CIO Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2008

'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! Monday, December 29, 2008. Richmond IT Jobs. A job lead passed on from a business colleague, email me if you want his phone number: 45 IT positions opened with my client this evening.

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DECEMBER 11, 2008

'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. One Hundred Pushups. Photographer: Frank C. Müller. A while back a bunch of people were twittering about the 100 pushup challenge.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 29, 2008

'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. Monday, December 29, 2008. Top 5 Attributes of Talented Agile Developers.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Following our extremely popular Trend Blend 2007 and Trend Blend 2008 trend maps comes…. Trend Blend 2009 ! Created by Future Exploration Network’s Chief Futurist Richard Watson, also of NowandNext.com , the 2009 trend map moves on from the subway map theme of the last years to show the multi-tentacled hydra that is the year ahead. Click on the map to download the pdf (810KB).

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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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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2008

A question I get asked frequently is how working in industry is different from working in academia. My answer from the beginning has been that the main difference is teamwork. While in academia there are collaborations among faculty and there are student teams working together, the work is still rather individual, as is the reward structure.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

DECEMBER 18, 2008

After 10 days on Twitter I have 31 followers, am following 19, and have posted 74 updates. As one of his 100 conversations , Tony Karrer is interested to know how I use twitter for personal learning. I’m not sure I’m to the point where I’m doing any real learning through twitter yet, but here are some preliminary thoughts on my brief experience with twitter so far.

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DECEMBER 28, 2008

One of the worst experiences you can have as a computer operator is to realize you (or something else) just did something and wiped out your files. The purpose of this article is to show you how to automatically backup your files often and automatically. I use this setup to backup my documents every hour (I save more often then that). This gives me hourly versions of all my files I am working on.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 3, 2008

'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. Thursday, December 04, 2008. Is Your Enterprise Ready for Agile Development?

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 15, 2008

In early February I am delivering a keynote at the MegaTrends conference in Abu Dhabi, one of three international keynote speakers together with John Naisbitt , who sold over 9 million copies of MegaTrends and created an industry, and Dr Lynda Grattan , author of Living Strategy and Professor at London Business School. I recently did a press briefing by video for journalists in the UAE, touching on some of the themes I’ll cover in my keynote at the conference.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 22, 2008

I wrote a first version of this posting on consistency models about a year ago, but I was never happy with it as it was written in haste and the topic is important enough to receive a more thorough treatment. ACM Queue asked me to revise it for use in their magazine and I took the opportunity to improve the article.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

DECEMBER 22, 2008

In a recent post I asked if you, as an individual, have a coach. My question for today: Do you, as a leader of an organization, have a coach for your team(s)? If you don’t have a separate position for a coach, do you act as the coach for your team? Or do you just not think your team needs a coach to help them carry out their jobs and missions?

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CIO Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2008

'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, December 12, 2008. Fun or Work? A funny thing I ran across, in the midst of the pay-for-play thing going on in Illinois.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

I am happy to announce that Portero has raised $6.6 million in funding. The round was led by LFE Capital joined by returning backers including Grosvenor Funds. TechCrunch picked up the announcement early this morning and featured us on their home page. As I have a bit of an insiders view, I felt it was my place to provide a bit of insight into why Portero is such a great company.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

DECEMBER 8, 2008

In his book "The Wisdom of Crowds - Why the many are smarter than the few", James Surowiecki makes - indirectly but nonetheless powerfully - a very good case for Knowledge Management or the leverage of individual and collective knowledge. Simply put this way, that the many are smarter than the few is hardly a contentious statement. After all, a croud of say 1000 individuals should be smarter than only 500 of this same croud most of the times.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 17, 2008

About Ross Dawson. Keynote Speaking/Strategy. Future Exploration Network. AHT Group. Books and Reports. Recent Media Appearances. « Upcoming Keynote at MegaTrends in Abu Dhabi: Four trends transforming society | Main. Interviews: Six important forces that will shape 2009. Ross Dawson, December 16, 2008 2:40 PM US PT. Iâ??ve done two radio interviews this morning, asking me for forecasts for the year ahead.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Starting today the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) supports the ability to launch instances in multiple geographically distinct regions. The new EU region enables users to launch instances in Europe. This addresses the requests from many our European customers and from companies that want to run instances closer to European customers.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

DECEMBER 19, 2008

All too often I see people focusing on their own personal weaknesses or shortcomings. Worse still, many parents do the same thing with their kids and many employers with their employees. I’ve often wondered why this is, why the focus on negativity when we, and the people around us, all have such incredible strengths to appreciate and use. This focus on the negative is the most blatant when it comes to working with those with disabilities.

