Colorado’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) was created to oversee the state’s land, mineral, water and wildlife resources. Full story »
“People don’t typically associate Arkansas with the cutting edge,” explains Daron Frederick, Network Administrator for the Arkansas Supreme Court. “That’s why it’s such a pleasure to have the U.S. Supreme Court looking to us for ideas about the unique and innovative ways we are implementing technology.”
With unemployment rates hovering around 10%, stocks subject to wild swings and experts unable to agree whether the country is likely to dip into a double recession, cities across the country are being forced to confront deeper and deeper budget cuts. Full story »
Ed Yonker joined the Franklin County IT Department in 2004, after spending many years in the banking industry. “Government is a different world,” he explains. “Because of its size and structure, it’s a lot harder to implement new technology and get everyone on the same page.” Full story »
Ramsey County, the second most populous county in Minnesota, has always worked hard to provide the best service at the lowest possible cost to its taxpayers. But as the nation reeled from the recession that began in 2008, it became clear to the county that it needed to better leverage technology if it wanted to continue providing high-quality services without exceeding its budget. Full story »
In the May GME, Fresno County Assessor Recorder’s (ASR) Office described how it uses Laserfiche Quick Fields to process 95% of incoming forms in its Property Transfers Division. This month, Fresno’s Vito Filippi, Systems and Procedures Analyst, gets granular about how the Division configures Quick Fields sessions to capture and process its ‘Claims for Reassessment Exclusion’ forms. Full story »
Covering just two square miles, Chelsea, MA is the state’s smallest city, but also one of its densest with 35,000 residents residing in its two square miles. Housing a dozen schools and a dozen-plus more municipal buildings, Chelsea is “certainly compact,” as IT Director John Hyland puts it. Full story »
Located in the middle of California’s San Joaquin Valley, Fresno County comprises over a million citizens and about six million square miles of incorporated cities and smaller communities. Full story »
Bremer County, IA, faced a problem not unique to modest-sized municipalities: after making a significant investment in a document management system to manage its land records, users had a hard time letting go of the paper. Full story »
The Virginia Port Authority hired Angela Ellis as its SharePoint Administrator in 2007, but it wasn’t long before her boss, Deputy Executive Director of Administration and CFO Rodney Oliver, enlisted her to start looking into enterprise content management (ECM) solutions.
“Rodney recognized that although SharePoint could do many great things for our organization, DoD 5015.2-certified records management wasn’t one of them,” says Ellis, who today is a senior web analyst for the Port Authority. Full story »
When making the case for upgrading Shakopee, MN, to Laserfiche Avante, Carrie Duckett, the city’s Information Technology Coordinator, did her due diligence. “To date, there hasn’t been one Minnesota city that’s purchased Laserfiche and left for one of its main competitors. But in 2010 alone, six of the state’s cities and counties migrated onto Laserfiche from a competitive system.” Full story »
With 265,000 residents, Durham County is home to the famed Research Triangle Park, one of the most prominent high-tech R&D centers in the world. As such, the county’s IT Department has quite the legacy to live up to.
“Technical innovation and efficiency are important to our citizens,” says Steve Barden, Systems Development Supervisor for Durham County, “and they’re a top priority for the IT Department as well.” Full story »
With its motto, “One Team, One Mission,” it’s clear that unity is important to the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD). However, without consistent access to the PD’s law enforcement records and administrative files, officers and employees had a difficult time staying on the same page.
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