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Political campaigns to leverage mobile more in 2012
Mobile outreach as part of political campaigns is not a flash in the pan and will only increase in the 2012 presidential election, said a panel of experts speaking at a Feb. 14 Brookings Institution...
CRS survey reveals inconsistency in telework adoption rates
Recent research shows the Agriculture Department, General Services Administration and Patent and Trademark Office leading the way in implementing improved telework policies under the Telework
Twitter users can't tell truth from tweeted fiction
Twitter users do poorly at determining whether a particular tweet is true or false, and those who have more experience with the microblogging service tend to be more credible than novices, finds a
Teleworking PTO employees process more patents, less expensive
Patent and Trademark Office employees participating in the agency's largest telework arrangement, called the Patent Hoteling Program, process more patent applications per year than their in-office
FEMA focuses on speed, not perfection in using social media
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is using information gathered from social media monitoring when deciding how to respond to a disaster. While official assessments are more thorough, speed is
Social media a 'primary source' of intel, says FBI
Count the FBI as yet another federal agency seeking to refine raw social media into intelligence gold. Among the things the FBI says could be extracted from the mountain of tweet streams, blogs and
British juror sentenced for Googling as courts grapple with mobile devices
A British juror was sentenced Jan. 23 to six months imprisonment in the United Kingdom for researching a defendant's past on the Internet during deliberations--a problem that although still rare, has
Swearing on Twitter could be sign of coming protests
Increased swearing on Twitter could be a sign of societal discontent, says a study from the Rand Corp that analyzed an archive of Tweets from 2009 with the hash tag #IranElection. In a report
NASCIO negotiates new YouTube terms of service
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
Terrorists active in social media, says paper
Terrorist groups use online social network sites to monitor military personnel and recruit new followers, says a new paper by a University of Haifa communications professor. Gabriel Weimann, in a
