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Welcome, today is Tuesday, February 9, 2010 |
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In an unpredictable, fast-paced world, all levels and branches of government need to stay on top of the most current and critical information to deliver top-notch service to their constituents. This is why the public sector stands out as the leading adopter of wireless technology. The BlackBerry® solution is the wireless solution governments choose most.
Cisco® Unified Communications Solutions enable collaboration so that government agencies can quickly adapt as their mission and program requirements change while increasing productivity, improving efficiency through speed and innovation, and delivering a rich-media experience across any workspace, securely and with optimal quality. These solutions, available both on-premises and on demand, offer customers choice and flexibility while enabling powerful new ways to collaborate within and outside of the organization.
The United States General Services Administration (GSA) helps Federal agencies better serve the public by offering, at best value, superior workplaces, expert solutions, acquisition services, and management policies.
GSA's Role in Telework and Other Alternative Workplace Arrangements:
- Partners with the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on policy development and other activities necessary to advance teleworking throughout the Federal government.
- Provides guidance and assistance to agencies regarding the establishment and operation of alternative workplace arrangements (AWA).
- Conducts research, pilot tests, and other examinations to develop recommendations and other information on policies, practices, technology, and other tools to support telework and other AWA.
- Sponsors 14 telework centers in the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area, which serve both the public and private sectors, in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.
A Global Technology Company
Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of printing and imaging solutions for offices and homes. Since separating from IBM in 1991, Lexmark's product line has expanded to include laser printers, inkjet printers, and multifunction devices, as well as associated supplies and services.
Creating Customers For Life
Lexmark's success is driven by the company's overarching commitment to its customers. With a corporate vision of "Customers For Life," we earn our customers' loyalty by listening to them, anticipating their needs and working to create value for them. Our products are sold in more than 150 countries in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Pacific Rim and the Caribbean.
Responsible Employer and Neighbor
Lexmark is a socially responsible company in our global community. We strive to maintain best practices for sustainability - balancing economic, environmental and social concerns.
Sprint offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communication services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers, businesses, and government users. Sprint is widely recognized for developing, engineering, and deploying innovative technologies, including two robust wireless networks serving over 53 million customers; industry leading mobile data services; instant national and international walkie-talkie capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone.
Real-time collaboration and decision making is easier when the whole team is assembled in one place, but that is not always possible. Adobe Connect Pro helps government organizations accelerate telework / team decision-making regardless of where people are located by equipping them with a powerful and easy-to-use set of tools for desktop video conferencing and content sharing. Adobe Connect Pro allows non-technical users to share everything from text and graphics files to multimedia presentations and Web sites; collect comments from multiple reviewers; and host live, interactive discussions online, without the hassle of any software downloads.
Comcast Business Services provides a variety of services to businesses including Teleworker service, a commercial level Broadband service designed for employees based in a home office or utilizing remote access for essential business activities. With downloads speeds of up to 16Mbps and 24/7 support, Comcast Teleworker is a smart solution enabling your remote access workforce to easily and consistently communicate, interact and collaborate.
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, is a leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services, with 23.9 million cable customers, 15.3 million high-speed Internet customers and 7 million voice customers. Our high-speed Internet service operates across our vast network, with more than 145,000 miles of fiber. We currently serve 18 of the top 21 markets delivering multi-tier Ethernet, broadband and wideband services.
Government agencies create, store and distribute huge amounts of data & have a responsibility to make much of that information available to its citizens. Google Enterprise provides innovative technologies that help government agencies organize information and make it accessible & useful to the citizens & to authorized government employees. Google's solutions for search, geospatial data, and communication & collaboration are easy to use and quick to deploy – and they all benefit from the familiar user interface, speed, & scalability of Google's consumer products.
Hughes Telework Solutions provides your agency with a single uniform and comprehensive answer to the problem of connecting teleworking employees with secure, high-speed Internet/intranet and email access.
Agencies that spend time and money reimbursing its teleworkers for broadband services should consider a single-source solution that simplifies billing, troubleshooting, network monitoring, and proactive network management. Isn't it time the telecommunications component of your telework program receives the same kind of network care that the rest of your network does? HughesNet Optimized Networks can replace the jumble of individually procured (and reimbursed) broadband services.
One agency telework program, one network, one bill.
Juniper Networks, the leader in high-performance networking, provides fast, reliable, and secure access to applications and services over a single network, at scale. Juniper Networks offers government and industry a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of network-centric services and applications. Through leveraged partnerships with the leading systems integrators and service providers, Juniper continues to extend its highly successful portfolio of high-performance, secure networking solutions throughout the federal enterprise, from the data center and the desktop to geospatial applications involving multiple partners and huge amounts of data.
Juniper's end-to-end networking solutions include best-in-class IP switching, routing, security (SSL VPN, firewalls, intrusion prevention, network access control), application acceleration, and network management. Juniper's secure networking infrastructure helps ensure Continuity of Operations Programs (COOP) and telework deployments to support increasingly distributed and mobile workers, either as normal agency operations or in the face of cyber attacks, pandemics, natural disasters, or other events threatening network disruptions.
The world's top 100 service providers, 99 of the Fortune 100, and hundreds of federal, state, and local government agencies around the globe are among the many demanding organizations that rely on Juniper Networks to quickly meet their high-performance networking requirements.
Commuter Connections is a regional network of transportation organizations in the Washington metropolitan region dedicated to easing the commute in order to help reduce congestion and improve air quality. Commuter Connections is housed at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and is a program of the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board. Commuter Connections is funded by the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and U.S. Departments of Transportation.
The Federal Managers Association (FMA) is the largest, oldest, and foremost federal employee organization representing the interests of the 200,000 managers, supervisors and executives in the federal government today. FMA advocates excellence in public service through effective management and professionalism, as well as the active representation of its members' interests and concerns. FMA advances its mission through consultation in the Executive Branch and advocacy in Congress, outstanding professional development programs, informative publications and networking opportunities for its members.
The Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA) consists of over 100 federal leaders in a variety of technology areas of expertise. Meeting twice a year, the GTRA Council brings together executive-level government technology leaders to collaborate, strategize and create innovative solutions for government-wide challenges. Through these council meetings, GTRA provides annual required continuing education (CEUs) in the areas of cloud computing, virtualization, security, enterprise architecture, technology, project management, health IT, green IT and leadership while helping them identify affordable effective technology solutions.
IT is enabling significant changes in our government. The implications for average Americans are profound. The voice of tomorrow's government today, MeriTalk is an online community that combines professional networking and thought leadership to drive the government IT community dialogue. Designed to mix new faces, new voices, and fresh perspectives from government IT, workforce, and policy leaders, MeriTalk enables new cross-cutting debate.
Developed as a partnership among the Federal Business Council; Federal Employee Defense Services; Federal Managers Association; GovLoop; National Treasury Employees Union, the largest Federal workforce union; New Ideas for Government; United Service Organizations; and WTOP/WFED radio, MeriTalk is a community site.
Americans need effective government. Every day, we rely on our federal government to deliver vital services from protecting the homeland to promoting a competitive economy to preserving our natural resources. The Partnership for Public Service works to revitalize our Federal government by inspiring a new generation to serve and by transforming the way government works.
For information on becoming a sponsor of the Fall 2009 Telework Exchange Town Hall Meeting on September 24, 2009, please contact:
Cindy Auten
(703) 489-1185
cauten@teleworkexchange.com
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