HUD Reaches Out With Learning Sessions

Thousands of feds watch live or tune in to webinars that started as management staff meetings. Speakers and the audience beg for more.

Melanie Cohen is the information technology strategist in the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and holds a doctor of management from the University of Maryland University College. She developed HUD's first Information Technology Strategic Plan in 2003.

About five years ago, she turned mundane s