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CIO Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2008

'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! Saturday, December 6, 2008. Effect of Unemployment. I read an article in the paper tonight that claimed the unemployment rate could approach 10% before employers begin hiring again.

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DECEMBER 11, 2008

Image via Wikipedia I don’t know very many people that haven’t been devastated by the loss of data… Yet I am baffled that millions of professional IT workers still ignore backing up their data. Since computers are great at doing repetitive things like backups. why not spend 20 minutes setting up your machine to backup your files for you. This guide will be specific to mysql to create a local copy of the backup.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2008

'Shocked over the FCC Chairman? I am schocked, SHOCKED to learn that an senior official of the Bush Administration would abuse his power , withhold information from the public and members of his agency, and attempt to manipulate data and information to advance his personal agenda, perhaps directing excess payments of up to $100 million to private companies.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 9, 2008

As I wrote last week , I decided to use the design exchange 99designs for our new logo for Advanced Human Technologies. We received over 140 logo submissions, including many very high quality designs, going through a highly iterative process to get an excellent outcome. Click here to see the submissions and winner (however quite a few designers have withdrawn their designs so they are no longer visible - the full field was a lot more impressive).

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CIO Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2008

'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! Saturday, December 6, 2008. Networking & Outreach Workshop. (copied from a GRTC Email.

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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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DECEMBER 10, 2008

Photographer: Frank C. Müller A while back a bunch of people were twittering about the 100 pushup challenge. Thanksgiving was the catalyst for me. I began my quest for better health about a week ago. The premise of the challenge is quite simple. It is a six week program, that if followed, you can do 100 consecutive good form push ups at the end of the program.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Moving towards our Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum 2009 , a key issue has to be how these themes are relevant to the most prominent concerns of senior executives. In short, how will applying Web 2.0 and mobile technologies in organizations save money, increase efficiency and productivity, increase market share, and build profitability? A number of recent blog posts have squarely addressed this issue, and are important reading in framing why Enterprise 2.0 must be a top priority for executives.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 22, 2008

I just received my latest book shipment from Amazon.com - it's a tasty pile and I thought I'd share the list in case people are interested. Friendfeed is a nice way to share my various activities, but doesn't include book purchases, which I'd probably prefer to share on an ad-hoc basis anyway. Below are the books, together with brief comments. In most cases I haven't read them cover to cover yet, but I'll offer my thoughts either through reputation or having had a browse.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 18, 2008

I’m giving the keynote, titled Embracing the Future , at the Defining our Future conference in the Gold Coast 22-24 March, run by the Direct Selling Association. Below is an introductory video on the event, briefly reviewing the event and main speakers. DSAA 2009 from Tom Walter on Vimeo. I’ve never spoken to the direct selling industry before, but certainly the themes I often cover of the evolving network economy and media landscape is highly relevant to the audience.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum is shaping up to once again be the premier event in Australia on how Web 2.0, mobile, and emerging technologies are being applied to create value in organizations. An early registration special of $110 off applies until 24 December, so don’t forget to include it in your pre-Christmas shopping! And remember, there are significant additional discounts for members of AIMIA, Innovation Bay, NSW KM Forum, and PRIA.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Anyone who uses Twitter will be deeply familiar with the issue of who you follow and who you follow back. As Twitter continues to gather traction, popular Twitterers are gathering followers at an increasing pace. If you're on Twitter, by default you get an email whenever someone follows you, giving you the option of looking at their profile and deciding whether you want to follow them back.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Using the Cynefin framework, Shawn at the Anecdote blog takes a look at the question of When should we collaborate? It’s always useful to define your terms before starting this kind of discussion, and Shawn obliges with the following: So what is collaboration then? It's when a group of people come together, driven by mutual self-interest, to constructively explore new possibilities and create something that they couldn't do on their own.

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I'm not lost, I'm wondering

DECEMBER 15, 2008

In November 2007, security consultant Bruce Schneier wrote an article for Wired.com entitled The War on the Unexpected , which he opened with the following paragraph: We’ve opened up a new front on the war on terror. It’s an attack on the unique , the unorthodox , the unexpected ; it’s a war on different. If you act different , you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested — even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong.

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