![]() ![]() Robinson, who now is a partner with Capitol Counsel, called it an “amazing time” when he worked for RIM between 20. ![]() You expected an immediate response, and while you can argue whether it’s healthy or not, you no longer were tethered to your desk so you have more freedom.” We joked about this at BlackBerry, that if you didn’t get a response back in 15 minutes, you started to worry the person was in a car accident or something. “It fundamentally changed how people work and changed managers’ expectations of people who work for them - for better or for worse. It was the first to make remote work possible,” said Clint Robinson, a former vice president of government relations for Research in Motion, which developed the BlackBerry, and a former associate administrator in the General Services Administration’s Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. “The BlackBerry revolutionized the way the federal government worked. “The next day the unlabeled unit was handed back to me with the explanation that the president wanted to keep the unit, but the Secret Service wouldn’t allow it.”įrom the late 1990s to the mid-2010s in meeting rooms from the White House to the Pentagon, on the metro and airplanes and during emergencies, federal employees and contractors fell in love with, became addicted to, and realized the potential of the handheld device. When I asked about it they said ‘it’s for your boss’s boss.’ The secretary was headed to the White House that afternoon so I took him his and asked him if he wanted to offer the unlabeled unit to his boss. Each was labeled with an individual’s name (for the secretary, chief of staff, CIO, etc.) except one with no label. They were able to get us 12 BlackBerrys set up and delivered about two days later. “We needed to quickly support the mobility needs of the new secretary and his team, so about two days after inauguration we had our BlackBerry vendor in to get us information. Insight by Verizon: Can agencies create CX that’s ‘simplistic, delightful and surprising’? Leaders from the Agriculture Department, Education Department, Homeland Security Department and IRS think so and share the work underway in their agencies to make it easy to navigate government services. Roger Baker is a former Commerce Department chief information officer. 4 that Research-In-Motion (RIM) dropped its support for the BlackBerry phone wasn’t surprising to say the least, it did make you stop and think about the impact of the device on the federal sector. 4 that Research-In-Motion (RIM) dropped its support for the BlackBerry phone wasn’t surprising to say the least, it did make you stop and think about the impact. Bush wasn’t allowed to have one, even though he wanted one.įor about 15 years, the BlackBerry phone was Velcroed to every federal and industry executives’ hand from the Oval Office on down. ![]() Native, fluid, not an Android port.President Barack Obama wouldn’t give his up. Or, perhaps you'll be happy with the default set of subscriptions that cover World News, Sport, Technology, Entertainment, Business and more. Enter a web page and we'll scan it for feeds for you. Choose from our extensive live Catalog of feeds. Add RSS and Atom feeds directly from the browser (long press URLs anywhere on the device and share them to FeedMinder) Organize your Twitter and RSS feeds together across any number of configurable tabs to group information in a way that makes sense to you, regardless of source. Full article viewing in app - no more hopping in and out of the browser as with other apps. Optional "Reader Mode" strips adverts and makes easy reading. Swipe down to refresh all, or pull-to-refresh just the active tab. Search bar filters feeds as fast as you can type. Mark-read support, unread counts, mark-tab-read. Configure rules to only be notified of specific topics, friends or feeds so notifications don't become a nuisance. Hub Notifications, Polling, Active Frames, Priority Hub. Share your favorite articles on Facebook, Twitter, Email, BBM and others. Without leaving the app, drill-down on Tweets, follow users, view hashtag searches. Rich, snappy, native UI combines Photos, Tweets, RSS and Atom articles. A Twitter and RSS Reader, FeedMinder is an easy way to pull all your feeds together in one place like the Social Feeds app on BlackBerry 7. ![]()
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