(6/3/2008) Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations is hoping to increase the value of what it offers local residents and businesses by studying the way Web 2.0 tools work, according to its deputy minister. | (6/2/2008) On a recent plane trip I finished reading Ken Follet's historical novel The Pillars of the Earth. With two hours remaining in the flight I reached into my travel bag for more reading material and pulled out the most recent letter to shareholders written by Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. | (6/2/2008) In his keynote address to delegates at the 2008 Lac Carling Congress in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., former deputy prime minister John Manley cited the U.S. democratic presidential party hopeful, Barack Obama as a model for Web 2.0.
| (5/29/2008) Any employee can get in trouble for personal blogging on company time, but U.S. government workers, as one NASA employee has discovered, can get into a special kind of legal trouble if they also write about politics. | (5/29/2008) A trade complaint has been filed against the European Union by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), saying the E.U. has violated a World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement by taxing the import of some tech products. | (5/28/2008) Governments around the world are moving some or all of their services into an online environment. In cases where integration and rethinking of services is a fundamental part of the e-government initiative, professional project managers can play a key role. | (5/28/2008) Governments around the world are moving some or all of their services into an online environment. In cases where integration and rethinking of services is a fundamental part of the e-government initiative, professional project managers can play a key role. | (5/28/2008) IBM Canada has announced the creation of a Centre of Excellence in Quebec City, the aim of which is to facilitate the international sharing of medical documents between clinics, physicians and hospitals. The exclusive global provider of the solution is Artefact Informatique, a division of LGS Group Inc. (an IBM company). | (5/27/2008) The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley regulations served as a wake-up call for CIOs to formalize document retention policies to meet compliance requirements. But regulatory demands-and the number of documents produced daily-continue to grow. | (5/26/2008) In the business world, the level of control over wireless devices seems to vary widely, swinging back and forth between two extremes. At the one end of the pendulum is a policy in which very few (if any) workers are authorized to use wireless devices, and the approval process is stringent and centrally controlled. |
  | |  | | Blog Spotlight: Sandford Borins |  | As Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, Sandford Borins brings InterGovWorld.com readers exclusive insights into how and why the public sector is changing. You'll find new perspectives and questions, observations and objectives, lessons and answers. Cover to Cover, the blog by Prof. Sandford Borins, appears every Thursday. Inside Cover to Cover | |
| | | Unified Communications |  | Unity is a word often heard in the public sector, with myriad agencies and departments looking to foster collective thinking around some of today's most pressing issues. The word, however, doesn't usually get mentioned in the same breath as technology. That's a situation, though, that might soon be changing, thanks to a new software platform known as unified communications.
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