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Government Social Business

Since joining AIIM a month ago, I have been blessed to be able to expose my thoughts and tweets to a whole new community. I have noticed since using the #AIIM hashtag, I have been getting more ECM and E2.0 practitioners following me than ever before. My normal self-promotion of ideas and re-sharing of othersRead… Read more »

Cutting Costs, Improving Performance: A Video Overview

A few months ago, the Center for the Business of Government released a publication and started a blog devoted to cutting costs while improving performance at government agencies. We’re now producing videos that will, eventually, cover all seven stratgies we recommend. This video will eventually serve as the introduction to that series, but we areRead… Read more »

Putting Lipstick On A Rock

Thanks, Gabriela, for the commment on the previous post. I started to answer, and then realized this was turning into a post of its own. It’s extremely important when implementing egov solutions to ensure the implementation will have a customer focused result. Over the last 21 years, I’ve been involved in many egov solutions, andRead… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: February 25, 2011 (Government Shut-Down Preview Edition)

Gadi Ben-Yehuda The Government Shutdown and You(Tube): Andrea Di Maio published a peice titled “What if Government 1.0 Shut Down? Government 2.0 May Have To As Well,” a great read, as is the comment by Doug Hadden. Also, NextGov points to one difference between the last government shut-down and this year’s potential shut-down in itsRead… Read more »

It’s Time For America To Change It’s Business Plan And Start A Revolution

This article is written in the wake of a potential Government Shut down on March 4th, and to be read by those who receive a paycheck every two weeks from your job. For those who own their own business, and do not receive a steady paycheck, and are committed to improving our economy, want toRead… Read more »

Can’t I just Email Them? Why User Adoption Cannot Occur Remotely.

This article was originally published on Tri Tuns Blog. OBSERVATION Do you remember when there was no email system? When you had only two choices of either meeting by phone or in person to conduct business? As amazing as technology is – along with its conveniences – it also has the potential to take awayRead… Read more »

The Role of Broadband

There are 47 published submissions to the “Inquiry into the role and potential of the National Broadband Network” on on the the House Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications web site. Some which got my attention were:Infrastructure Australia (PDF 566KB)Mr Andrew Freeman (PDF 95KB)Mr Tom Worthington (PDF 306KB)Mr Chris Avram (PDF 113KB)University of Tasmania (PDFRead… Read more »

GovSec conference is March 29-31 2011

The folks organizing the GovSec 2011 Conference and Expo have just given me a code that will give you a 10% discount when you register for their event, and they would like me to share that with you. That’s nice of them isn’t it? I try to go to this conference every year. When I’mRead… Read more »

Windows Phone State & Local Government Apps Contest Winners Revealed!

Kim Nelson, Microsoft US Public Sector executive director of eGovernment I just celebrated my fifth anniversary at Microsoft. In those five years, my two daughters finished four years of high school and are now both in college. Like most parents of teenagers working at Microsoft, I’ve had to listen my girls bemoan the fact thatRead… Read more »