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- Telework lags in public sector for dubious reasons
- Telework in the public sector is seriously lagging the private industry according to a report from a cybersecurity public policy advocacy group covered on Govexec.com. The article states that about 14 percent of federal employees worked away from their main offices in 2003, compared to 41.3 million American workers in...
- Tags: Telework
- Blog posts 2005-08-09
- Going beyond the status quo to improve online services
- FCW.com reports that the House is seeking new technology to better reach Spanish speakers. Specifically, they're researching commercial human-based and machine-based foreign-language interpreter systems that will, for the time being, provide only English-to-Spanish services. The move will save lawmakers from the trouble of hiring bilingual staff to update FirstGov en...
- Tags: Value at Risk, intangible value
- Blog posts 2005-08-05
- Keep e-gov. and IT strategies seperate but equal, says report
- Gartner draws a clear distinction between e-government and IT strategies, saying that the two serve different purposes, although they are rooted in the same political objectives. However, that doesn't mean they are islolated. In fact, the development, deployment, and governance of each should be closely aligned, says...
- Tags: strategy, IT Strategy, information technology, e-government
- Blog posts 2005-07-18
- Prepare for more scrutiny after SEC's SOX failure, says Gartner
- Earlier this week, CNet News.com reported that the Government Accountability Office GAO audit of the SEC found that the organization, ironically, did not have effective internal control over financial reporting, pointing to weaknesses in its information security and accountancy practices. The GAO also found that the SEC's financial statements for...
- Tags: SEC, Government Accountability Office
- Blog posts 2005-06-30
- Federal Enterprise Architecture: agencies and vendors brace for pain
- IT vendors shooting for a slice of the $70 billion federal IT budget this year will have to revise their sales strategy as early as July 1st, according to a market alert published by INPUT. Federal Enterprise Architecture FEA initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of government information systems...
- Tags: Federal Enterprise Architecture
- Blog posts 2005-06-17
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- OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good enough
- There is a reason that the OpenOffice.org 3.0 servers are struggling to keep up with demand. OO.org 3.0 really is a serious upgrade over version 2.4 and makes NeoOffice irrelevant for Mac OS X users (previously, OpenOffice only worked within X11; While NeoOffice did a great job porting OO.org...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., OO.org 3.0, OpenOffice, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Office, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- A quick note on Columbus Day
- It's Columbus Day here in the States, so quite a few of us are off. I'm going to consider it a holiday and take the day off from blogging. I do have an interview with Joe Hartley, Sun's VP of Global Education and Healthcare, today, so check back...
- Tags: Holiday, Sun Microsystems Inc., Thin Clients, Virtualization, Blogging, Cloud Computing, Vertical Industries, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Benefits, Hardware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Is OpenOffice good enough?
- Yes. OK, obviously there's more to this story than my tongue-in-cheek answer. This came up after one of our supercool, power user secretaries (who is an Office 2003/2007 wiz) ran a training session for the other secretaries in the district. The other secretaries are largely...
- Tags: Secretary, Training, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- "People with strong numerical and problem-solving skills seem to be appreciated by employers"
- Do ya think? That was a key point in a BBC News article on the overall high ranking of US and UK universities worldwide. While the usual suspects (Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, in that order) scored at the top of the "Times Higher Education QS list," an...
- Tags: University, U.K., Operational Accounting, Investment, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hidingPalin Yes - Obama NoIt amazes me the the Left's knee-jerk reaction to Sarah Palin, when you have Barry Obama with his association with unrepentant terrorist William Ayers and anti-American bigot Jeremiah Wright. And never mind the fact Obama...
- Tags: Obama, Sarah Palin, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Where are all the programmers?
- I was at a conference Wednesday that covered an awful lot of ground. There were some good sandwiches, too, and the cookies were first-rate. One thing that stuck out in my mind, though, aside from the deserts, was one companies inability to hire good programmers domestically. This...
- Tags: Recruiting, Programmer, Computer, Development Tools, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Turning US News college rankings into 7-dimensional analytic geometry
- No really, I'm not kidding. Two researchers from UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon thought that the methods employed by US News and World Report to rank the nation's top universities was just a bit too arbitrary. As Science News reports in a great article to share with high...
- Tags: Vector, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Teaching telecommuting
- I had to commute this morning. I left the commuting behind about 5 years ago and dread the drive from middle-of-nowhere Massachusetts to Boston. We have a lot more horses than traffic jams out my way, so I've definitely lost my tolerance for traffic. The local troopers...
- Tags: Boston, Tool, Telecommuting, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- I'm well aware what I pay for Google's services
- My post on Google earlier Tuesday was met with mixed reactions. A few folks agreed that, in fact, Google's suite of services is quite slick, long live GOOG, etc. Others, like fellow ZDNet blogger, Michael Krigsman, disagreed pretty strongly. In his response, Michael didn't leave much doubt...
- Tags: Google Inc., OpenOffice, Productivity, E-mail Providers, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Google is NOT your friend
- Google is NOT your friendthe old call the enemy of my enemy is my best friendas long as google will pick on MS im willing to live with it happily .... when MS will be out of the picture will trun to the next monsterRE: Google is NOT your friendSure,...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Google is NOT your friend
- ZDNet Education blogger, Christopher Dawson, wrote a post titled, "Google is your friend." Dude, I can assure you that Google is NOT my friend. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Google Inc., Times, Web 2.0, Productivity, Financial Services, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Google is your friend
- I know there are those among us who lack my love for all things Google. Sure, it shows our kids ads, keeps track of the searches coming out of our buildings, displays naughty thumbnails that only the best of content filters can block, most kids don't look beyond the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
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