As a former enterprise CTO and current technology watcher, I was struck at the incredible brilliance of yesterday’s announcement by Dell and Cloudera. In a move that will help enterprises of all sizes serve a very wide range of missions, those two organizations have announced a new relationship that will enable something that has neverRead… Read more »
Looks like it’s my turn in the barrel for another webinar about how govs can save money and increase efficiency by using modern technology. I have to admit that I am a bit keyed up about the direction technology is heading and now is the time to take advantage of the opportunities. Too often govsRead… Read more »
Are you or someone you know planning to prepare for the PMP Exam? Would you like to know everything that I know about the process of studying for and passing the exam? Then all you have to do is watch the following free videos on YouTube: http://pm-prepcast.com/8videos In this 8-part series from The PM PrepCastRead… Read more »
This week’s episode of The Project Management Podcast: In last week’s episode we gave you tips, tricks and lessons learned how you can improve your project communications with proper use of modern tools. Call them social media tools, call them enterprise 2.0 tools, call them whatever you want. But at the core of using themRead… Read more »
It’s been over a month since Google launched Google+, its latest foray into the world of social media. Our official guidance to clients who want to put their brand on Google+ has been simple from the day it launched: wait. Now that Google+ has been around for a little over a month, our advice remainsRead… Read more »
Several important things happened in the world of open government and technology this week. Let me know which articles should be added to the list by commenting below! The U.S. has a new Chief Information Officer. Alex Howard has this write-up about it and here’s Nick Judd’ post on it. The 2011 FOCAS, Networks andRead… Read more »
You experience something of interest and write a blog post to share it with others. It may be from a conversation, an event, points made at a conference, or your experience in making something. If you are merely reporting, the reader gets a pretty flat experience – the true value is absent from the post.Read… Read more »
Word on the street is that when life first appeared on the planet, it was single-cell. It took a little bit of time (i.e. millions and millions of years) for life to get its differentiation on. But soon, you could see it (or not, since people weren’t around yet): mitochondria, smooth ER and rough ER,Read… Read more »
The BuyAccessible Wizard frequently receives comments from buyers trying to buy keyboards. Few keyboard manufacturers provide accessibility information for common, inexpensive keyboards. Buyers are not likely to have much luck asking for a VPAT on a $9.99 keyboard and it should be pretty easy to determine if it is accessible. To meet the Section 508Read… Read more »
School teachers are trusted to draw up lesson plans, give lectures, assign homework, talk to parents and hand out grades… but in the state of Missouri, they’re no longer authorized to communicate with students via non-public social media. A new law in Missouri places restrictions on the amount of contact teachers and students can haveRead… Read more »