After this week’s exciting trip to Scotland, I’m venturing slightly less far north a couple of weeks afterwards, to Lancaster. It’s for the ‘Digital networking and community safety partnerships conference’, taking place at the town hall in Lancaster on 16th February. It’s a joint LGID and NPIA event, and features really interesting discussions about howRead… Read more »
Here are some upcoming accessibility events. CSUN – The 26th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference – March 14-19, 2011 in San Diego, CA 2011 Web and New Media Conference– the annual Government Web Managers Conference – March 17 and 18, 2011 in Washington, DC Note that the CSUN early bird discount rateRead… Read more »
The good people at Tesla know how to make an impression. Their display at the Detroit Auto Show got a lot of attention, and the car wasn’t even complete. Tesla decided to show off its aluminum-frame Model S for the Detroit crowd, and in doing so showcased the various features that make this EV goRead… Read more »
Research Cloud tops CIO agenda (01/21/2011) – Gartner survey finds cloud computing the top technology priority for CIOs in 2011. 43% of respondents expect to migrate to cloud-based IT platforms within the next two years. http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1526414 Internet as a platform for collective action (01/18/2011) – PEW report finds internet users more likely to be activeRead… Read more »
I’m looking forward to my quick tour of Scotland this week, visiting Edinburgh tomorrow, to deliver a seminar on social media strategy for public services; and then Aberdeen to talk to the Scottish Knowledge Management Network about how technology makes sharing and storing knowledge a wonderful thing. Both these events are in partnership with theRead… Read more »
“Talk is cheap” and it doesn’t require planning or preparation or understanding. No wonder there is so much of it. Listening is effective for changing someone’s thinking, and is often necessary…but not sufficient. When it’s your turn to lead the conversation, what can you do that gives you a better value for your limited time?Read… Read more »
Garry Przyklenk writes: “What is one of the biggest problems in online marketing? Bryan Eisenberg puts it best: it’s our critically high demand for skilled people. Why? One of the root causes is the supply and demand of data. As data becomes an exceedingly cheap commodity to online marketing professionals, the sheer supply of dataRead… Read more »
Intel, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Facebook are among the technology companies joining a new initiative from President Barack Obama to encourage entrepreneurship. The companies are part of a multi-sector pledge to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to high-growth industries of clean energy, medicine, advanced manufacturing, information technology and other fields. Dubbed the StartUP America Partnership,Read… Read more »
The Australian Parliament has invited submissions for an Inquiry into the role and potential of the National Broadband Network by 5 February 2011. Here is the second draft of a submission for the enquiry. In the previous draft I addressed two issues: the environmental costs and benefits of the NBN and the role of electronicRead… Read more »
On Sunday, Tom Shoop of GovExec’s Fedblog reported that President Obama’s Chief Performance Officer, Jeffrey Zients, will lead the government reorganization effort announced during last week’s State of the Union address. I don’t know about you, but I was ecstatic to see Civil Service reform get a high-profile nod during the address. (Full disclosure: IRead… Read more »