Yearly Archives: 2011

Rethinking Reusability

by Patrick Shane Gallagher, Ph.D. (ADL) Shane is the Senior Advisor for Instructional Technology to ADL. He is also a senior consultant to the NSF Supporting NSF research programs as an advisor in education and interoperability issues concerning Cyberlearning, Innovations in Education and Race to the Top. Dr. Gallagher’s prior research included assessing SCORM forRead… Read more »

Green Building at SAP Labs in Palo Alto

Low voltage lighting, software that tracks and compiles lighting needs over time, energy efficient servers, electric vehicle charging stations, the list goes on and on. Watch this video and you’ll get a great tour of SAP labs in Palo Alto, CA. Share this article! Original post

Your Social Business Maturity Level

I was looking at my RSS feeds earlier and came across an excellent post by Jeremiah Owyang – The Web Strategist. The post is called Spend wisely – finally an investment roadmap for social business buyers. The main thing I loved about the post was this one side maturity assessment, which could be used inRead… Read more »

How I Roll: Ideation

I’d like to peel back the curtain a bit on how I do about producing ideas. As I tend to be a creature of habit, I tend to participate in certain rituals that result in new projects, new writing or new directions for existing efforts. I make the act of Ideation a pretty enjoyable habitRead… Read more »

Computer winning on Jeopardy!!

Last nights game featured IBM’s “Watson” computer holding its own. I was floored by Watson answering complex questions not written in natural English. Many of the questions use words with a double meaning. So far we are safe. Our brains are less than 1/2 the volume of a single server, run quieter and require lessRead… Read more »

Northrop Grumman CEO on Strengthening the Defense Industrial Base http://ow.ly/3WJSF

According to Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush, the key to maintaining the U.S. defense industrial base, in a time of unparalleled threats and domestic economic challenges, lies in choosing key capabilities to support, and in easing export controls for defense companies. Over 600 attendees gathered at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia, on Friday, Feb.Read… Read more »

Health 2.0 Dev Challenge Wrap-Up

Last Saturday, the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge code-a-thon took place at Georgetown University. I should state up front that I didn’t go to code, participate in any particular project, or to specifically push data related to my work. My goals were to observe, learn about how government health data can and is being used byRead… Read more »

What Government Public Affairs Can Learn From Donald Trump

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — Donald Trump is a master of public branding and marketing for himself and his eponymous business interests. While government doesn’t usually consider itself in the business of “marketing” itself, in reality, the Open Government movement is to some degree about publicizing data and information in order to get it toRead… Read more »

How can technology support public sector collaboration?

Last week’s webinar went fairly well, I’d like to think. You can judge for yourself by watching it below – it’s split up into two parts, probably because I talk too much. To be able to read the slides it’s probably best to watch in full screen mode. Lots of people asked questions and IRead… Read more »