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Things I would do if put on furlough

I would enjoy having a lot of unexpected time to myself. I would like to be a couch-potato and catch up on my sleep. I would also watch all of those movies that I have wanted to see but was too busy. I would surf the internet while guzzling copious quantities of bold flavor, highRead… Read more »

Call For Volunteers for Better Government IT Working Group – Due April 22

On December 9, 2010 the U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra released a “25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management.” Many of the points in this plan are consistent with recommendations previously made by ACT-IAC. One of these recommendations, and a major priority in the Administration’s plan, is to improve communications betweenRead… Read more »

Call For Volunteers for Better Government IT Working Group – Due April 22

On December 9, 2010 the U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra released a “25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management.” Many of the points in this plan are consistent with recommendations previously made by ACT-IAC. One of these recommendations, and a major priority in the Administration’s plan, is to improve communications betweenRead… Read more »

Gilligan’s Island-Keep Government Open-A Three hour Tour

After averting a government shutdown one hour before the deadline, Open Government has more of a platform to thrive and become a business solution to Government like never before. Using our new parody, and following the theme of Gilligan’s Island, after nearly averting a “ship wreck”, (Government shutdown), Open Government has potentially become the newRead… Read more »

New York Public Meetings Now More Open

Change to the Law As of Friday (April 1, 2011), the following is now part of the Open Meetings Law [Public Officers Law, Article 7, Section 103, subdivision (d)]: “1. Any meeting of a public body that is open to the public shall be open to being photographed, broadcast, webcast, or otherwise recorded and/or transmittedRead… Read more »

JFDI & the fear of failure

I remember still the smell of Bunsen burners, the noise, the rickety stands holding glass vials above the flames, and the worn, scarred initialled benches we all worked on in our Science lab. It was in science that I learnt something I didn’t know I didn’t know. I learnt to quantify and focus on theRead… Read more »

It’s all gone a little bit quiet

Twitter is quite broken. It begs an interesting question, really. What on earth did we all do before it came along? People are messaging me and I can’t see the messages. I worry it makes me seem rude. I am missing all the retweets of all the interesting stuff that I would normally retweet onRead… Read more »

Don’t Confuse the Genre for the Medium

Neal Ungerleider wrote a a funny piece on Fast Company about the State Department’s new Tumblr blog this morning, including a few suggestions on how the State Department could be more Tumblry by jumping on some of Tumblr’s most popular trends. It’s a great piece of writing, and it also says exactly what I wasRead… Read more »

“Driving SharePoint Adoption”

My thanks to Portal Solutions CEO Daniel Cohen-Dumani and Marketing Director Joan Muschamp for today’s excellent “Collaboration TechTalk” discussion on this topic. If you missed the live show, you can catch the BlogTalkRadio recording on the web at this link. Key points during the program included the difference between data and useful information, the utilityRead… Read more »