Dan Smith, Govplace Director of Professional Services, will be presenting “Practical Techniques for Securing your Cloud Environment” at the 1105 Government Information Group Security Conference on Thursday, November 12 at the Ronald Reagan Building in DC. With all of the talk about the potential of cloud computing it is good to get some insight intoRead… Read more »
You certainly can’t escape Twitter or Facebook these days — they always seem to be in the news, but have you seen them mentioned in job postings? Evidently this was the case in September if you were applying for Best Buy’s Senior Manager in emerging media marketing. Listed as one of the job’s “preferred requirements”Read… Read more »
Citizen’s Tools has a great post about making the case for 2.0 projects. Having just returned from the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco where the subject of defining and measuring ROI was all around, this post became more relevant to me. But, regardless of which of the E 2.0, Web 2.0 or Gov 2.0Read… Read more »
Not much more than I can say http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlrrAWCTRg
Here in the UK, the first sighting in public has emerged of the Government’s new overarching ‘UK Public Sector ICT Strategy’ due to be published next month. The strategy has been in development over the last year by the UK Government’s CIO Council (a central co-ordinating body modelled on the Federal CIO Council) and plansRead… Read more »
In a book by Rob Cross and Robert Thomas entitled “Driving Results Through Social Networks”, I thought the following challenge epitomizes what the government must address regarding social networking software. Work and innovation are inherently collaborative endeavors, but as the need for collaboration increases, the demands of people’s time rises. The answer is not moreRead… Read more »
Happy Tuesday! The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered two agency attorneys to remove a YouTube video they produced that criticizes climate change legislation backed by the Obama administration. Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, who are married and live in San Francisco, received clearance from EPA to post the video, but were told they could mentionRead… Read more »
VA Finds It on Craigslist The Department of Veterans Affairs has done what many people do when looking for just the right product or service—it went to Craigslist. Or rather, to the man who created it. VA announced this week that Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has agreed to serve on a blue-ribbon panel charged withRead… Read more »
At the National Homeland Defense Foundation Symposium (today 9 Nov) Gen Ed Eberhart, USAF (Ret–former Commander of USNORTHCOM) asks Ms Zainab Al-Suwaji, Executive Director of the American Islamic Conference what is the impression of the Islamic community of the shootings at Ft Hood. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H7tBiQTmjM
Here is just one of many videos of Ms Zainab Al-Suwaij, Executive Director of the American Islamic Congress talks about Islamic impressions of everything from the Ft Hood shootings to the impressions of the new administration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXXd2gdRhKw