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Digital Communities Events

The Digital Communities web site is designed to be a community affair both for the public and private sectors. As such, we are always interested in hearing of your community or organization's planned events. From events submitted, we select listings to feature on the Digital Communities site based on relevancy and likely interest on the part of our readers.

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Events

Accela User Conference

Join hundreds of Accela users and staff, government leaders, and special guests for an educational and fun-filled opportunity to connect with the people, products and trends at the forefront of the government technology industry.

Aug 19, 2008 – Aug 22, 2008
City
Las Vegas, NV

Contact
Registration Accela

Phone
888-476-1177

Website
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Intranet 2.0 for Government

Attend this conference to learn helpful tools, tips, and techniques to leverage Web 2.0 technologies and take your organization's intranet to the next level. Hear practical advice, firsthand, on how to integrate the latest technologies into your intranet to ensure accessibility, achieve maximum employee engagement and deliver results from leading government agencies and organizations at National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Virginia Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of the Treasury, and more.

Oct 6, 2008 – Oct 9, 2008
City
Washington, DC, DC

Contact
Kelly Flynn

Phone
773-695-9400

Website
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Fall 2008 Telework Exchange Town Hall Meeting

Telework Exchange will host the Fall Town Hall Meeting on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 to discuss how to create a telework environment through technology and collaboration.

Oct 15, 2008
City
Washington, DC

Contact
Lanier Hall

Phone
703-883-9000 ext 118

Website
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Results-Based Management for Government

Attend this conference to learn how to integrate performance measures, program evaluation, strategic planning and budgeting into a results-based management system to ensure innovative, efficient and effective government. Hear from leading departmental and agency representatives and experts at Washington State Transportation Improvement Board, Public Works and Government Services Canada, New York State Workers' Compensation Board, Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Public Health Agency of Canada, and more, how to make results-based management an integral part of your strategic planning process and advance your efforts to the next level.

Nov 3, 2008 – Nov 6, 2008
City
Ottawa, ON

Contact
Melissa Wittenberg

Phone
773-695-9400

Website
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Congress of Cities and Exposition

This conference is the National League of Cities most important annual conference drawing more than 4,000 local elected officials. It is a chance for local elected officials to share ideas about how to make their communities better for their citizens.

Nov 11, 2008 – Nov 15, 2008
City
Orlando, FL

Contact
Lynch NLC

Phone
888-319-3864

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CALBO 2009 Annual Business Meeting

The Annual Business Meeting is a multi-day conference and trade show attended by building officials, inspectors, plan checkers, state representatives, industry representatives and others in the code enforcement community. This event provides an excellent opportunity for education, networking and marketing.

Feb 2, 2009 – Feb 6, 2009
City
Monterey, CA

Contact
CALBO ORG

Phone
916-457-1103

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Member News

Hyland Software Acquires Liberty Information Management Systems
Hyland Software, the developer of the OnBase enterprise content management (ECM) software suite, today announced that the company has acquired Liberty Information Management Systems (Liberty IMS).
State of Minnesota Signs Agreement with Microsoft for Single Email System
The State of Minnesota has signed an agreement with Microsoft to provide a single email and calendaring system for the entire executive branch.
Microsoft and Illinois State Police Collaborate on Best Practices and Information Technology Architecture for Homeland Security Fusion Centers
Architecture to be a model for agencies and departments across all jurisdictions.

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Highlights

  • Whitepaper - Mobility Matters in Extending Public Service Delivery

    Mobile technologies are making mission-critical data (voice, data, video, maps) available on-demand and on-site through mobile networks and devices. Many organizations are planning remote access to their production-level enterprise applications. This whitepaper explores the drivers and benefits for going mobile in the public sector, along with suggestions for getting started.

  • Digital Directions Podcast

    If you were Kevin Bushweller and had recently launched a publication aimed at helping school district CIOs integrate technology, you would be smiling as much as he does. Learn about Kevin's new venture, Digital Directions, in this interview...and the social media project he has created for educators.

  • Why Mobile Device Management is Critical to IT
    Learn more about how IT organizations can manage mobile devices as corporate assets, and safeguard the corporate data that is accessed on them.