I had my own Wimbledon moment this week. Played tennis with a friend to a 5-5 tie Tuesday morning. Then like Mahut I finished that set this morning and lost 8-6 and then lost the 2nd set 6-2. Life lessons from tennis… I play better if I’m not thinking ahead to the next point orRead… Read more »
I’m posting this a day early, in advance of the July 4th holiday weekend… The White House lifts the ban on cookies, the nation’s smallest state makes a big impact on its website thanks to a five-second quiz, USA.gov compiles a list of government apps, and Gov 2.0 experts give tips on avoiding social mediaRead… Read more »
On Friday, June 25, the White House Office of Management and the Budget changed the rules for federal Internet sites. Memorandum m-10-22 “establishes new procedures and provides updated guidance and requirements for agency use of Web measurement and customization technologies.” In issuing the new guidelines, OMB Director Peter Orzag wrote, “The central goal is toRead… Read more »
Been around long enough to the “birth” of the internet, and it’s rebirth a couple of times, could this be the next rebirth? My personal opinion is that this ought to be the way we are headed, not sure there won’t be a lot of speed bumps along the way but… Marina Gorbis‘s blog WeRead… Read more »
Wait, isn’t every day Social Media Day around here??
Let’s face it. You cannot truly measure employee output, once you are managing people who are not producing or processing widgets per hour – people we call, erroneously, “knowledge workers.” People who are useful and productive because of the relationships they maintain, the external sources they consult to solve problems, and the imagination they bringRead… Read more »
Recent discussion about the cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) brought me back nearly a decade to a time when, as an IT director, I stood in the way of just such a proposal for government software…as a service. My state had selected a vendor. Their task: produce a portal website and provide farRead… Read more »
As you may recall, in part one of defining the Social Organization we discussed a few reasons why we need a new view of the world. We also took time to define The Social Organization in very simple terms: The Social Organization will use standard approaches that make it easy for customers/citizens to find andRead… Read more »
With the strengthening of Hurricane Alex, today marks the first hurricane of the 2010 season, and the 70th day since the Deepwater Horizon explosion. The question on everyone’s mind is without a doubt, “What impact will a hurricane have on the oil spill?” The short answer is “no one knows,” since a hurricane has neverRead… Read more »
Yesterday I attended a Meetup with the State Department at NAPA. The theme for the event was connective technologies and how can we use the internet as a catalyst to bring people together. The speakers were Alec Ross, Senior Advisor for Innovation in the Office of Secretary of State; Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder & CEO ofRead… Read more »