At the HR Tech Conference, Old School Meets New School

The significant progress the HR industry has made in developing and leveraging social and digital technologies was clearly evident at this year’s HR Technology Conference in Chicago – especially in the Expo Hall. Not only were new technologies highlighted in the products and services offered by vendors, they were also integrated throughout the entire experience.Read… Read more »

YouTube record broken, new OpenStack clouds and more

By RyanKamauff Jumping from the edge of space set a new YouTube record (via Wired) Here are yesterday’s (oops!) top tech news and stories. When Felix Baumgarter jumped 120,000 miles above the earth, he also set a YouTube record for simultaneous views – the record setting jump was live posted on YouTube. The event wasRead… Read more »

A long overdue call to action on cyber-bullying

I watched Amanda Todd’s tragic video message today. Exactly one month and eight days after it was first posted and only five days after she committed suicide. Words can’t possibly express how it makes me feel. But that’s irrelevant anyway. What’s far more important than expressing our feelings and condolences in my opinion is whatRead… Read more »

History of open source in U.S. government

Gunnar Hellekson, Technology Strategist for Red Hat’s U.S. Public Sector Group, presents a timeline of how open source software has been used in the U.S. government created by tying together data about software the government has released as open source. Originally posted as Open source in U.S. government in five minutes on opensource.com and licensedRead… Read more »

Rap Genius: Coming to your enterprise

By BobGourley With this post I want to lay out a way rap music is going to forever change the world of enterprise IT. Rap will have this impact on IT in many enterprises, but one of the biggest impacts, I predict, will be on the US Intelligence Community and in DoD. First some backgroundRead… Read more »

Of Cyber Doom, Dots, and Distractions

By SeanLawson On October 11, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave a speech on “Defending the Nation from Cyber Attack” to the Business Executives for National Security in New York City. On the whole, the speech was unremarkable. It repeated what have become the standard, policy-maker talking points about cyber threats. Recently, these have comeRead… Read more »

2012 Recorded Future User Conference

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 »

What if we let ordinary citizens represent Australia on social media for tourism purposes?

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 »

Vindicated

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: Catherine Norman, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University

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 »