How to evaluate your digital, interactive marketing partner, for local and regional businesses – particularly in the Washington DC and Northern Virginia marketing and advertising area. We’ll put it out there – as you evaluate prospective partners like KME Internet Marketing to help with web marketing initiatives, gaining exposure for your business and driving newRead… Read more »
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The Virtual Real Estate Market
Many people might be surprised to find out there is a virtual real estate market and have had a hard time understanding how someone could pay money for something that you can’t physically touch like virtual land. Before visiting virtual worlds myself, I would not have believed people would pay money for something like that.Read… Read more »
January Cyber War and Cyber Conflict Link Roundup
By Jose Nazario Wow, what a month. Two big stories to note: USCC is seeking to grow over 5x to 4900 people, and the NYTimes (and WSJ it seems) have been hacked, purportedly by the Chinese over their China coverage. In other news, a new discovery of the ‘Red October’ campaign filled the headlines, althoughRead… Read more »
Getting Butts in the Seats – Conference Style, Plus Your Weekend Reads
Welcome to GovLoop Insights Issue of the Week with Chris Dorobek where each week, our goal is to find an issue — a person — an idea — then helped define the past 7-days and we work to find an issue that will also will have an impact on the days, weeks and months ahead.Read… Read more »
By 2016, 70 percent of leading BI vendors will have incorporated natural-language and spoken-word capabilities.
By BobGourley Gartner projects that by 2016, 70 percent of leading BI vendors will have incorporated natural-language and spoken-word capabilities. This is consistent with things I have been learning from leaders in this space like Thetus, Cloudera and Datameer. Here is more from their 24 January 2013 release on the topic: By 2016, 70 percentRead… Read more »
02.01.13 Your Morning Buzz
Edward Koch, Former Mayor, Dies at 88 ELGL News and Notes Join ELGL: Students (free), individuals ($20), and organizations ($250) Welcome New Members: Kevin Vandenheuvel, OHSU – Emergency Medicine Department, EMS Liaison/Coordinator David Jones, Seton Hall University, International Professional Upcoming Forums: February 6: ELGL Forum with Mark Zusman, Willamette Week Editor March 1: ELGL ConferenceRead… Read more »
Energy Department Announces New SunShot Projects to Harness the Power of Big Data
By BobGourley Editor’s note: The following announcement from the Department of Energy provides context on a potentially very virtuous use of advanced data analysis capabilities to help solve real-world challenges regarding energy costs in the US. Before you get too excited about the potential here, remember to read the details. As you dig deeper intoRead… Read more »
How to Avoid Hidden Costs of the Cloud
Post Highlights Symantec releases report identifying hidden costs of cloud adoption Leadership and training is key to keeping data and information safe in the cloud Rogue cloud implementation and back up and recovery are important strategies to consider Agencies have been looking at cloud computing as a way to reduce waste, increase efficiency and cutRead… Read more »
Surveying the D&D Territory of a City: Lessons from Chicago
This extraordinary post was submitted by NCDD supporting member Janice Thomson. Janice has been working in collaboration with UIC’s Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement to map the D&D terrain in Chicago, an effort which has led to the development of a new Community of Practice for dialogue and deliberation practitioners in the city. NCDDRead… Read more »
Managing Internal Threats
By InfoSec Institute The number of annual security incidents caused by insider threats continues to increase. In The CERT Guide to Insider Threats, Capelli et al writes, “Insider threats are an intriguing and complex problem. Some assert that they are the most significant threat faced by organizations today.” Disgruntled system administrators damage data and systems,Read… Read more »