Navy CIO's advice to bloggers

Navy CIO Robert Carey was the first federal CIO to host a public blog beginning in January 2008. His cutting edge use of social media has become a primer for what federal CIOs could be doing with social media.

He sat down recently for an interview with ExecutiveGov.com to talk about what he's learned and how he thinks every federal agency should balance security with accessibility.

"I found that Web 2.0 allows us to accelerate things," Carey said. "So I like to feel like at the end of every day that I have made a difference, however, small at times, to the lives and the information management and technology associated with the warfighters. I find that Web 2.0 becomes one of the vehicles to accelerate that because everyone can now be a user of the Internet and more of a content manager and content generator."

Carey also talked about the importance of cybersecurity, as well as educating users about basic iSecurity precautions in dealing with phishing, email security and web browsing. He discussed how he has exchanged ideas with commercial Internet companies such as Google, Facebook and Craigslist about what security metrics they are using and how to strengthen the Navy's own cybersecurity initiatives.

"We've found that they've done some things that we haven't done because their business model is a little different than ours," Carey said. "We've done some things that they haven't done because again we are a little bit different from them."

For more on the Navy CIO and his blog:
- see this ExecutiveGov.com article

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