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How CIOs Can Prepare For The “Network Generation” Of Workers

The Accidental Successful CIO

Is social media awareness a good thing or a bad thing? This batch of hires is socially media savvy like no generation before them. The reason that CIOs feel this ways is because of how much of their lives they have spent involved in digital networks like Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube.

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Brazil's President restricts which posts social networks can remove

TechSpot

According to the new rules, social networks can only immediately take down content involving violence, drugs, or nudity, or if they encourage crime or violate copyrights. The Brazilian government's Twitter account said the decree "forbids the removal of content that. Removal of any other content will require a court order.

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Are we just ants in a death spiral? Researchers call for scientific studies of social media networks

GeekWire

Researchers at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public are studying the science behind social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and others. The research was a sort of call to arms to bring attention to the massive challenges represented by misinformation and communication networks. Can you explain?

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Reality check: intelligence agencies have been using social network analysis since the 1990s

Trends in the Living Networks

Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. I fail to understand why this is big news, since US intelligence agencies have been using social network analysis (SNA) for domestic purposes since the 1990s, and likely even before that. I have been focused on networks since long before I wrote Living Networks in 2002.

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E-Government: A Graduate Class

CIO Musings

One thing I am working on for this fall that I am very excited about is a class at VCU that is near and dear to me: E-Government. The class title is INFO 691 Topics in Information Systems – Digital Government This class is about using information and communication technologies to provide government services.

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO Business Intelligence

When making decisions about network access, businesses need to be aware of and assess the security implications associated with network technology to help keep their digital assets protected. Cyber hygiene best practices include device security , cyber security education , and secure networking strategies.

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5 Ways to Kickoff Data Governance in Self-Service BI Programs

Social, Agile and Transformation

Sponsoring self-service BI where business users are empowered to develop their own dashboards and instrumenting data governance are not conflicting objectives. Go count the number of Excel spreadsheets or GSheets are on your network. In fact, they are complementary and both are necessary to enable data driven organizations.