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Weekly Round-up: January 13, 2012

Gadi Ben-Yehuda Mobile: A Moving Target. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel laid out a “Roadmap for Federal Mobility.” Included in the initiative is an ideation platform though which citizens can join the discussion on formulating the federal mobility strategy. Grading the Prognosticators. Early in the year, experts likeRead… Read more »

2011 in Cybersecurity

2011 was a watershed year for cybersecurity, but it was evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Political hacking, industrial skullduggery, drones gone wild, and mobile malware all made 2011 a year, to borrow CrucialPoint amigo Matt Devost‘s phrase (since I’m already borrowing his image for the post graphic, why not?), to live cyberdangerously. The Rise of theRead… Read more »

Used to be a public servant, took an arrow to the knee

Don’t worry if you don’t immediately recognize the verbiage, “taking an arrow to the knee” is an internet meme popularized by the action/role-playing video game Skyrim. In Skyrim … … the town guard non-player characters (NPCs) have several stock lines they repeat when the player walks near them, including a bewildered statement about “curved swords”,Read… Read more »

5 Ways to Disengage your Workforce

I came across an interesting post on headshift by Anne Bartlett-Bragg. 5 Ways to Disengage your Workforce. It struck me as being interesting post. Partly as I have long been a fan of the the antithesis lens. Have you ever noticed that HR types start getting all warm an fuzzy when the prospect of anRead… Read more »

Coders encounter the great outdoors

Before a line of code was written, a wireframe was sketched, or a GitHub repo was created, the first Friday at Code for America began with us away from our computers and traveling out of San Francisco to the Marin Headlands. With the help of our park guides and facilitators, we explored the park andRead… Read more »

California IT project falls behind

California’s most recent government technology effort is running into some hurdles. The Financial Information System for California (FISCal), was supposed to streamline IT costs and staffing but seems to be hitting snags for exactly those reasons. So far, the project has cost over $60 million with final costs stretching into over a billion over theRead… Read more »

A Mobile Roadmap For The Federal Government

The U.S. Chief Information Officer, Steven VanRoekel, announced the creation of a federal government-wide mobile strategy at the Consumer Electronics Show yesterday. The strategy, scheduled for release in March, is intended to help agencies take advantage of each other’s efforts to use mobile technology. To help with the planning effort, VanRoekel has launched a user-friendly(!)Read… Read more »

“Lean, Mean, Learning Machines” – The New Age of Training

Michelle Rosenbloom with the 3Leaf Group is a marketing professional. Now, what she is marketing is the Netflix(TM) of training. The wave of the future. She has been involved in creating a “lean, mean, learning machine.” But there is more to it than marketing when it comes to a savvy training professional or manager whoRead… Read more »