HP at Meritalk’s Innovation Nation Federal IT Event!
I catch up with Liz Vogel from HP to discuss some of the current trends around cloud computing.
Posts Tagged: technology
Gov 2.0 Roundup (March 12 Edition)
The State Department visualizes data, the FBI has an app for that, the First Lady offers prizes to get kids moving, and the Department of Homeland Security sniffs out a unique mobile application, all in this week’s version of the Rock Creek Roundup. –Earlier this week, the State Department, in conjunction with the University ofRead… Read more »
there are no new ideas
Having just joined govloop this past week, I have been thinking about what I would share here. Today, after a meeting with Bowen Moran (@bxmx) and my colleague Devin Serink (@dserink), I have a bit more direction. As a short introduction I am a consultant working with the City of Edmonton. I used to workRead… Read more »
Fighting Internet-based Capabilities: Irresponsible and Ineffective
It’s the latest buzz, the Department of Defense (DoD) announcement that it had finally issued policy on Internet Based Capabilities early afternoon on February 26, 2010. I’m excited to see it finally arrive, but in some sense it’s a surprise left cold and waiting like a ragged banana peel discarded last fall and finally uncoveredRead… Read more »
State of the Union For Technology this Morning in Washington
Aneesh Chopra, White House CTO, gave the keynote this morning. While the event was not captured on video, I did bring my FlipCam, got some b-roll, and talked to Adobe’s Rob Pinkerton (the main sponsor) about Aneesh’s remarks. Check it out here.
But we’re Facebook Friends, don’t You Trust Me?
I found this great little article though a Linkedin group I belong to on the decline of trust across news and information sources, including social media. Right off the bat as I read, “The Social Impact of Friendships and Lies” I thought to myself: is trust in social media breaking down, or are we gettingRead… Read more »
The Death of SDLC
The basic methodology used to implement many systems today still follows the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which was developed to aide technical development of computer code. Organizations today recognize that SDLC does not adequately address the organizational and human performance challenges that are critical to ensuring IT success. It is time to move beyondRead… Read more »
Congress Goes Wireless
By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek December 16, 2009 04:33 PM The House of Representatives is finally about to get with the times and will soon install a Wi-Fi network, it announced late last week. The roll-out will take place over as long as three years, according to a statement of work posted on the WebRead… Read more »
Public Diplomacy via Innovative Social Engagement
Since I left the National Defense Unversity, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do next. In between, I did some writing, speaking, and teaching, but now I’m moving to something more permanent. It’s leaked that I’m joining Microsoft’s U.S. Public Sector division as Director of Innovative Social Engagement. I thought I’dRead… Read more »
Are you a local government web geek? Software developer?
The other week I put out a query on the Sunlight Labs e-mail list for software developers active with (mostly) U.S. national level online transparency and open government effort and asked if there was a need for a similar e-list for those focused locally. The answer was a resounding yes. So here it is: LocalLabsRead… Read more »