September, 2010

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16 lessons from 16 years : 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. 16 lessons from 16 years. Iâ??ve been working in the technology industry for the last 16 years. Iâ??ve learned a lot.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: The Taiwan GovCloud

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.

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Australia's top 25 business blogs ranked by traffic

Trends in the Living Networks

SmartCompany has released a nice list of Australia's 25 top business blogs , created by Brad Howarth. With the list is a useful article running through the highlights of the blogs on the list, including why these leading businesses blog, the value they get from it, how they go about it, and far more. There is also a number of good points on the keys to running a success blog.

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CIO to CIO: You gotta recruit people who are better than you to succeed

A CIO's Voice

'As a senior executive I am expected to know everything related to my department. That is the nature of the beast. For anyone that has managed a successful MIS group, you know that is virtually impossible. IT is a very broad discipline. Being a CIO, I am pulled in a several different directions sometimes at the same time. Having the ability to manage everything means surrounding myself with people that can manage their core areas successfully and that can handle the details – especially th

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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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Passion, obsession, and the autistic child

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

As any parent of an autistic child knows, the tendency of our kids to perseverate is a fact of life. Or, at least, it looks like perseveration to us, but it quite possibly could be good old fashioned perseverance. The distinction between “ perseverate &# and “ persevere &# is one that I often wondered about. What I’ve come up with, in a nutshell, is this: perseverate is bad, keeping at something for no real purpose. persevere is good, keeping at something in pursuit of a meanin

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Around the World in 28 Days - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Around the World in 28 Days. By Werner Vogels on 30 September 2010 04:27 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). On Monday I will leave Seattle for 4 weeks of meeting existing and future customers of the Amazon Web Services. With existing customers I get a change to dive deep on their AWS usage and understand what works well and where we can do better.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Army Cloud Computing in Korea!

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.

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Seven trends driving the future of financial advice

Trends in the Living Networks

The main reason I haven't been able to blog or Twitter much over the last week is that I am currently on a national speaking roadshow for a major financial services firm, hitting five cities in six business days, ending today. The firm is building relationships with its key financial advisors, hosting dinners in the best restaurants in each city, preceded by presentations from a prominent industry figure on the role of regulation and from myself on the big-picture future.

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Being CIO – What they don’t teach you in school…

A CIO's Voice

'“What does it take to be a CIO?” It’s a question I get asked alot. I could launch into why you don’t even want to know: the responsibilities, the politics, the hours. When you don’t know, it looks easy when someone else is doing it. “Walk a mile in someone’s shoes and you will know how difficult it is.” Not everyone is cut out to be a CIO and someone times you just can’t teach anyone to be one either.

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Effective Communication: How to Get to the Point

Lundberg Media

'To be a successful communicator, think of your listener first, and focus on attention. Communication is hard. To successfully convey information requires taking what’s in my head and getting it into yours in some reasonable facsimile of the original thought or idea. If you think this is easy, just remember the last time you tried […].

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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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Reboot - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Reboot. By Werner Vogels on 29 September 2010 07:50 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Like many folks who started down the path of using real-time micro-blogging services (read: twitter ) the convenience of those platforms has made that sharing happens there instead of on the blogs we (used to) keep.

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Thou Shalt Learn!

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

What is a friend? Seems a simple enough question, but in this age of FaceBook, Twitter, and all the rest, the word itself is getting a lot of use. Use that some people say is not appropriate. I got started thinking down this line a couple of weeks ago when I heard a reporter on NPR refer to a group of people as “ friends, loosely “ I forget the exact context, but basically it was a face-to-face gathering of people from around the country who only “knew&# (the reporter’s q

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Yongsan Army Garrison Does.

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.

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What can destroy the boundaries of your industry

Trends in the Living Networks

The hefty tome The Support Economy by Shoshana Zuboff and Jim Maxmin is a challenging but rewarding read, describing in detail the rise of distributed capitalism. Of all the big ideas of the last decade, the concept of business and society being driven by connected individuals and small groups is one of the most powerful, and Zuboff has arguably captured better than any.

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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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Management Lessons from the Japanese

A CIO's Voice

'Having spent many years in a Japanese bank, these 2 articles hit home regarding what we, as executives, can learn from the Japanese business culture. 6 Lessons From Japanese Business Culture by Roberto Rocha. 7 Lessons From Japanese Business Culture – Part II by Samuel Hui. Filed under: C-Level Executives , Career , Leadership , Management Tagged: culture , japanes , japanese business , japanese culture , Leadership , lessons of business , Management.

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Persuasive Communication

Lundberg Media

'This is an excerpt from my Persuasive Communication workshop. The previous post and the next one flesh out some of this content, but I thought you might like to see the slides – they’re pretty nice. The images are from either istockphoto.com or Flickr.com Creative Commons license. Enjoy! Filed under: Communication Tagged: attention economy, Communication, […].

