Thursday January 19, 2012 Carahsoft and Cloudera are presenting a webinar of high interest to professionals in the federal IT domain. Our own Bob Gourley is introducing the webinar with a review of key use cases in the federal space. The following is from their announcement site: Join us as we describe big data technologiesRead… Read more »
Healthcare is a major budget item for government at all levels.There are now many high quality, free and open source Health IT systems that community hospitals and clinics should consider using as an alternative to more expensive commercial systems. This could save state & local governments ‘big’ bucks. Check out the most popular ‘open source’Read… Read more »
“Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.” – Clay Shirky at TED Cannes in June 2010 This is one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite people in the business, Clay Shirky. I particularly like it because it illustrates the period many organizationsRead… Read more »
The EIA has put together a graphic depicting net power flows in the US (not including HI and AK). The overriding theme of their data is that electricity flows south in the US. The EIA says that the largest energy flows often come from areas with predictably over-sized generation capacity. The Northwest’s generation capacity isRead… Read more »
Margaret E. Knight, Patent Model of Machine for Making Paper Bags, 1879, U.S. Patent No. 220925, wood, brass, paper and paint, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center The current exhibition, The Great American Hall of Wonders celebrates the 19th-century American spirit of ingenuity through the examination of art, science, andRead… Read more »
We are in the process of transitioning from the Industrial Age of the past century into the Information Age of the 21st century. Many acknowledge this but don’t really grasp what it means. We are moving from the ‘closed’ protective systems that worked well in the Industrial Age to the new, more effective ‘open’ systemsRead… Read more »
Happy New Year! The purpose of education has changed. It’s past time to change the methods and results. For Socrates, a scroll could be read twenty times before crumbling. Read it each time to twenty students and you have squared the impact of the technology. Efficient. It was really expensive to read alone in theRead… Read more »
As the Digital Era progresses, technological capabilities continue to outstrip our willingness and ability to address the opportunities and challenges they present. In this post I offer 12 hopes for 2012 that are rooted in the psychological challenges we face and are built on our willingness – both individually and collectively – to tackle themRead… Read more »
By Jennifer Kaplan, GovDelivery This blog post is a response to a recent article in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune on social media in government. It was a great article, but I felt compelled to respond! ************ I work for a company that does digital communication management (email/text/rss/social media) exclusively for the public sector. It’sRead… Read more »
We will be bringing the blog back to life this year. I know many of you contacted me earlier to present your ideas on this platform and now really is the time. Send me a note and I would be glad to have you post as often as you have great content. Send me aRead… Read more »
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