They got back to me and said the 10.9 client is in QA and should be ready for GA in about 1-2 weeks.  I am putting this on hold until then since SnapComms seems to be the best fit for ICA's needs.

SnapComms has what I believe to be a very good solution to internal communication outside of normal email channels.  They have a Mac agent, but it appears they are not yet up-to-date with 10.9.  When talking with a support agent they mentioned that a new version will be coming out this quarter with full 10.9 support.  While I will look around for additional solutions, I think SnapComms is worth waiting on before we commit.

I got ahold of our account rep, and they have a developer meeting tomorrow.  They will bring this up to see if they can get me more information in the next day or two.

Upgrades to WebWork and server OS are complete.  Everything went well and is back up.

Looking at: http://www.snapcomms.com/ and https://www.yammer.com/

Push.io looks like it will require a custom app be developed in order to send push notifications.  I will continue to look more into it.

FlashPanel has a /broadcast and /groupcast setting for Apps Butler which will mass broadcast or groupcast (based on Google Group) a chat message to all users, or all users in the group listed.  This would not cost any additional money to implement.

The VA Lab iMacs and monitors have been refreshed.

Both Tim and I will be working on this.  The cameras are in, FNZ will be scheduled to come out and install the dorm locations.  Outdoor locations will be scheduled around weather.

I can script this in Google Apps if the photos are named something like G:\EmployeePics\<username>.jpg.  I already have a script in place with the contacts API that lets me accomplish this sort of thing, I would just need to write a batch routine and schedule around what I just described.  I can also choose to either override existing photos or leave them alone if a person already updated their own.