of Iranians protesting outside the State Department recorded, posted and Tweeted a video assailing the U.S. government's stance on the...>>
01/04/12 05:02 pm ET
This post has been updated The Office of Management and Budget's CIO.gov website went offline sometime before 3 p.m. on Wednesday and was still out Thursday afternoon. A spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, which oversees the site, said CIO.gov was "experiencing technical problems...>>
01/03/12 05:02 pm ET
In the "can't believe we missed it" department, the NORAD Tracks Santa app has evidently been removed from the iTunes app store until Santa begins his journey again next year. According to its description on an index page for government-built mobile applications, the North...>>
01/03/12 11:42 am ET
After a taciturn first few months as federal chief information officer, Steven VanRoekel appears to be warming to the public stage with two speeches scheduled in just three days next week. The CIO is slated to speak Wednesday at a government technology panel connected...>>
