Kinda Dated (Oct 20, 2009), that is the disadvantage of receiving “monthly” newsletters, but I believe is still very relevant. Gartner Press Release Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 Analysts Examine Latest Industry Trends During Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 18-22, in Orlando ORLANDO, Fla., October 20, 2009 — ? Gartner, Inc. analysts todayRead… Read more »
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Code for America hopes to give dot-gov some caché
Coming out of last week’s Web 2.0 Expo in New York City, the industry buzz was focused on the usual – cloud computing, social networking, and what to do with the latest Google innovation. But one catchy hook caught the ears of a few reporters: dot-gov is the new dot-com. One project announced during theRead… Read more »
Open Call For Proposals for Gov 2.0 Expo – Deadline Approaching
I wanted to make everyone in the GovLoop community aware that there is currently an open call for proposals for the O’Reilly Media / TechWeb – produced Gov 2.0 Expo, to be held in Washington DC in May. The success of the Expo Showcase and Summit in Sepember have made me confident that the ExpoRead… Read more »
Spires Takes Control as CIO at DHS
www.fedinsider.com Editor: Tom Temin How do you get your arms around 79 IT projects, each of which is large enough to have its own Exhibit 300 justification? For Richard Spires, the new CIO at the Homeland Security Department, you do it one project at a time. It matters, because DHS has something of a reputationRead… Read more »
Wiktionary
The government is awash with acronyms. New acronyms are created daily. Acronyms create a barrier to understanding if they cannot be easily resolved, where easy = universal and universal = URL. There are many online dictionaries with entries that are found in Web searches. However, these return results only in highly formatted, not-well-formed HTML thatRead… Read more »
Veteran’s Day
A friend wished me a “Happy Veteran’s Day” at 1201 this morning. He was the first to send such a wish in my direction this year. A fellow veteran, I replied “Happy Veteran’s Day” back, but somehow the word “Happy” just doesn’t feel like it belongs. Maybe it’s the rain and clouds this morning. MaybeRead… Read more »
The New UK Government IT Strategy – The First Glimpse
Here in the UK, the first sighting in public has emerged of the Government’s new overarching ‘UK Public Sector ICT Strategy’ due to be published next month. The strategy has been in development over the last year by the UK Government’s CIO Council (a central co-ordinating body modelled on the Federal CIO Council) and plansRead… Read more »
This is the second of a two-part post about Software as a Service (SaaS) for performance management. In the first part I provided an introduction to SaaS, defined what it is and touched on some of its applications to performance management. In this second part I’ll detail the various benefits of SaaS including but notRead… Read more »
Software as a Service (SaaS) for Performance Management – Part 1
This is the first of a two-part post about Software as a Service (SaaS) for performance management. In the first part I’ll provide an introduction to SaaS, define what it is and touch on some of its applications to performance management. In the second part I’ll detail the various benefits of SaaS including but notRead… Read more »
Climate change and a Gov 2.0 event in Toronto
I’ve been following the activity around climate change, sustainability, and cleantech especially closely, in recent weeks. Part of it is due to some specific sustainability and cleantech related events I’ve been involved in, including the GreenXchange and the Austin Clean Energy Venture Summit. Also, it’s because I’m thrilled at the pace with which social media,Read… Read more »