CIA website goes social, mobile apps coming soon

The CIA.gov website has new links to YouTube and Flickr, and the agency promises mobile applications to access its Web content are coming soon.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

National Archives giving tips on history through FourSquare

Checking in at the Washington Monument? Get a tip from the National Archives while you are there.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

NYC gets its first Chief Digital Officer

Social media entrepreneur Rachel Sterne has been named to the new position to coordinate social media and digital media for the city's 83 agencies.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Many federal blogs wither from neglect

Our Dying Blog List highlights those in critical condition. Help us add to it.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

NARA photo contest attracts only 35 entries so far -- start clicking

Right now, your odds of winning are pretty good.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

World Bank holds apps contest; NIH uses texts, Facebook for weight loss

Judging for the World Bank's innovation competition will start Jan. 31, and the National Institutes of Health is conducting clinical trials using social media and mobile devices for weight loss.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

A Facebook scam that almost caught me

Columnist Steve Kelman comes close to falling for a Facebook scam.

  • By Steve Kelman

The year in cartoons: Security certifications, insourcing and light bulb procurements

FCW cartoonist John Klossner selects his favorite editorial cartoons from 2010.

  • By John Klossner

So much for open government, Navy shutters public blog

The Navy CIO blog has been stopped, and archived posts are no longer available on the site.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

VoteIQ: Social media for political junkies

Robbins-Gioia alumni have started VoteIQ, a social media site for political junkies.

  • By Michael Hardy

White House has a new wiki; NARA, SSA start social media projects

Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra said a new wiki for the ExpertNet project was created as a model for public participation.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

8 vital White House Twitter feeds

The White House has eight official Twitter accounts, ranging from 3,900 to 1.9 million followers.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

CDC publishes social media toolkit online

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention share the lessons they have learned by using Facebook, Twitter, podcasts, blogs and other social media.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Cisco's vision of the future

Cisco CEO John Chambers sees productivity growth ahead with collaboration and video leading the way, but will it be based in the United States?

  • By Sami Lais

Serco helps VA reintegrate, train vets for jobs

Serco Inc. will provide the Veterans Affairs Department with program management assistance under a competitively won task order valued at approximately $20 million.

  • By David Hubler

CGI to boost capabilities of GSA public info website

CGI Federal Inc. will provide dataset hosting and other IT services to the General Services Administration under a five-year blanket purchase agreement with a ceiling of up to $46 million.

  • By David Hubler

The Economist calls GovLoop a rejuvenator

None

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Government waking up to social media, survey finds

A new report finds the government adoption of social media lags behind the commercial sector, but new policies have launched a flurry of activity.

  • By Henry Kenyon

Dell wants to get out of the box and into services

Dell Federal wants to bring a new focus to the government market that doesn't rely on a product-first strategy. What three things are they doing?

  • By Nick Wakeman

DOD's social media chief signs out

Floyd Price is leaving his DOD post in charge of social media programs after a year on the job.

  • By Alice Lipowicz
Previous
Next