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The collaboration gurus
The Collaboration Project, led by the National Academy of Public Administration, looks to be a center of excellence focused on the Web 2.0 world and how these tools can help government

• Watch a video of Research Director Maxine Lunn discussing the results of a recent survey on the use of collaboration tools. Also find links to the full survey results, a poll question about collaboration and more.
• Learn more about the Collaboration Project and find a link to the District of Columbia’s evidence warehouse solicitation wiki.

Four cases in collaboration

• Case 1: Intellipedia
  Intelligence analysts establish trust in an online community of their own making
• Case 2: TSA’s IdeaFactory
  Frontline employees give unfettered suggestions to the headquarters office
• Case 3: Puget Sound Information Challenge
  Good ideas come to government agencies that ask people to contribute them
• Case 4: MAX Federal Community
  Budget managers do their number crunching in a collegial online workplace
  

DOD rallies around Lean Six Sigma
The methodology has become the Defense Department's "tool of choice" for business transformation

NEWS

Buzz of the Week: Security does matter

Stolen VA laptop caught in safety net
Department’s mobile data security policies and practices prevented information breach

DHS lets industry liaison keep business ties

Bush’s e-mail misery has company

Circuit

COMMENT

Editorial: The collaboration era
The real power of information comes when it is shared

Kelman: Keeping an eye on the prize

• Read Kelman’s blog, The Lectern.
• Read Kelman’s November 2005 column, "The grand challenge."

Fountain: FISMA's fifth birthday

Guerra: Regulating profit

Letters

• Comment on NSPS.

MANAGEMENT

A collaboration leader
Angela Norris learned leadership lessons as a member of Voyagers class of 2007

SES pay is broken, critics say

EXECUTECH

Justice focuses on the process
Business process management helps reduce costs and improve results

PROCUREMENT

GAO disputes savings reports
Auditors find Forest Service lacked data to prove it complied with spending limits

Army reviews current, future data center storage needs

POLICY

OMB: Nonstandard isn’t OK
A new memo brings the government a step closer to having uniform financial standards

• Read OMB's memo on the Financial Management Line of Business (.pdf).

Clearances: Faster, but not better

FLIPSIDE

Government in the movies

Take the FCW.com poll

• Which Web 2.0 tools does your agency use to share information?

Letters

• Send a letter to the editor at letters@fcw.com.

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