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DAUNTING CHALLENGES: Cultural Change | Paradigm Shifts

Recently on Twitter, a IT senior leader mentioned how daunting making change is today in any global enterprise. He invited me to share my views on leading cultural change and paradigm shifts based on the changes in progress in Enterprise Computing. It was impossible to respond in 140 characters :-), but I wrote a fewRead… Read more »

Twitter and government

Following on from yesterday’s post about the guide to using Twitter I have written, I thought it might be useful to share the slides from the talk I gave to the Online Information conference in London. Twitter and government View more presentations from davebriggs.

Apps for Innovation – Two More Weeks Til Deadline

The Consumer Electronics Association’s “Apps for Innovation” contest for software application developers closes in two weeks, on Monday, December 14. The grand-prize winner will receive $10,000 and a free trip to the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), January 7-10, 2010, in Las Vegas. A second-place winner will receive $5,000, and a third-place winner will receiveRead… Read more »

Southern Africa: Story Behind the Eyes

I’m reposting this story in honor of World AIDs Day today. Growing up as a kid in Texas, I remember trick-or-treating for UNICEF, an organization that helps at -risk children in developing countries. We collected donations instead of candy. All that seems so long ago. UNICEF never went away. At-risk children never went away. PerhapsRead… Read more »

Free guide on Twitter for government

I’ve put together a handy quick-start guide to Twitter for people who work in and around government. I have had loads of requests for this, from people who can see that Twitter is taking off in a big way, but who also just can’t quite make their way around the service enough to make theRead… Read more »

Gartner Identifies top 10 Issues

Kinda Dated (Oct 20, 2009), that is the disadvantage of receiving “monthly” newsletters, but I believe is still very relevant. Gartner Press Release Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 Analysts Examine Latest Industry Trends During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 18-22, in Orlando ORLANDO, Fla., October 20, 2009 — ? Gartner, Inc. analysts todayRead… Read more »

How-To: Edit USA.gov, Google.com, and even WhiteHouse.gov

Yes, that’s right folks…you too can edit these websites right now, live, and change the page however you see fit! Has the Government wikied out? Wait, you don’t see what I see (click the image to the right) I actually DID edit the WhiteHouse.gov site. No, I didn’t hack it either. I used a simple,Read… Read more »