I made the point at the Govloop conference on last Wednesday that unlike the model of Facebook that people have one singular identity online I, as other social scientists, predicate on the idea that individuals have lives in which we have a variety of identities. By identity I mean the way that each person understandingsRead… Read more »
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Rediscovering Information Management Methodology
About a century ago –no I’m not that old—companies were using advance information management tools called paper, file folders and filing cabinets. Much of the daily course of business was concern with moving physical parts and products. The movement and storage of information was also a physical effort; paper and files were routed throughout theRead… Read more »
The State of Open Data 2011
What is the state of the open data movement? Yesterday, during my opening keynote at the Open Government Data Camp (held this year in Warsaw, Poland) I sought to follow up on my talk from last year’s conference. Here’s my take of where we are today (I’ll post/link to a video of the talk asRead… Read more »
What’s Next for Your Career
A post by Patra Frame, ClearedJobs.Net’s HR Specialist Are you trying to figure out your next career step? Many folks with higher level clearances just move into another job that requires the clearance because it’s easy. Those with lower-level clearances face more difficulties when they discover it does not automatically get them many opportunities. ButRead… Read more »
Weekly Round-up – October 21, 2011
Gadi Ben-Yehuda First the bad news. QR Codes are now being infected. This is all very Snow Crash. Next, some good news. Fierce Government is reporting that government employee’s use of social media is growing. Key take-away: “Thirty-seven percent of federal workers said they are permitted to use social media as representatives of their agency.Read… Read more »
Innovation is tricky, literally …
I had the opportunity this week to spend a bit of time with Bill Eggers. Bill is the Global Director of Deloitte’s Public Sector practice, is the author of numerous books including If we can put a man on the moon: Getting big things done in government, and is (most importantly) a friend. Bill constantlyRead… Read more »
Blog Talk Radio with @thedodgeretort and @bobgourley
John Dodge (@thedodgeretort) and Bob Gourley (@bobgourley) review the Enterprise CIO Forum’s (@ECIOForum) top 10 Cloud Security Tweets of the week in the following podcast. Tweets selected by John included: zdnet: Will cloud security ever be sufficient? http://t.co/vLJjhFAY cloudsa: (ISC)² and The Cloud Security Alliance Expand Cloud Security Offerings to their Memberships… http://t.co/c80DntRK chrispirillo: HowRead… Read more »
Bridging the Gap between Public Officials and the Public
This 2011 report by Tina Nabatchi and Cynthia Farrar for the Deliberative Democracy Consortium explores what elected officials know and think about public deliberation, as well as what they need to know to assess the potential value of public deliberation as a governance tool. Data from interviews with twenty-four state legislators and senior staff forRead… Read more »
Evolving Approaches to Cyber Threats
Bob Gourley and HP’s Andrzej Kawalec, CTO of Enterprise Security continued to discuss emerging security issues at the HP Protect 2011 conference on Monday, September 12, 2011, exploring problems with traditional approaches to enterprise security. Andrzej began by defining the customary enterprise security approach. We’ve been taking a very reactive stance to cybersecurity, focusing onRead… Read more »
Calling all Mozilla Contributors Past & Present
As some friends know, I’ve been working with Mozilla, helping them design an engagement audit, something to enable them assess how effective they are at engaging, empowering and maximizing the leverage of their community. This work has a number of aspects, much of which builds on ideas I’ve blogged about here and spoken about inRead… Read more »