SPF13
AUGUST 26, 2010
'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. Selling on OpenSky. As anyone who reads my blog or follows my tweets knows, Iâ??ve been working for a new startup called OpenSky since February 2010.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 24, 2010
On Thursday I am giving the closing keynote at Newspaper Publishers Association Future Forum conference in Sydney. I gave a sneak preview of some of what I will be covering, leading to a wide variety of coverage including in The Australian , by Roy Greenslade in The Guardian , on The Inquisitr , and on Mumbrella (including a rich discussion). I will also be doing some interviews on ABC radio tonight and tomorrow.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
AUGUST 11, 2010
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Wednesday, August 11, 2010. How To Get a Team to Think Agile.
Cloud Musings
AUGUST 29, 2010
'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.
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A CIO's Voice
AUGUST 24, 2010
'Great article on CIO.com on the changing role of the CIO. The New New CIO Role: Big Changes Ahead. Filed under: CIO Tagged: Chief Information Officer , CIO , CIO Leader , CIO role.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
AUGUST 30, 2010
I’ve been following Luis Suarez’ ( @elsua ) thoughts on a world without e-mail for quite a while now. His arguments have always made sense, and yet I’ve always had this nagging feeling of, “Yeah, but… &#. Last week I had a chance to view/listen to a recent presentation Luis gave about making the jump from e-mail to social media tools, along with the mind map – no PowerPoint, either!
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Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 26, 2010
This morning I ran the iPad Strategy Workshop at Newspaper Publishers Association Future Forum in Sydney. To provide a framework for discussion at the workshop (and also as part of our ongoing research into effective approaches to the iPad for media and news organizations) I created a visual framework of key strategic issues, as below. I will delve into these strategic issues in later posts.
Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
AUGUST 2, 2010
Aft er my recent trip to Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference , I have given more thought to " the cloud ," the star of the show at WPC. Since our return from WPC, I have been quizzed by colleagues, clients, and partners abou t KMA's strategy for the cloud and our intentions toward Microsoft's cloud solutions. Let me be VERY clear on this: I think cloud computing is critically important, and has the ability to fundamentally change with way organizations execute information technology.
Cloud Musings
AUGUST 27, 2010
'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.
A CIO's Voice
AUGUST 23, 2010
'“The orphaned CIO is a CIO without a leader.” . Have you been in an organization where they do not know where to place the CIO? Organizationally management does not see the CIO as a leader but just the tech guy managing technology and spending money and all around just a cost center. The hardest part is reporting to someone that does not see you as part their team and you are left to fend for yourself and your IT department.
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.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
AUGUST 31, 2010
For many years I have wondered, “Why doesn’t every child in school have an IEP (individual education plan)?&# I first wrote this question nearly 5 years ago. At the time I was content to let the question stand on its own, but over the years it has never been too far back in my mind. Lately, the question has evolved in my mind to become, “What would school be like if every child had an IEP?
Sean Daniel
AUGUST 19, 2010
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, August 19, 2010. Our first Aurora add-in, which also works on Vail. Looks like our first Aurora add-in has shown its head! the AWIECO RemoteLauncher. If you want to try add-ins, then go ahead and try this one out. The AWIECO RemoteLauncher add-in for Small Business Server "Aurora" and Windows Home Server "Vail" Beta Refresh is a free and useful add-in, which g
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 30, 2010
Flipboard and Paper.li are two of the hottest properties in media today. Over the last six weeks they have taken social news curation to a new level. This will undoubtedly soon spawn hordes of competitors, while these leaders in the field continue to evolve their offerings. The result will be that we all have far better access to the news that we want from world of infinite information.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
AUGUST 5, 2010
'This past Tuesday night, there were 1,219 parties in the street all around Seattle. Kids, hot dogs, drinks, cops and firefighters and neighbors everywhere. It was part of the National Night Out. And it was, perhaps, one of the last in Seattle, as the City may cut the jobs of six or seven crime coordinators responsible for the Blockwatch program. Blockwatch programs are a widespread form of civic engagement.
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Cloud Musings
AUGUST 11, 2010
'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.
A CIO's Voice
AUGUST 19, 2010
'Becoming a CIO – Current Thinking for IT Leaders by Scott Booher . Countering a disturbing bandwagon: rich vs. poor IT organizations by Peter Kretzman. The diminishing role of IT and the CIO(?) by Eric D. Brown. Strategic or Operational, the choice is yours! by Oh I See (CIO Inverted). Filed under: C-Level Executives , Career , CIO , CIO Jobs , CIO/CTO , IT Process , Leadership , Management Tagged: Alignment , CIO , CIO Leader , CIO role , corporate innovation , corporate politics , CTO , cult
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
AUGUST 17, 2010
… not Microsoft, not social media tools, but: PEOPLE. A recent blog post by Dave Snowden and some commentary by Luis Suarez have reminded me of something Bruce Schneier said a while back (in 2004, actually): Since the beginning of time, people have always been the biggest security threat. That hasn’t changed because of computers. People are why firewalls are invariably misconfigured.
