{"id":4389,"date":"2015-01-25T12:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T17:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2015-01-25T13:14:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T18:14:05","slug":"help-government-become-more-digitally-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/2015\/01\/25\/help-government-become-more-digitally-engaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Government Become More Digitally Engaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"timthumb\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/timthumb.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Opportunity for technical writers comes in knocking when you&#8217;ve got doors to knock on, whether they be in the private or public realms. Here, from David Kimball, in Austin, Texas, is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dlt.com\/government-professionals-high-demand-2015\/\">a reckoning of<\/a> &#8220;Five Government IT Professionals Who Will Be In High Demand in 2015.&#8221;<\/a> David is the &#8220;group vice president of federal&#8221; at Austin IT management software provider <a href=\"the \"group vice president of federal at IT management software provider SolarWinds\" in Austin\">SolarWinds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The five areas in which government needs IT pros, as David sees them, are The Diagnostician, The Developer, The Data Ninja, The Cloud Database Administrator and the Security Mobility Guru. This last refers to IT pros who can protect agencies from digital intrusions in &#8220;the age of the Internet of Things, with mobile connected devices (read: potential threats) seemingly everywhere&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, digital expression is a new form of communication that government agencies are beginning to take really seriously. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/science-and-technology\/join-conversation\">Witness, for example<\/a>, the &#8220;National Conversation&#8221; on Security Technology that the Department of Homeland Security is sponsoring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Great needs lead to great demand,&#8221; David Kimball notes. There are plentiful opportunies for IT pros to shine as way-showers to government agencies, as his helpful post makes clear. \u2013 <em>Doug Bedell<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunity for technical writers comes in knocking when you&#8217;ve got doors to knock on, whether they be in the private or public realms. Here, from David Kimball, in Austin, Texas, is a reckoning of &#8220;Five Government IT Professionals Who Will Be In High Demand in 2015.&#8221; David is the &#8220;group vice president of federal&#8221; at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4410,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions\/4410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}