The salesforce.com Public Sector team at Carahsoft would like to personally invite you to CloudForce DC on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at the Walter E. Convention Center. Come meet with an exclusive group of peers and thought leaders to hear how leaders are transforming their agencies by utilizing new social, mobile, and cloud technologies to engage citizens' expectations of government. Join us for an event hosted by Vivek Kundra, EVP of Public Se...

Social Networks as Unified CommunicationEnabling Security and Compliance for the Federal Government The use of social networks is now allowed in the federal agency enterprise for public engagement, interagency collaboration, and federated communication. Hundreds of thousands of users have access to read and write on Facebook, Twitter, Skype, LinkedIn, wikis, blogs, etc. But today there is little to no information assurance, data leakage preven...

To remain relevant and improve service levels in the face of substantial across-the-board budget and personnel cuts, state agencies require a new way to work. Today’s operational tempo is simply too great for the same old approach with business-as-usual collaboration tools. Many 2.0 social tools have fallen dramatically short and have left most agencies with aFrankenSocial monster to contend with. Now is the time to migrate to a more eff...

Over 2.1 billion internet users now have a voice through social media. There are 300-500 million tweets that go through Twitter each day, 800 million active Facebook users, and over 75 million discussion boards and online forums exist. If your organization is struggling to aggregate all this content and handle the immense volume of social media, then it is important for you to learn how to make sense of and better interact with social media us...