Older Feds Aren't Playing to Their Strengths
Is It Too Hard to Fire Misbehaving Feds?
Americans Still Like the Postal Service
A Forced 4-Day Weekend for Many Feds
No More Tax-Cheating Feds, Senators Say
Video: The Daily Show on Apple's Taxes
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Joseph Marks
Staff Correspondent
Joseph Marks covers government technology issues, social media, Gov 2.0 and global Internet freedom for Nextgov. He previously reported on federal litigation and legal policy for Law360 and on local, state and regional issues for two Midwestern newspapers. He also interned for Congressional Quarterly’s Homeland Security section and the Associated Press’s Jerusalem Bureau. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s in international affairs from Georgetown.
From Nextgov: British government's massive website reduction took years of work
June 30, 2011 The British government's Web presence was a mess in 2006, with more than 2,000 sites -- no one knew precisely how many -- spawned with scant central oversight and little rhyme or reason about how they were organized, a top official told Nextgov. Read the full story on Nextgov.
Voters Used Social Media in 2010 Midterm
June 29, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
More than one fifth of all American internet users over the age of 18 used social media sites to get involved in the 2010 midterm elections or to investigate a candidate, a study released Monday said. Of the roughly 75 percent of adult Americans who go online, 8 percent posted ...
Crowd Pleasers v. Policy Heft
June 28, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
It's "frustrating" that serious policy videos the Obama administration pushes on the White House website and blog garner nowhere near as much public attention as crowd-pleasing videos ready-made for Youtube, White House New Media Director Macon Phillips told a think tank audience Tuesday. A recent White House video of a ...
GSA to Launch Gov App Challenges Discussion
June 28, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
The General Services Administration's Office of Citizen Services on Wednesday will begin publishing a list of 10 challenges facing federal agencies developing a mobile presence, the division's mobile director said Tuesday. The office will publish one challenge online each day, along with an open forum for agencies to discuss the ...
White House considers new social media avenues
June 28, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
White House communications staffers are investigating using social media sites beyond Facebook and Twitter to broaden the Obama administration's public engagement and, perhaps, to communicate in different ways, a White House aide said Tuesday. That investigation is driven partly by a belief that social media changes so rapidly the government ...
Stealth Internet helps get images, messages out of troubled areas, but proves less useful for protests
June 28, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
Advanced technology that keeps dissidents online during state-sponsored Internet blackouts can help the rest of the world stay informed about and engaged in a faraway struggle against an autocratic regime, but it may be less useful at keeping protest movements on track, analysts told Nextgov. Technology such as the "Internet ...
U.S. Leads in Google User Data Requests
June 27, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
The U.S. government made more than 4,600 requests to Google to hand over user data in the second half of 2010, more than twice as many requests as the next highest-requesting nation, according to a transparency report from the search giant. The UK, France, India and Brazil were the only ...
HHS CIO to Leave Post
June 27, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
Health and Human Services Chief Information Officer Michael Carleton will leave his post at the end of July, according to a report by FedScoop. An HHS spokesman could not immediately confirm Carleton's departure Monday afternoon. Carleton is the third federal IT leader to announce he's leaving his post this summer. ...
Draft of Cloud Computing Act Sneaks Online
June 24, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
A draft version of the not-yet-introduced 2011 Cloud Computing Act has found its way onto a public file sharing site. The draft's only mention of the government's own data in the cloud is an effective endorsement of the "cloud first" initiative that Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra outlined in ...
Feds Gone Wild
June 24, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
Federal bureaucrats and plain-old passersby got out a little rage Thursday, bashing away at old desktop computers and printers with baseball bats. The event -- a self-conscious reference to the cult classic Office Space -- was hosted by MeriTalk, a government IT industry group, and was meant to symbolize "breaking ...
