April, 2012

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CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO: Social Media For Local Gov

CIO Musings

'CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO. A blog about things that interest me as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) working for a local government. Primarily focused on technology, leadership and some of my recreational pursuits. Follow me on twitter at @BarryCondrey Enjoy! Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Social Media For Local Gov. The Top 10 issues to be aware of when using social media in local (or any) government: # 1 Ethics & Acceptable Use.

Media 188
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Don't look now, I'm on DZone : spf13.com

SPF13

'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Don't look now, I'm on DZone. Iâ??m happy to announce that going forward youâ??ll be able to read my articles on DZone as well as spf13.com.

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Exploring crowd business models

Trends in the Living Networks

For me, the most interesting part of my new book Getting Results From Crowds is Chapter 22 on Crowd Business Models (which you can download here ). I knew that after getting the book out a major direction for me would be delving deeper into the wonders of crowd business models. I’m now beginning to do some more exploring, together with lots of other people.

Retail 152
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Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Customer Conversations - How Intuit and Edmodo Innovate using Amazon RDS. By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud.

Social 149
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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Video: IT Value How To Measure The Revenue Of IT

The Accidental Successful CIO

'[link]. We all know that IT provides value to the rest of the company, but how much value? That’s the question that CIOs are always trying to answer. Dr. Jim Anderson tackles this issue by taking a look at what HP’s former CIO Randy Mott did. It turns out that he found a way to solve this problem. Dr. Anderson explains and shows you how you can use Randy’s technique.

Video 113
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Mick's IT Blogs: Customizing the ZTIBiosCheck.wsf file for MDT/SCCM

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

Windows 92

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New personal site powered by GitHub Pages : spf13.com

SPF13

'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. New personal site powered by GitHub Pages. At 10gen we had new headshots taken recently. I think mine came out great.

Google 174
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The MegaTrend of Distributed Attention is driving everything

Trends in the Living Networks

Yesterday I ran Getting Results From Crowds and Crowd Business Models workshops in Sydney, the first in a global series of crowdsourcing workshops. In opening the Crowd Business Models workshop, I ran through some of the driving forces that are shifting business models to crowds. I had quickly drawn up the list the evening before the workshop, with the first coming to mind Distributed Attention.

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Expanding the Cloud – Introducing AWS Marketplace

All Things Distributed

Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS Marketplace, an online store that makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services that run on the AWS Cloud. You can use AWS Marketplace’s 1-Click deployment to quickly launch pre-configured software on your own Amazon EC2 instances and pay only for what you use, by the hour or month.

Cloud 60
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4 Steps CIOs Need To Take To Make Their Process Improvement Projects Successful (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to know how to keep process improvement projects going. Pity the poor CIOs who gets the idea that what his IT department needs to do this year is to implement a process improvement project. It’s not that these types of projects are a bad thing to do, it’s just that all too often they don’t actually work out. Well, that was before we had a chance to talk about what CIOs need to do in order to make this a good use of everyone’s time….

Strategy 100
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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Mick's IT Blogs: Java Runtime Environment Installation Script

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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The CIO’s Leadership Footprint

Future of CIO

“ One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. Modern CIOs have one of the most paradoxical but significant executive roles, as information technology becomes so pervasive, they craft their organization’s architectural blueprint; they shape their business’s digital footprint; they are responsible for their enterprise’s information footprint, they shape the fresh cloud footprint, they also work hard to reduce the data center’s carbon footprint.

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spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website : spf13.com

SPF13

'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website. This post is a bit behind the actual releases, but should be announced here nevertheless.

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Le Crowdsourcing en France: une opportunité de créer le futur

Trends in the Living Networks

Je suis enchanté de faire une présentation à Paris 3 mai avec Boostzone Institute. Dominique Turcq de l’institut et moi avons discuté depuis longtemps de notre intérêt commun qui est le futur du travail et des organisations. Je vais parler du “Crowdsourcing”. Mon nouveau livre Getting Results From Crowds vient de paraître, et en mai-juin je fais des keynote et des ateliers sur le sujet à Sydney, Amsterdam, Cologne, Londres, Bruxelles, New York et San Francisco , entre autres.

Internet 142
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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Meet Nutanix Series - Laura Jordana

Nutanix

This will be the first post in our new series, “Meet Nutanix,” where various employees at Nutanix will be featured. Read on and learn more about life at Nutanix and what various departments here are working on!

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CIOs Should Stop Sending Emails – Now! (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'CIOs need to learn when NOT to use email. Those cloning experiments sure seem to have only been able to create more sheep so far – and that’s not going to help overworked CIOs! It seems as though we have more things to do and less time than ever to get them done. Arguably the most important part of any CIOs job is to communicate with your staff.

