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The NIEM program is inviting 80 active NIEM practitioners to attend National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Practitioner Technical Exchange Meeting (TEM) to be held on Wednesday, May 23, from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM EST in McLean, Virginia. The NIEM Practitioner TEM seeks to facilitate dialogue between government and private sector practitioners related to using, governing, and managing the NIEM data model as well as to capture practitioner feedback to inform NIEM strategy going forward. This event will feature presentations by Donna Roy, NIEM Executive Director; resources in the NIEM Program Management Office; and NIEM practitioners from across the federal government. The recommended participants for the NIEM Practitioner TEM are government employees as well as government contract support personnel with a moderate to advanced level of NIEM understanding and implementation experience.

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Many state and local jurisdictions have taken steps to provide citizens with mobile access to services, according to a February 2012 survey by GovTech Exchange. The survey of 100 senior-level IT pros from state and local government found that 38 percent of respondents planned to launch new mobile offerings within 12 months, while 23 percent said they were not sure. Of those planning new deployments, 55 percent said they will use responsive design approaches that enable a single source of content to be viewed by multiple device types and operating systems. About half said they will build the apps using in-house developers, while the other half planned to work with outside developers.
Source: Government Technology

A recent Wakefield Research survey of 100 federal, state, and local government IT professionals found that they are using more internal social media networks and fewer external networks than they were 18 months ago. Additionally, video and multimedia are on the rise and blogs are falling in popularity, according to the survey. The most popular Gov 2.0 application being used by the government IT professionals was video and multimedia sharing, reported by 53 percent, up from 44 percent in 2010. "Today, video and multimedia sharing [53 percent] and government-specific social media networks [50 percent] are the most commonly used tools, replacing general social networks and blogs, which were the top picks in the 2010 study," says Wakefield Research. Fewer of the government IT respondents were accessing the external networks this year, compared to the 2010 survey. Finally, external networks and blogs have been becoming less popular for the last 18 months, according to the survey.