Sean Daniel
AUGUST 19, 2010
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, August 19, 2010. Dana Epp – SBS MVP and Security Expert talks about Remote Access and security precautions to take. Dana Epp on Five by 5–Securing Remote Access Dana covers important topics about what you can do to give your employees remote access, while at the same time ensuring the security to your network is maintained.
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Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 31, 2010
Melcrum recently released a report on How to use social media to solve critical communication issues , with as usual some great case studies and many practical insights. Go to the report website for a full overview and executive summary. I was asked to write the closing section in the report, on The Future of Social Media and Internal Communications.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
AUGUST 19, 2010
'Update 08-25-10: I’ll write another post on the results of the Tinkerstorm, but the Tropo Blog has a list of results and awards here. “Hacking” has a bad connotation. We’re going to change that in Seattle this weekend with the Open Government Hackathon. The Hackathon is the culmination of of Geek Week here in Seattle. Yeah, yeah most of you non-Puget-Sounders think every week is Geek Week in Seattle, complete with nerdish denizens such as Microsofties, Googlers, Socrat
Cloud Musings
AUGUST 25, 2010
'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.
A CIO's Voice
AUGUST 11, 2010
'To some extent I am a pretty easy going CIO. I hire the best and expect the best from them. I give my staff the freedom to work and set their own deadlines. I don’t micromanage but when it comes to my priorities I follow my ‘Rule of Three’. Rule 1 – I ask nicely for something to be completed. You tell me when I can expect it to be completed and I will wait for the deadline.
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.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
AUGUST 30, 2010
During my conversations with colleagues about a world without e-mail , the Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014 came up. One of the points from the list that was brought to my attention was that this generation. “will need to acquire the patience of scholarship. They will discover how to research information in books and journals and not just on-line.&#.
Fountainhead
AUGUST 12, 2010
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, August 12, 2010. Converged Infrastructure, Part 3. Converged Infrastructure: What it Is, and What it Isnt. In my two earlier posts, I first took a stab at an overview of converged infrastructure and how it will change IT management , and in the second installment, I looked a bit closer at converged infrastructures cost advantages.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 17, 2010
Here is the first of a series of infographics we are creating on the iPad and media. It shows the growth in sales of the iPad, including actual sales figures announced by Apple and forecasts by a variety of players for the end of this calendar year. Click on the image to see at full size. It is interesting to look at the forecasts made before the launch of iPad for September 30 (Apple's end of financial year).
Sean Daniel
AUGUST 16, 2010
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Monday, August 16, 2010. Try out Windows Server Codename “Aurora” and a new version of Windows Server Codename “Vail” Today is a special day, because not one, but TWO products make it to public beta. The Small Business Server mystery sku known as “Aurora” and the next public beta of the Home Server sku, known as “Vail” It’s official onc
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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
AUGUST 23, 2010
As KMA progresses through our semi-annual process of employee reviews, we have been thinking a lot about goal-setting and SMART objectives. This process had made me think a lot about goal-setting and motivation, and about Daniel Pink's book that asks us to rethink motivation: "Drive.". This incredibly consumable and well-marketed book contains a lot of tools like chapter summaries, etc., but I've intentionally not touched them in a while and given the book some time to sink in so that I can w
A CIO's Voice
AUGUST 6, 2010
'The other day, a younger cousin of my wife visited for the first time. Upon seeing him, he immediately went to touch my feet. I am always taken aback when someone touches my feet. In fact, I am a little embarrassed by the whole gesture and try to stop it before it happens. In Indian culture, touching the feet of your elders means the person who is doing the act is showing respect and subservience to the one whose feet he/she is touching.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
AUGUST 16, 2010
I am reading Clay Shirky ’s book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age and will share my thoughts once I’ve completed it, but wanted to share this little tidbit now. The idea of true competition is one that really resonates with me and is something I’ve been trying to make sense of in a work and business environment.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 5, 2010
I am at The Future of Workplace Communications webcast, which is an hour-long discussion broadcast as live video as part of Viocorp's Future Forum series. (Archived event available soon). The four panellists are Oscar Trimboli, head of the Information Workers group at Microsoft, Nicky Wakefield who runs the Human Capital practice of Deloitte Australia, Phil Cronin, General Manager of Intel Australia, and myself.
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