Yearly Archives: 2011

Paris, New York & What I’ve Been Doing For The Past Week

Things have been quiet here lately because I’ve been in Paris for the past 5 days, talking to some friends at faberNovel, a very cool company that works in what they call “innovation services”, and also creates co-working spaces. They have their hands in a whole lot of interesting projects and ideas, some of whichRead… Read more »

Proposal Writing Workshop: Writing Better Sections in Half the Time

In this course you will learn and practice speed-writing techniques to produce compliant and compelling federal and commercial proposals in half the time. This frees up your schedule and resources for brainstorming on a solution and polishing your proposal to raise your win probability. It will help you stress less, and make the writing processRead… Read more »

Breaking Down the Social Business Roadmap – Development

Reposted from our AIIM Community Blogs – http://www.aiim.org/community/blogs/community/Breaking-Down-the-Social-Business-Roadmap-Development In continuing of the series of our AIIM Social Business Roadmap blog posts, I will be looking into the topic of development within an organization as one of the 8 steps needed in order to be successful in this new digital age of business, social collaboration andRead… Read more »

Shakespeare goes to the moon over front-page headlines

Political and financial doom and gloom fill the news. There are endless stories about the budget, debt ceiling, Standard and Poor’s rating, deficits, taxes, spending and so forth. These are all serious issues confronting the nation. The best way of approaching them often perplex the politicians we elect to represent us. I believe despite allRead… Read more »

Are the White House telephones rotary dial?

On the TV show “24,” Jack Bauer always seemed to have a cool way of communicating with the president and his superiors at the fictional Counter Terrorism Unit. The White House had the latest gadgets and everyone used them. Realistic? The White House isn’t that advanced, according to the president. Looks like another case ofRead… Read more »

I’m sorry, where did you say you were again?

I’ve just watched the web explode as someone finally put ‘Apple are collecting data on your whereabouts’ into terms a layman could understand. I could have added ‘without you knowing about it’ but you know what? I’m going to take a guess here and say if any of us had bothered to read the UserRead… Read more »

Meet the Goals – No Less (and No More)

“Folks, I have some good news and I have some bad news” the pilot announced. “We have landed in Atlanta way early, but there is a plane at our gate and it will be about 20 minutes before they move.” Throughout the plane you could hear the moans and comments about the airline’s inability toRead… Read more »

Is It Time to Adopt Porfolio Budgeting?

What if the President and Congress made spending decisions based on what they wanted to achieve rather than on individual agencies and programs? That’s the premise of portfolio budgeting. Has its time arrived or is it still . . . A Pipe Dream? Maybe, but it is actually being done by other countries, such asRead… Read more »

A recap of the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Spring Forum: Telehealth on the rise

INPUT Analyst Stephen Moss recaps the National Conference of State Legislatures. Bringing legislators, policy experts, and lobbyists together, the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Spring Forum convened last week in Washington D.C. One panel focused on transforming rural health through technology and aptly illustrated the role technology will play in policy formation and improved healthRead… Read more »