Here’s a post from one of our local Community Partners for the 2012 NCDD conference, the Center for Ethical Leadership… At the Center for Ethical Leadership, we often talk about “Leadership by asking compelling questions.” When we work in communities to bring different people together and build their collective leadership capacity to address critical issues,Read… Read more »
Some of you may have noticed something new lately on Twitter. Following in the same footsteps as Facebook and Google+ cover photos, Twitter is now offering something similar called header images. According to NBC’s Today, “There’s now a huge header image that runs across the top, sort of like the banner image that Facebook usersRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Social Engineering in a Flow Chart. I’ve been writing about social media risk quite a bit recently, and now this Washington Post article details one aspect: hackers using social engineering (what some in the business call a “chair-to-keyboard interface error“) to intiaite cyber attacks. Social Media Blurring. Twitter adopts some Facebook design language.Read… Read more »
By BobGourley Crucial Point provides research and analysis via our CTOvision and CTOlabs outlets and via several informative community-focused newsletters. We also provide informative community-focused White Papers and support a wide range of clients with focused research. We write on a wide-range of technology concepts and capabilities including Big Data, Cloud Computing, Security, Mobility, BYODRead… Read more »
Last week a pair of public servants published a couple of thought provoking blog posts; it was a conversation I felt I needed to get in on. =========================== Kent, It’s perfectly natural to question the path your on; I do it all the time. I can’t speak to your political views online (you probably shouldn’tRead… Read more »
Okay, so the stats of the #ourday event tells one story but there is so much more to tell. What was it? It was a chance to see what local government did over a 24-hour period. A load of unglamorous unheralded tasks across the 700 services that your council does to help improve people’s lives.Read… Read more »
Fixing the internet connection. Original post
People look for what to expect before they try something new. They want us to signal a level of excitement, clues to what is good, something they can believe in. When was the last time you met a car salesman as exciting as a car commercial? “But I was taught to listen to the customer…”Read… Read more »
The following post contains: swearing, passion, grenade throwing and fire. You have been warned. Yesterday, while out smoking, someone said ‘it doesn’t sit well with my civic heart’ and thumped their chest. They weren’t wearing a suit. As it happens, they were wearing jeans and trainers. But they own a suit. Do a quite aRead… Read more »
By BobGourley With this post CTOvision is announcing the new CTOvision Weekly Analytical Report. This report provides insights and information on emerging technologies for analysis, use cases these technologies are being applied to, and requirements/gaps that enterprises need new technologies to address. If you are an analyst or provide technologies that support analysts please signRead… Read more »