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Yesterday was the second day of the 2012 Best Practices Exchange, and the sessions I attended were delightfully heavy on discussion and i...

Today was the first day of the 2012 Best Practices Exchange (BPE), an annual event that brings together archivists, librarians, IT profe...

The 2011 Best Practices Exchange (BPE) proceeds apace, and today I’m going to focus upon yesterday’s plenary session, which featured Leslie...

Last week, the Chief Information Officer of the United States released the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy , which outlines how the federal...

Last week, the Boston Phoenix published an article by Chris Faraone highlighting how local, state, and federal governments are struggling ...

Prompted by the release of a scathing April 2005 U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations report , in June 2005 U.S. News ...

The Hudson River, as seen from the grounds of the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site , Hyde Park, New York, 4 June 2010. Last week, I...

Last Tuesday (23 March), the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Subcommittee on Federal Financial Managem...

On 19 March, the New York State Chief Information Officer/Office for Technology (CIO/OFT)and the New York State Archives jointly hosted t...

If you're interested in electronic records, open government, and the relationship between the two and will be in (or can arrange to be i...

Last week, I posted registration information for the Open Government in the Digital Age Summit, which the New York State Chief Information ...

If you're interested in electronic records, digital preservation, and government accountability and transparency, you'll want to att...

Here's an interesting tidbit: information technology research and consulting firm Gartner predicts that evolving business needs will c...