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State governments can sign a modified YouTube terms of service agreement stripped of problematic legal clauses, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers announced Jan. 17. The Read more...

During the month of January the State Department will take five questions from the international Twitter community every Friday after its daily press briefing. The department fielded questions during Read more...

House committees are being encouraged to post legislative documents such as bills, amendments, and resolutions onto a new centralized website and utilize XML schemas when doing so. Following a Read more...

Simply capturing an image of social media content hosted by third parties isn't a sufficient archiving strategy, says Charley Barth, director of records at the Department of the Navy. Since October Read more...

Auditors posing as the taxpaying public say IRS.gov provides good customer service, but telephone assistance options fall short. A July 22 Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report Read more...

Hacker collectivist Anonymous relies on rudimentary exploits "commonly associated with less skilled hackers, referred to as 'Script Kiddies,'" says the Homeland Security Department in an unclassified Read more...

While House and Senate offices say they use social media for broadcasting and better understanding constituent concerns, but traditional forms of communication are still their preferred medium for Read more...

The ability to track the origin and spread of memes would be a useful battlefield tool, says the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In a broad area announcement for research proposals dated Read more...

Social media and new media offices continue to crop up across the federal government. They face two significant challenges: Agencies want them to experiment with new methods of citizen engagement and Read more...

Cloud computing lends itself to hype, doubt and uncertainty, acknowledges Mary Davie, the General Services Administration assistant commissioner for the office of assisted acquisition, in a March 22 Read more...