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Windows Small Business Server ?7.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, September 21, 2010. Windows Small Business Server “7” Released to Public Beta. This morning Microsoft released the Windows Small Business Server “7” release to Beta. This marks yet another major milestone for the Windows Server Solutions Team, now releasing both the Windows Home Server “Vail” , and Windows Small Business Server Hybrid Edition &#

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Don’t mourn for them

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

The HBO film Temple Grandin , which I wrote about back when it first aired, recently won 7 Emmy awards, including Outstanding Made for TV Movie. Here’s what I had to say about the movie back then: I encourage you to watch this film with an open mind. It may just help you understand the sentiment that those with autism are different, but not less, and are most definitely not broken.

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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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- CIO Loners and Joiners

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

'Chief Information Officers need “help” Some might say we need psychiatric “help” I’d say we especially need the psychiatrist’s couch. Or, perhaps, we need to play the psychiatrist, listening to the people on the couch – our customers. CIOs need to be “joiners” We need to be good at establishing relationships, empathizing (putting ourselves into the shoes of others), and we need to be generalists in our businesses.

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ABC24: Can newspapers successfully charge for online content?

Trends in the Living Networks

My thoughts on newspaper content paywalls were recently featured in an interview on ABC24. The segment begins with an overview of newspapers' plans to charge for online content, including quotes from Rupert Murdoch and industry commentators, and is followed by an interview with me. My comments in the interview include: * There are better chances of charging for online news working for Australia, given the unusual concentration of media ownership. * Of the various models of charging for online co

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CIO from Within? Maybe…

A CIO's Voice

'Should a company promote someone from within to be CIO? Case 1: Yes – If the company IT structure is such that there are divisional CIOs then it probably makes sense. Divisional CIOs usually have local jurisdiction over their specific budgets and staff. Therefore they have the experience to step up and lead the organization as CIO. Case 2: No – If the company does not have people experienced in people, processes and technology.

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100 Days as CIO; A Retrospective - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

'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. Tuesday, September 07, 2010. 100 Days as CIO; A Retrospective.

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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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Holidays in Fiji – yay!

Trends in the Living Networks

We are about to leave for Fiji! We planned our holiday a couple of months ago, when we realized this was one of the only times I could carve out before the end of the year. Since then I’ve been too busy to appreciate the fact that it’s coming up, though knowing I'm about to go on holiday has made my intense schedule a bit easier to cope with. I will realize that it’s real when I arrive there.

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ReBoot – The Shave: How much is too much?

A CIO's Voice

'When I started shaving, I used a simple 2 blade disposable razor. I didn’t need anything fancy and shaving once a week meant I could use the same razor several times. What did I care? I was still in high school. I do remember cutting myself a lot. Looking back, I never really learned how to shave properly. Like other fathers and sons, my dad gave me the basics.

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CIO Blogs for September 2010

A CIO's Voice

'Technology to the rescue! (or not) by Don Lewis. What’s wrong with today’s IT? by Eric D. Brown. Why IT Must Embrace Facebook, Twitter, iPhone by Mike Schaffner. Another variation for the CIO (Chief Imagination Officer ) by Oh I See (CIO Inverted). 100 Days as CIO; A Retrospective by Isaac Sacolick. Why Do None Of The Other Kids Want To Play With The CIO?

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“Talk amongst yourselves…”

A CIO's Voice

'It’s funny; the hardest thing I do during my day is manage staff. It encompasses the bulk of my time and is where most of my energy is spent. As I transition the department, from what it was to what it should be. I am encountering some bad practices. One of the bad habits that I am seeing is the lack of communication among my staff. It is not horrible, but it definitely could be better.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Technology Review – Garmin Approach G5

A CIO's Voice

'I recently went out and bought the Garmin Approach G5 ( https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=261&pID=31070 ) gps to help in my golf game. I have been on the fence about buying a gps for some time. It seems like whenever I play with golf buddies I am always asking them for distances. For a novice golfer like myself, it actually helps to know how far to hit a shot.

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Autism and “I”

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

Since I signed up today for the Strange Loop software developer conference here in St. Louis, it seemed fitting to repost this article, originally published on my autism blog nearly three years ago. - – — — —– ——– Earlier this summer [2007] I read Douglas Hofstadter ’s new book, I Am a Strange Loop. As Hofstadter mentions early in the book, a more appropriate title would have been “I” is a Strange Loop ; the book is about the nature of conscious

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For knowledge workers, solving problems is the easy part

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

I read – and highly recommend – Garry Kasparov’s book How Life Imitates Chess a couple of years ago, and am thinking I should pick it back up again. If not to read in its entirety, then at least to skim through my dog-ears and margin notes. There are a lot of good insights into the nature of work today, especially what we call knowledge-work.

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Explaining Twitter

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

There are many ways to use Twitter , and at least as many ways to (try to) explain Twitter to people who haven’t yet given it a try. The one I’m most often faced with is from an “average Joe / Jane&# that isn’t interested in knowing what someone is having for lunch or that they are changing a really nasty diaper. This is what I’ve come up with for them: Twitter is a way to meet people.

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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.