DHS Keeping Watchful Eye on Social Media, Storing Information
The Department of Homeland Security announced last month it was looking into how it could use Twitter as an intelligence tool and how to monitor social media networks. DHS is now creating accounts to monitor site activity and establish an archiving system for the information it gathers, ABC News reports. “The NOC (National Operations Center) [...]
The General Services Administration, the first agency to move email to the cloud, is now planning to move information sharing and program management to the cloud as well. Laura Stanton, GSA’s director of process improvement and communications, said the move is expected to happen in early 2012, according to Federal Computer Week. GSA recently selected [...]
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The “Bring Your Own Device” trend is all the rage at workplaces across the country and IBM unveiled new social networking and collaboration applications Wednesday to help employees get on the company’s secure enterprise networks. IBM itself is also part of the BYOD trend, as previously covered here on The New New Internet. IBM said [...]
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NASA led the way in joining Google Plus, and now more federal agencies are quickly following. The U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the National Nuclear Security Administration, among other agencies, have now joined Google’s social network, according to a report from Information Week. Originally only made available to individual users, Google Plus was [...]
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Once selected as the most innovative federal agency by the Partnership for Public Service, NASA is on the forefront yet again as it is apparently the first agency to join Google Plus. The space agency’s Google Plus page went live Monday, the same day Google began to open its social networking service to government agencies [...]
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Ch2M Hill announced the debut of its social networking tool WaterMatch. The environmental company’s motto with WaterMatch is to “promote beneficial water reuse around the world, because no water should be wasted.” Users will login to the WaterMatch Map to find waste-water treatment plants close to their current and potential future operations. Using the social [...]
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Yahoo Research launched an online study this week to test the well-known social theory that says any two people can be linked through six degrees of separation. To pull off the Small World Experiment, Yahoo is asking for help from the the nearly 750 million Facebook users. Any Facebook user can sign up to participate [...]
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A 39-year-old truck driver has been sent to jail for 18 months for cyber stalking a 16-year-old Canadian actress, Vancouver Sun reports. David William Cholin pleaded guilty to harassing the actress between 2006 and March 2010 in what has become the first case in British Columbia involving a cyber stalker of a celebrity using social [...]
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