Modernization

Overcome your mobile insecurity

Securing tablet PCs and smart phones calls for a mix of planning, policy and technology.

Modernization

How to be a cloud

Embracing an internal cloud model for IT service delivery will require most agency IT departments to change the way they do business.

Digital Government

An uncertain prognosis for personal health records

Feds are trying to push self-managed medical records into the mainstream, but it's been slow going.

People

Telework Enhancement Act: Easing into a new mindset

The sponsor of the Telework Enhancement Act talks about the progress agencies are making, what has held back telework in the past and how those obstacles can be overcome.

People

Managing teleworkers can be business as usual

Manager resistance to telework often revolves around perceived challenges of monitoring remote workers' performance, but some telework veterans say separate oversight isn't needed.

People

Teleworkers stay in the loop

Popular perceptions of telework as the playground for slackers and the disconnected don't jibe with reality, studies show.

Digital Government

4 natural advances in the evolution of Gov 2.0

As agencies find their voices with social media, the next step is to use those online connections to let people have their say, too.

Modernization

Agency data dwells in private home -- for now

Agencies are gravitating toward private clouds, but some say the bigger payoff is in the public version.

People

Government data sharing gets past the warm-up

More data than ever is available on government websites, but the hard part has just begun.

Cybersecurity

Countering the consumerization of IT

Smart phones and tablets are turning up in the government workplace, raising new security and management concerns.

People

Don't try this at home

Here are a few common telework taboos.

People

The telework kit: Regular vs. ad hoc home workers

Here are checklists to provide gear for two types of teleworkers.

People

4 ingredients of a telework success

Cover these four essentials to outfit a workforce that can take work-at-home days -- planned or not -- in stride.

People

How to avoid information gluttony

See how these executives beat back information overload with a few tried-and-true techniques.

Digital Government

Smart phone as clinical tool: A teledermatology pilot program

A smart-phone pilot project gives patients in underserved areas better access to dermatologists.

Modernization

Smart phone as patient tool: A mental health application

A project funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse turns a smart phone into a tool for aiding people with borderline personality disorder.

Modernization

How your mobile phone could help keep you healthy

With smart-phone use on the rise, health care agencies are launching a variety of mobile applications for patients and providers.

Modernization

5 ways to ease desktop PC-induced pain

Check out these five ways agencies are trying to solve their love/hate relationship with PCs.

Modernization

Can the Apple iPad get any workplace respect?

Apple's iPad tablet computer is attracting some interested glances from government

Cybersecurity

20 critical security controls your organization should focus on

Consensus Audit Guidelines identify 20 security controls that enterprises cannot afford to ignore.