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Granicus Helps Grow Citizen Participation with New Features
It’s not often the words transparency and citizen engagement are used in the same sentence, but they are essential elements if you really want to innovate and evolve your community into taking meaningful action. Which is why the folks at Granicus announced new features aimed at empowering its Citizen Participation
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Accelerating Government at the Speed of Mobile, How Limelight Helped Smithsonian
For the past two weeks we’ve taken a closer look at the different ways life inside the Federal government is changing, thanks to more investments in social collaboration and usability. This week, we examine the next frontier of the Federal web -- mobility. The Rise of Mobile When
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Social Collaboration and the Federal Government
Last week we discussed the ways government agencies can improve usability of the Federal Web. This week in our series, we take a look at how social collaboration has become an integral component within the federal government. The results may surprise you.
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User Analytics and the Federal Web: A Mandate to Improve the Customer Experience
Today we start a three part series that focuses on usability, social collaboration and mobility needs of the Federal government. For the next three weeks, we’ll examine the trends and challenges affecting how agencies engage with the public and with each other. Over the past three years, there’s been
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What's Working in Social Business: The White House's Digital Government Strategy
In 2012, the federal government is getting into the social business game. On May 23, the White House issued a government-wide plan for providing better digital services to citizens, “Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People." In an accompanying memorandum, President Obama
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Microsoft Developing Secure Office 365 Product for Government
During all the hoopla around the Office 365 release, Microsoft promised that everyone would be able to do everything with it, including the government. Then everything went quiet.
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Advice for Complying With Federal Mandate for Electronic Records Management
Work for the government? If so, you have received a direct order from our commander-in-chief to get your records in order. Two weeks ago, President Obama gave federal agencies four months to come up with a plan to reform records management by moving to electronic records management systems.
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5 Business Reasons That Federal Government, Private Enterprise Heading to the Cloud
Think Big Data, and many of us think Big Government. In a recent white paper called Governing the Cloud, Granicus CTO Javier Muniz and CEO Tom Spengler offer five reasons why the cloud is going to make government and large enterprise governance easier.
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Will a Federal Contractor Entice Uncle Sam to Embrace the Cloud and Hadoop in a Single Bound?
Have you heard the one about the contractor that tried to get the cautious government agency to sign their name on the dotted line for two new technologies -- cloud and Hadoop -- all at once? No, I’m serious and GCE Federal is too.
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The Federal Reserve to Implement Social Media Monitoring, Analyze Public Sentiment
How do you feel about the Federal Reserve? I mean, how do you really feel? Apparently, the Federal Reserve wants to find out, according to a recent Request for Proposal. Definition of Terms First, what is it we're talking about here? The Federal Reserve Bank of New York (referred to
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'Open Government' Initiatives Give Developers Access to Government Data
They're from the government and they're here to help you. No, really. Some of the biggest collectors of data are the various governments, whether on a national, state and regional or local level. Increasingly, governments are making this data available to developers, who are using it to produce applications.
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Amazon Announces US Government-Specific Cloud Service: AWS GovCloud
In a move that Amazon hopes will give it a bigger piece of the US$ 78.5 that the federal government spends on IT, the company has announced the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, a cloud service specifically for the US federal government.
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US Department of Defense (DOD) Plans Social Intelligence Activity
If social media monitoring is good enough for prospective employers, it’s good enough for the United States Government. Where as employers may track the behaviors of future employees online, tracking social media for indications that their applicant may be a risk, the Department of Defense has begun a new
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WEM: Dynamic Partnerships Will Be a Necessity to Local Authorities' Web Channel Strategy
As the public sector begins to come to grips with the transformation of services to online delivery, it is more important than ever that councils and local authority departments select the right supplier to support their Web Channel Strategy. It is well recognized that there is a plethora of web content management (WCM)
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