By BobGourley Today, 16 Oct 2012, Recorded Future will be holding their first annual user network conference in DC. This promises to be a fantastic event and we hope to see many CTOvision readers there. For those that can’t make it, you can track the event on Twitter via the #RFUN2012 hashtag and via theRead… Read more »
Tourism Australia, state and territory tourism agencies and many regions and cities are now using social media to promote their location (their brand) to potential tourists. Using the traditional approach, these accounts are managed by professionals employed by agencies and tourism bodies, communicating with official approved messages. However other countries have begun to explore theRead… Read more »
From the Wall Street Journal: Through three separate experiments a team of scientists from Hiroshima University showed that people showed higher levels of concentration after looking at pictures of puppies or kittens. The study’s authors write that in the future cute objects could be used as a way to trigger emotions “to induce careful behavioralRead… Read more »
AFCEA Bethesda Smart Tech Symposium Interview Series: Interview with Catherine Norman On October 23, AFCEA Bethesda is hosting an innovative educational symposium for government and industry participants who are or want to be on the cutting edge of smart technology and sustainability. The goals of the event are to make the business case for sustainability,Read… Read more »
I’ve worked with online communities in one form or another for most of the past 15 years. They’re a powerful thing. And, through the use of social media tools and social networks empowered by hyperconnectivity, they have the capacity to make a significant difference in the world. So, why are so many people (especially theRead… Read more »
If you’ve worked in contract management, you know that contract management professionals predominantly tend to be administratively minded. I’ve never been able to point to empirical evidence until now. O*Net Online has a lot of data on wages, education, and personalities of purchasing managers, who fall under the contract management field. Some areas worth highlightingare:Read… Read more »
By BobGourley Cloud Front Group was forged to provide game-changing analytical technologies to transform decision-making. The firm is building on years of deep mission understanding and architecture experience to bring the right solutions to bear on some of the nation’s hardest analytical challenges. Bob Gourley serves as the Cloud Front Group CTO to ensure everyRead… Read more »
In recent months there have been a number of articles on emergency preparedness myths or commonly held notions about disasters. These myths point out a number of topics that are still being addressed by the EM community of various public and private agencies. Expenses & Effort Required: Being prepared is not expensive or complicated asRead… Read more »
Originally posted on TechSource by Dan Klanderman We’ve seen it coming for years, and in fact, planned on this disruption to the federal workforce. Yet, the federal retirement tsunami is still causing a disturbance in federal agencies, as a large population of federal employees reach retirement age concurrently. Nearly 9,000 retirement claims were filed inRead… Read more »
By BobGourley CTOvision.com‘s parent is Crucial Point LLC, a consultancy that operates in the federal IT ecosystem. We are especially focused on technologies of interest to the national security community. That is largely because of our background. All of us at Crucial Point, including me, have a background in national security matters. So as youRead… Read more »