I was recently treated to a demonstration of a mission-focused IT solution that made me proud of what technologists at FBI can do. What I saw was a best in class integration of search, discovery and analysis tools known as DIVS (Data Integration and Visualization System). DIVS includes a framework that allows multiple tools, COTSRead… Read more »
Watching the budget battle play out these past few weeks (perhaps months and years) between Republicans and Democrats can only leave one feeling deep frustration and a sense that things will never truly change. Those emotions are not only accurate they are the clue to the true reason why deficits are soaring and budgets areRead… Read more »
In the latest 2011 budget agreement, President Obama agreed to cut over $8 billion in foreign aid and assistance from the State Department and foreign operations budget. The money would have provided assistance in alleviating hunger, improving health and nutrition, and enhancing economic development in the poorest countries around the world. These measures have longRead… Read more »
Do you want to know how you can change your office culture in a single day? Blow it up That’s right, blow it up. Have everyone come in jeans and t-shirts and break out the power tools and tear the walls down. Why you never would Your gut reaction tells you that you can’t. YouRead… Read more »
Last year, I started a group exclusively for local govvies on Huddle called LocalGovWebStars with some help from a good local gov buddy of mine, Ken Eastwood (Assistant Director at Barnsley MBC and founder of publicsectornomads.com) to talk about website redesign projects in local gov. The group resulted in some very interesting discussions and tips.Read… Read more »
The United Nations telecommunications agency is offering $10,000 for the most innovative mobile phone application about climate change. Original post
Entrepreneur Magazine recently published a list of the best MBA programs for green business. Based on their assessment, some programs are clearly more substantive than others, but all seem to have a reasonable amount to offer the potential student interested in green business. Sixteen schools made the list, which includes some names you would expectRead… Read more »
The Austrlaian Computer Society is running an ACS Business Skills On-Line Pilot Program. I was selected as one of the initial students. The pilot is from mid April to the end of July 2011 and I have to do at least 3 courses (there are 80 to choose from). These are short one to fourRead… Read more »
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law that requires the state to use 33% renewable energy by the end of 2020. Calling for a substantial shift away from coal and natural gas, the Governor supports creating jobs through the use of new technology and renewable energy sources. Prior to this bill, the stateRead… Read more »
Steph Gray @lesteph recently highlighted an article by Gerry McGovern on the The accidental website visitor. Gerry talks about how a website significantly improved its satisfaction levels once it was attracting the right, but smaller audience. This made me think about who is the ‘right kind’ of website visitor? Are they one of us? DoRead… Read more »