Jessica Mulholland

Recent Articles

• Embracing Google Earth
• Feb 21, 2012
• Five years ago, Google Earth worried government officials. But agencies have since realized that the benefits of using high-resolution, up-to-date imagery of our Earth outweigh its risks.
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• Florida's Emails Move to the Cloud
• Feb 7, 2012
• CIO David Taylor discusses his state moving all Executive Branch agencies’ email to a private cloud — law enforcement included.
• 3 Comments

• CIOs' Top Challenges in 2012
• Jan 17, 2012
• Mobile development and best practices top the list of challenges for CIOs at every level of government.

• Training Community College Students To Implement Health IT
• Jan 3, 2012
• A Midwestern community college consortium is working to train over 5,000 individuals in supporting electronic health records.
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• Putting Seniors to Work in Aiken, S.C.
• Jan 1, 2012
• In a town with a large population of people older than 65, a program that pairs senior citizens and at-risk kids is reaping benefits for both.
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• Governments Do Google Plus
• Dec 6, 2011
• About a month after Google Plus started offering brand pages, government entities have explored how to use the new platform.
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• Video Surveillance On Demand in Schools
• Nov 15, 2011
• One New York school district installed cameras with eyelids, protecting students' and staffers' well-being and privacy.

• Maine Resident Brings Tech to Fishermen, Farmers
• Nov 1, 2011
• A recreational lobster fisher will equip local fishermen and farmers with Internet and software, helping them comply with government regulations.
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• Ohio County Demolishes Homes to Remove Blight
• Oct 31, 2011
• A land bank knocks down foreclosed homes to stabilize Cleveland-area neighborhoods -- all at the lender’s expense.

• Google Enhances Wyoming Gov't Operations
• Oct 18, 2011
• Moving to the cloud has let Equality State government employees focus on the mission and not the platform.

• California's 'Great Realignment'
• Oct 7, 2011
• At a recent Leadership Forum in Sacramento, California leaders discussed recent responsibilities passed down from the state to counties in light of a $10 billion budget deficit.

• How Intersections Now Sense What Will Zoom By
• Oct 4, 2011
• In Pleasanton, Calif., radar-like sensors can more easily detect bicycle traffic, providing safer crossings for cyclists and motorists.
• 6 Comments

• Testing Technology in a Ghost Town
• Sep 20, 2011
• A 20-square-mile town is planned solely to test emerging intelligent and green technologies and innovations -- no inhabitants necessary.
• 4 Comments

• Click Here for More Revenue
• Sep 6, 2011
• The Washington state Department of Transportation is testing advertising on some of its dot-com web pages in an effort to increase revenue.
• 1 Comments

• Shaping Software for a Smarter Portland
• Aug 16, 2011
• City officials in Portland, Ore., and IBM collaborated to create software that can test the outcomes of policy changes before they are implemented.
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