Republican senators do a better job than Democratic senators at using social media, says an analysis from two university business professors. The study measures presence on social media platforms... Read more...

Social media hasn't displaced the telephone as the main instrument for calling emergency services, but it's gaining in popularity. Results from an online survey of 1,058 of adults weighted to reflect... Read more...

(Continued from Q&A: Tim Creagan on the 508 refresh and agency compliance) FGIT: You mentioned enforceability. At the hearing, a few people mentioned that some agencies think that they're in... Read more...

The U.S. Access Board is revamping Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and has completed a draft refresh. To kick off the commenting period, a public hearing was held on May 15. FierceGovernmentIT... Read more...

Privacy and consumer-protection groups upset with eroding privacy standards on Facebook filed a complaint May 5 with the Federal Trade Commission, charging that the ubiquitous social media site... Read more...

The General Services Administration launched a first for federal procurement effort when it stood up last year the BetterBuy Project, a collaborative effort done with the American Council for... Read more...

Ensuring that federal online content is accessible to the disabled--as section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires--is typically an afterthought, said Bruce Bailey, accessibility IT specialist at... Read more...

Wikis, blogs and social media--oh my! Behind their firewalls, it turns out the Defense Department and the intelligence community have been busy setting up their own collaborative media sites. Some,... Read more...

The Pentagon has official Facebook sites, and then, of course, there are those sites set up by military families, fans, supporters and possibly interlopers. Janson Communications, a public relations... Read more...

Chris Vein, the CIO for the city and county of San Francisco, is raising an interesting question about whether governments will have to keep running their own websites. He says government websites... Read more...