John Mertens and I wound up on a collision course in San Francisco’s Chinatown last Saturday. Without knowing it, both of us were headed to the neighborhood to take a photo of the Banksy near Columbus and Broadway for our project, www.artmapper.com — our pilot test to build a mobile community of curators for aRead… Read more »
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Data Wizards Know Hadoop is Powerful: But they want more automation
Hadoop and the many capabilities associated with it (including Hive, Pig, HBase, Zookeeper, Flume, Sqoop, Hue, Oozie and Whirr) is really the rage. Enterprises with big data challenges, researchers with massive data sets and organizations seeking to make sense over seemingly unbounded data are learning how to use those many related technologies to solve problemsRead… Read more »
21 June 2011 HP Government Software Summit
On Tuesday 21 June 2011 I was honored to be given the role of moderator for an all day HP Government Software Summit, held at the Newseum in Washington DC. The purpose of the event was to focus on the information needs of government IT professionals, especially those dealing with enterprise IT issues. That isRead… Read more »
What I’ve been reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. 2011 London Social Business Summit – Great content from this event. Introducing South West LocalGovCamp #swlocalgc « Carl’s Notepad – This should be a good one! ’100 million comments a year’ – mutual support and advice in a shrinking state – How government could beRead… Read more »
Open Government and Citizen Service 2.0
Our next webinar for Open Government Cloud Computing is called ‘Building a City in the Clouds‘, referring to an analysis of how it can be applied at the Municipal level. This will include best practice reviews of cities like New York, Toronto and Edmonton, and how they are re-inventing their citizen service capabilities through OpenRead… Read more »
Does Customer Service Matter for Government? 5 Examples for Change
The Customer Service series is supported by RightNow Technologies. To learn more on how to use cloud technology to improve customer service, visit the RightNow resource center today. Check out the GovLoop/RightNow Customer Service Hub to get smart on how to be awesome at customer service —————————This is post 1 of the new “Customer Service”Read… Read more »
Experience in Project Management
Jose sent me a great email with some important questions about gaining experience in project management, and education: Hi Josh! I’m a huge follower of yours and really enjoy your tips. I’m sure you get this often, but I have been struggling with what the next step is. I am continuously learning, but feel IRead… Read more »
Seven Management Imperatives: Imperative Two: Leverage Hyperconnectivity
From the Pony Express in 1860 to today’s digital revolution, the scope of our connectivity has increased in every dimension. Our connections are faster, farther-flung, and more complete and immersive than ever before. In the last decade, however, we have crossed a significant threshold, from connectivity into hyperconnectivity. As an example, most urban Americans areRead… Read more »
More than usually interesting elsewhere – 23 June 2011
The publication of this post was delayed by the FBI. Not a sentence I ever thought to find myself writing, but these posts are generated from Pinboard bookmarks and the Pinboard server was accidentally impounded by the FBI when they were apparently looking for something else. The cloud is a curious place, where sometimes itRead… Read more »
Hybrid IT Service Delivery
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Today’s users expect IT services and response to be immediate, interactive, connected and fluid. Delivering technology-enabled services is more important than ever and the most successful enterprises don’t just respond to this, they embrace it. Cloud computing promises the agility enterprises need. It helps deliverRead… Read more »