Marine Corps plans support services buying portal
The Marine Corps Systems Command has hired Appian to build the Enterprise Procurement Portal for its Acquisition Center for Support Services.
@Info.Policy: Webmasters must grapple with linkage policy
Should a federal Web page have links to other Internet resources? Links are easy enough to create, so why not? Unfortunately, life is not that simple.
Another View: Is Web scrubbing an exercise in futility?
When cuneiform stone tablets represented state-of-the-art printing, the best records retention policy was "Don't drop them." Each successive form of IT--printing press, filing cabinet, copier, e-mail and Internet--has made it harder to control information flow and access, and especially to reclaim freely disseminated material.
EPA moves forward on PeopleSoft implementations
The Environmental Protection Agency recently passed the one-year anniversary of its PeopleSoft 7 human resources application, and the agency is working on upgrading the HR module to the Web Version 8.3.
New Education site targets Hispanic users
The Bush administration earlier this month launched a new Web site to help Hispanics find information about getting a college education.
It's full speed ahead for Navy XML efforts
The Navy's Extensible Markup Language Working Group has published the second edition of its XML developers' guide, and the group isn't even a year old.
GSA portal will carry e-Grants services
The Health and Human Services Department this month launched the first phase of its e-Grants project, which will let users search for grant opportunities on one Web site.
Power User: Google is a user's best friend
Every Web user should know how to exploit the features of the powerful Google.com search engine. Besides the news.google.com beta test site I've mentioned before, it also features a free but invaluable Google toolbar that you can download from <a href="http://www.google.com">google.com</a>. It appears as a little search window in every browser session.
Benefits portal attracts new partners
The Labor Department's <a href="http://GovBenefits.gov">GovBenefits.gov</a> portal is growing by leaps and bounds.
For Rhode Island portal, Linux rules
When Jim Willis decided to use Linux software for Rhode Island's new rules and regulations portal, many in the state's government doubted it would work.
Navy steams forward on XML standardization
Less than a year into the Navy's effort to standardize the use of Extensible Markup Language, the service's XML working group recently published the second edition of its developers' guide.
Park Service lights the Web
This year's July 4 fireworks in Washington were not only broadcast on TV but also on the Web. The National Park Service produced it in cooperation with TVWorldwide.com Inc. of Chantilly, Va., a streaming video service provider.
OMB's new Web site copies FirstGov model
The Office of Management and Budget earlier this month revamped its Web site, applying the same three-clicks-to-service approach as the <a href="http://www.FirstGov.gov">FirstGov.gov</a> portal.
Command system gets 11 upgrades since Sept. 11
The Defense Department is working on a corollary to the adage that what you don't know can kill you. It goes: What modern warfighters know can kill their enemies.
OPM awards contract to develop an e-learning site
The Office of Personnel Management last month moved closer to unveiling its new e-learning Web site. It awarded a task order to Geolearning Inc. of West Des Moines, Iowa, to redesign the National Learning Center's site and provide courses.
Watch out Amazon, here comes MMS
The Interior Department's Minerals Management Service today unveiled an online ordering system that lets users research oil well and gas well data online and buy the data on CD-ROM.
Another View: NCI designed its site with users in mind
It's hard to imagine how the world got along before the Web. Now, it is hard to figure out how to live with it.
Retirement system steps down for Web system
After 29 years of faithful service, Wisconsin's retirement system is making room for the next generation.
App tracks firefighting assets
As the worst fire in Colorado's history sweeps across thousands of acres, an interagency wildfire management organization has begun deploying a Web application to manage firefighting resources online.
Pair of lawmakers pushes 508 rule for Capitol Hill
Congress is intended to be of the people, by the people and for the people, but on many lawmakers' Web sites, that doesn't include the nation's 54 million disabled citizens.
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