Yearly Archives: 2011

LinkedIn Group: Public Transport IT and Data

I just started a LinkedIn group to discuss and share ideas for using information technology and data to improve public transportation. The group is called: Public Transport Information Technology and Data Here’s how I describe it: Among the issues we discuss are: mobile phone applications, use of social networking media and gaming, Web 2.0 concepts,Read… Read more »

Avoid Chaotic Communications In PM

Project managers spend %90 of their time in communication We have so many different ways to communicate with one another. We can pick up the phone and call using either a land line or a cell phone; we can send an email or a text using our computers or our various handheld devices and weRead… Read more »

An Example Of Great Networking

Yesterday in Why You Suck At Networking I focused on some bad examples of attempts at networking. Here’s a good one. Yavor has been in the pmStudent community for a long time now, and has interacted with me consistently over time. He has offered helpful feedback to me and advice for how I can improveRead… Read more »

Aphorism 53

If it needs a sign, it’s badly designed. Don Norman (prompted by Michele Ide-Smith mentioning him and Catherine Howe giving an outing to the wonderful word “affordance”) Original post

Crafting new guidelines for strategic deployment of Social Business systems

AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management has gathered leaders from 18 Social Business and Content Management companies to serve on the second major taskforce project in the social content definition process, this one headed by Professor Andrew McAfee, known as the grandfather of E2.0. “I am excited to partner with AIIM on thisRead… Read more »

Top 10 Ways to Make Your Online Community Suck

Many people face similar problems when launching an online community. They get the technology, staff, and policies in place, and wonder why in six months the community is ailing faster than a blighted plant. The good news is that this is entirely avoidable if you stay away from this top 10 list… Here are 10Read… Read more »

GovBytes: Is Free Wi-Fi The Extra Olive On The Salad?

We’ve all heard the story of the flight attendant who saved her airline $40,000 by recommending one less olive be used in every salad, right? It’s a question of optimization — the money saved outweighs the value the customer received from getting that one extra olive to enjoy. These days, governments are dealing with theRead… Read more »

MA Governor Proposes Deep Budget Cuts, Increased IT Spending: Analysis of the FY 2011-2012 Budget

Deltek Analyst Derek Johnson reports. When Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick introduced his proposed $30.5 billion FY 2011-2012 budget in his January 26, 2011 address, he began by highlighting not what was in the budget, but rather what was not. Patrick advertised what he called “the largest year-over-year spending reduction in 20 years,” and couched theRead… Read more »