While in high school, my grandfather suffered from a stroke. A social, fast-talking, and brilliant civil engineer, my grandfather recovered slowly and continued to feel isolated by his new circumstances. In moments of reflection, he discovered the willingness to try on new skills, including using the web. Although bright in many capacities, my grandfather, likeRead… Read more »
Good work relationships are critical for success in management. I don’t think I could have accomplished anything of substance if I didn’t have that going for me. My strategy for that is pretty simple, so I thought I’d share: Go at their pace. If your co-worker wants coffee, have coffee. If they prefer happy hour,Read… Read more »
It is amazing to watch how quickly things can change once a key leadership change – of mind or person – occurs in a government department. In the last four weeks Australia has gone from having no digital diplomats, lagging the world, to having four (@AusAmbUSA, @AusHCIndia@AusAmbJP and @DubesAustralia) – hopefully with many more toRead… Read more »
We were practicing stories defining what we had done for others, when a marketeer pointed out that we were talking about previous engagements, not the people we supposedly would be talking to. The marketeer wanted to fashion a way to talk about the goodness of what was going to happen to the next guy. That’sRead… Read more »
Deanna Pogorelc (Cleveland, OH) — Last summer, when regenerative medicine company Stem Cell Theranostics went through the StartX accelerator program at Stanford University along with one other biotech company, the team members realized that many aspects of their experience were much different than those of the other companies. For example, they weren’t moving as quicklyRead… Read more »
I am an avid follower of everything technology and trends, but am tired of hearing about cloud, mobile, and social computing. It’s time to get over it with the agenda of the past and get on with it with the future of technology. Here is my “Technology Forecast 2013” with the top 8 trends IRead… Read more »
Why did you buy the phone you chose? Here are today’s top tech stories! Internal Apple survey on Android v iPhone (from 2011) – While most of Apple’s case against Samsung is claiming that Samsung design choices made it hard for users to discriminate, and internal Apple study from back in 2011 (when the GalaxyRead… Read more »
The core assumption of engagement applications is that people will do an activity consistently and repeatedly if you just structure the experience and incentivize it correctly — even if it’s asinine. The justification for civic engagement apps can be similarly foolish: people will perform a potentially beneficial activity that they aren’t currently doing if weRead… Read more »
The Information Services department at the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) headquarters in Washington, D.C., is seeking to streamline the online content found on AFGE local websites with content and updates from AFGE National. This product, named LaborWeb will considerably simplify the process of creating a website for a local, as well as createRead… Read more »
Zetta Offers Reliable Offsite Backup During a Disaster Author: Nick Mueller, Zetta.net When the local news starts reporting that a tropical storm or hurricane will make landfall near your town, do you know how to protect your company’s IT assets? If you do, congrats! This post isn’t for you. If not, here are some suggestions.Read… Read more »