Strategy 100
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Mick's IT Blogs: USMT 4.0 PC-to-PC Migration Script

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

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Three-Step IT Investment Strategy

Future of CIO

IT investments are more effective in improving profitability by increasing revenue than by decreasing operating expenses. From the variety of IT industry surveys, the investments companies make in IT increase profitability more than investments in advertising or R&D do. IT investment now is a strategic imperative for a forward-looking business to pursue the growth, but how to do it wisely, what’s your holistic IT investment strategy?

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Don't look now, I'm on DZone

SPF13

I’m happy to announce that going forward you’ll be able to read my articles on DZone as well as spf13.com. DZone has invited me to join their MVB program. They describe their program as: DZone’s Most Valuable Blogger program brings together a group of highly talented bloggers, authors, and technologists actively writing about topics of interest to the developer community.

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Future of Crowdsourcing workshop at Crowdsourcing Summit in Cologne

Trends in the Living Networks

On April 28, immediately after my keynote at TheNextWeb conference in Amsterdam, I will travel to Cologne to run a workshop on the Future of Crowdsourcing. Unfortunately I will miss what looks like an excellent Crowdsourcing Summit on April 27 as I will be speaking in Amsterdam that day. I’ve made a short video to introduce some of what we’ll be covering in the Future of Crowdsourcing workshop.

Travel 142
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An Apple Revolution in Enterprise Computing

Nutanix

The name of the game is to push content and computing as close to the user as possible. WAN is public cloud’s biggest enemy.

WAN 20
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Why Throwing Leaving Employees Under The Bus Is A Bad Idea (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Under the bus is no place for your former employees to be. There you are, a CIO trying to run an efficient IT department. All of sudden — wham! One of your key IT employees comes and tells you that he or she is leaving. Time to go back the bus up because you’ve got another soon-to-be-former employee who deserves to be thrown under it. Or maybe not.

Strategy 100
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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Mick's IT Blogs: List Installed Windows 7 Updates

Mick's IT Blog

'Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered. -->. Micks IT Blogs. My blog is here to help solve issues I have encountered and solved, publish scripts I have written, and educate others in understanding areas that are not well covered.

Windows 91
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Fountainhead: Will The "Stack Wars" Impact the Hybrid Cloud?

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, April 23, 2012. Will The "Stack Wars" Impact the Hybrid Cloud? Its been a busy few weeks in cloud O/S land, first with the Amazon/Eucalyptus announcement and then with Citrix/CloudStack announcement , then last weeks OpenStack show in San Francisco.

Cloud 180
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spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution

SPF13

spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good starting point for anyone intending to use VIM for development running equally well on Windows, Linux, *nix and Mac. The distribution is completely customisable using a ~/.vimrc.local and ~/.vimrc.bundles.local Vim RC files. Unlike traditional VIM plugin structure, which similar to UNIX throws all files into common directories, making updating or disabling plugins a real mess, spf13-vim 3 uses the Vun

Linux 100
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Every business document should be in the cloud and concurrently editable

Trends in the Living Networks

I’m at the Melbourne Google Enterprise Atmosphere on Tour event , the first of 25 events around the world. I am doing the keynote on The Evolution of Business at the Melbourne and Sydney events, giving an external perspective which happens to be highly aligned with the Google vision. The event included a Google Apps demo. Since in my organizations we have used Google Apps for several years the demo initially seemed very straightforward to me, though in fact I did see a number of features t

Cloud 121
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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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NJVC® and Gravitant® Announce New Strategic Alliance

Cloud Musings

'Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson. Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Pages. Home. Cloud Musings on Forbes. NJVC Cloud Computing. GovCloud Daily. GovCloud Presentations. GovCloud on Facebook. Get "Cloud Musings" by RSS. Posts. Atom. Posts. Comments.

Cloud 90
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Hello CIO: You're In Politics Now! (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Image Credit No matter where you stand, you are now in politics. Can’t a CIO just rise above all of the politics? I mean really, with all of the technology decisions that need to be made along with the IT department business processes that need to be streamlined, can’t we all just skip the politics and get down to business? It turns out that we can’t and that means that as CIO you’re going to have to make sure that your team is good at playing the office politics game….

Strategy 100
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BYOD, The Secret Sauce - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. BYOD, The Secret Sauce. by Brian Katz on April 4, 2012 · 6 comments. There are a lot of articles floating around right now about how BYOD is the next big thing. It’s already here. 77% of companies are doing BYOD. You see these headlines everywhere and most of them are meaningless as companies are still trying to come to grips with how to really do Bring You Own Device.

Mobile 68
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The Best Enterprise Architecture: “Less is More”

Future of CIO

The challenge for modern EA is always: Keep it simple, keep it cohesive, keep it agile & transformational. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , father of “Less is More”, revolutionized architecture. His simple dictum that 'less is more' inspired building designs around the world. Enterprise needs to follow the same mantra: “Less is More.” Enterprise Architecture survey reveals that it is unlikely that only one enterprise architecture framework will provide a complete solution.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.