Obama signs bill that kills DOD pay-for-performance system →
NSPS employees to go back to General Schedule; unions laud effort
White House Site Goes Open Source →
The Obama Administration said Oct. 24 it has relaunched Whitehouse.gov using the Drupal open-source content management platform. Founded and developed by a 2-year-old company named Acquia that touts the software as “social publishing,” Drupal marks a transition for the White House site from running on proprietary software to being an open-source site.
Pay-for-Performance Program Gets the Boot →
Christmas came early for some federal employees and their unions Wednesday as lawmakers delivered one of the biggest items on their wish list, repealing a controversial pay-for-performance program.
Women Are Sort Of More Tentative Than Men, Aren't They? →
“The metaphor that men and women are from different planets should be jettisoned and replaced with a more accurate one,” Palomares writes in his article. “Men and women are from different blocks in the same neighborhood, and they tend to move often.”
DOD said likely to adopt limited social networking -- Federal Computer Week →
The tools may be used on military-controlled networks, Navy CIO Carey says
