March, 2012

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Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB : 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. Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB. MongoDB is the most full featured scalable database taking the tech world by storm.

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CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO: Non-Profit Tech Conference

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! Thursday, March 22, 2012. Non-Profit Tech Conference. Im speaking at this conference April 5th in Hopewell VA.

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Fountainhead: Meeting IRL: Why The Valley's So Cool

Fountainhead

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, March 6, 2012. Meeting IRL: Why The Valleys So Cool. IRL is a reference you see on twitter - it means "In Real Life.". Sometimes we underestimate the value of meeting in real life. Its more convenient to email than to pick up the phone.

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Is Manifesto the right word for our times?

Trends in the Living Networks

It strikes me that in these these confused and confusing times we should lay down clear thoughts about what we believe in. I am mustering my thoughts across a number domains to express what I think is important. However one of the questions is what to call these statements. On the face of it ‘Manifesto’ is an admirable description. From the political domain the Communist Manifesto (1848) and Anarchist Manifesto (1850) flowed through into artistic domain, with notably the Futurist Man

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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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Dear Spreadsheet Jockey, Welcome to Big Data

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. Friday, March 30, 2012. Dear Spreadsheet Jockey, Welcome to Big Data.

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Dr. Anderson Quoted In “CIOs May Be Reluctant to Report Suspicious Activity”

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Dr. Jim Anderson was quoted in the April 2012 edition of CIO magazine. The April 2012 edition of CIO Magazine contains an article titled “CIOs May Be Reluctant to Report Suspicious Activity” In this article, reporter Kim Nash interviews Dr. Jim Anderson to find out why CIOs may not report possibly illegal activity when they encounter it within a firm.

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CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO: Transparency

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! Friday, March 23, 2012. Transparency. Nice article on #ChesterfieldVa openness & transparency.

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Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers - All Things.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving Compute Cost Down for AWS Customers. By Werner Vogels on 05 March 2012 02:01 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world.

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5 things to tweet and 5 things NOT to tweet

Trends in the Living Networks

Earlier this week I spoke at a financial advisor retreat in the stunning Margaret River region of Western Australia, a region of wide-open beauty that is the source of many extraordinary wines. I gave two keynotes at the event on subsequent days, on How to Lock-in Your Clients , and Success in a Connected World , which drew on my connected world visual framework.

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Top Five Tools of Big Data Analytics

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, March 20, 2012. Top Five Tools of Big Data Analytics.

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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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3 Steps CIOs Can Take To Make Innovation Happen For Their IT Department (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'You never can tell where innovation will show up…. “Be more innovative” – how many times has your CEO told you that? Although being innovative isn’t really part of the definition of information technology, CIOs still want their IT department to always be ahead of what their internal customers want. We’d like to be able to have our IT staff be solving problems that our customers might not even know that they have.

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INSA Study on Cloud Computing in the Intelligence Community

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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CIO Musings - Life as a Public Sector CIO: Great New Book

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! Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Great New Book. Im reading "Seven Trends That Will Transform Local Government Through Technology", by Dr.Alan Shark at the Public Technology Institute.

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A Thousand Platforms. - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. A Thousand Platforms. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2012 09:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Todayâ??s AWS Elastic Beanstalk announcement of PHP and Git support reminded me of the post where I mentioned that we want to let a thousand platforms bloom on AWS.

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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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Yammer and why activity streams are a key foundation for integrated applications and organizations

Trends in the Living Networks

I caught up with some of the Yammer team this morning, including Chief Customer Officer David Obrand, while they are in town for the Yammer on Tour series. . I was particularly interested in talking with them about Yammer’s shift to activity streams. In the massive convergence of enterprise social platforms that we’ve seen over the last years, one of the major emerging spaces is activity streams.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Staying Connected to the World for the Remote.

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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CIO Skills: The Problem With Unhappy IT Employees Who Leave (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'If you have to leave, don’t leave unhappy. In tough times, every CIO has seen their share of IT workers leave the company. Sometimes they leave because they find a job that they think will be a better fit for them or sometimes the company tells them to leave. No matter what the cause, the one thing that you don’t want them to do is leave unhappy.

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International Public Sector Cloud Computing Summit in DC

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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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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Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun - CIO Musings

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! Sunday, March 4, 2012. Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun. Ive finished reading Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun.

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ReBoot – Happy Birthday Mr. CIO

A CIO's Voice

'I will be celebrating a major milestone in my life tomorrow-my 40 th birthday. Too be honest I don’t feel 40 even though some say I look 50. I think it is my premature gray hair which runs in my family. Damn those family genes. “Color it” they say. But I could never bring myself to doing that. Earlier this month I was depressed about turning 40. With deeper reflection there was no reason I should be.

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Insights and real-life case studies in effective crowdfunding for change

Trends in the Living Networks

This evening I spoke at the Crowdfunding for Change event run by Avis Mulhall ‘s Think Act Change. The event kicked off with a presentations by Adam Chapnick , head of business development at seminal creative crowdfunding platform IndieGogo , and award-winning film director Gillian Leahy , followed by a panel consisting of myself together with Alan Crabbe, co-founder of leading Australian crowdfunding site Pozible , and Ryan Wardell, founder of ProjectPowerUp.

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Mick's IT Blogs: UI Script to create Bootable Thumb Drives using.

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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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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Why CIOs Can't Pay Attention And What To Do About It (a chief information officer needs an IT strategy to create IT alignment)

The Accidental Successful CIO

'Why Can’t CIO’s just keep their minds on the task at hand? How’s that job going CIO? Do you find yourself and your IT department more and more often with too much to do and too few hands with which to do it? If so then maybe both of you are suffering from “CIO Attention Deficit Syndrome” What can you do about it? The Madness Of Trying To Do Too Much.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: NJVC® VP and GM, Cloud.

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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Why BYOD doesn't really matter or how I learned to embrace a.

A Screw's Loose

'Home. About. Standard Disclaimer. A Screw's Loose. Why BYOD doesn’t really matter or how I learned to embrace a mobile strategy Part 1. by Brian Katz on March 6, 2012 · 5 comments. In the last four weeks I have participated in three different twitter chats sponsored by the CITE Conference which I am currently winging my way towards.

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Mr. CIO Meets the Interns

A CIO's Voice

'My company has started a new program to get our interns oriented to process and provide relevant information about various departments. It is called “Jumpstart”. The goal is to give all our interns a flavor and/or in depth knowledge of various “things” they should know to work effectively. Most firms just throw their interns into the deep end and have them either sink or swim.

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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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Value based pricing is at the heart of the future of professional services

Trends in the Living Networks

In my first book Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships: The Future of Professional Services the final chapter was titled Value-Based Pricing: Implementing New Revenue Models. Pricing by value rather than time is clearly a central aspect to building true knowledge-based relationships, since knowledge should be measured by the value of its application rather than time spent by professionals.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Extreme Make-Over?Take 2: Cincinnati.

Sean Daniel

'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Monday, March 26, 2012. Extreme Make-Over–Take 2: Cincinnati Housing Partners Increase Efficiency. Well, Microsoft and HP are at it once again, performing an extreme make-over of a not-for-profit company. In this case they are helping lower income families get their first home, Cincinnati Housing Partners.

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EA & Five-Dimensional Business Capability Map

Future of CIO

Essentially, business is about the group of people to achieve something bigger or create value larger than each individual simply can not make by herself or himself. Therefore, a business capability is a pearl of collective wisdom and capability & capacity to allow business interconnecting people, knowledge, IT, tools and process to outperform rivals on some important measurement.

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NJVC's Kevin L. Jackson Co-Authors INSA White Paper on Cloud.

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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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.