This article was previously published on the Tri Tuns blog. The 787 SHOWS US THAT NEW TECHNOLOGY BRINGS NEW RISKS REPORTED The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has been hailed as a revolutionary advance in technology that will provide the greatest advance in air travel since the Concorde. The Dreamliner uses new materials and technology and promisesRead… Read more »
So as you might already know I’ve enrolled for State Duma elections 2012 in Russia and going to represent interests of “Fair Russia” party. This post is about the strategy I’ve put down the election campaign that is mainly based on working with social media marketing that is actively used by different politicians. I’ve decidedRead… Read more »
Governments (local, State, Federal, International) need more agility. This is especially true in the domain of Information Technology. Information technology is one of the fastest moving industries, but the government is slow at adopting and procuring new technology, including the technology that would make it more agile and adaptive. There are things we can doRead… Read more »
Http://LeonardSipes.Com I returned from the Blog World-New Media conference in Los Angeles last night (http://www.blogworld.com/ ) and it’s easy to say that it’s the best social media conference I’ve attended (third time for me). Four-thousand participants from over 100 countries filled the room with massive energy and creativity. You can’t go to Blog World withoutRead… Read more »
They used to say “content is king.” Kings, like anything, have value because they are rare. Is content rare? With hundreds of millions of users on Facebook and Twitter and tens of millions of blogs, content is everywhere. Sure, the quality varies, but content is anything but scarse. Most is ephemeral, easily forgotten, and replaced.Read… Read more »
I was with a friend who sang the chorus of “I don’t do technology” more times than I had verses. He wistfully wondered where all the dialing-for-dollars sales jobs have gone. I disrecall he liked them much, either. Coincidence? James Patterson gets much better rewards from moveable type than Johannes Gutenberg ever did. It’s notRead… Read more »
Last week I was in Ottawa giving a talk at the Department of Foreign Affairs talking about how technology, new media and open innovation will impact the department’s it work internally, across Ottawa and around the world. While there is lots to share, here are three ideas I’ve been stewing on: Keep more citizens safeRead… Read more »
Hadoop World 2011 is upon us. Once again the community, with the consistent/polite/leading/persistent coordination of Cloudera, has built a great agenda with the right speakers and great attendees for what is now the “must attend” Big Data event. For those who are attending, I can’t wait to see you there. We are going to beRead… Read more »
What is part of my job: Advising 9 Departments and untold sub sections on social mediaWriting guidance on social media and digital tech in our org Training 9 Departments and untold sub sections Keeping up with new tools and utilities I can help people use that are appropriate in their job ‘Being’ the Council feedRead… Read more »
Those of us who like to think about city-scale innovation also like to think that it is somehow going to lead us away from our carbon-abusing ways towards a new world of sustainability. Well I’ve got some bad news: it’s not. Sorry to say it. Civic innovation and “smart city” technology is going to doRead… Read more »