Nominating Technologies For Review At CTOlabs.com

Our sister site, CTOlabs.com, is a place where we capture information, evals, concepts and references of use to technologists. We write far more about specific technologies and companies there, which allows us to keep CTOvision.com focused on more timely topics. CTOvision.com is for current context on tech, CTOlabs.com is for reference and examination of concepts.Read… Read more »

How New York City Government Is (and Isn’t) Using Social Media

I sat on a panel this past Friday with GovLoopers Sarah Kaufman from New York City’s MTA and Mark Drapeau from Microsoft as well as Gale Brewer, a City Council Member in New York City and Rachel Sterne, the Chief Digital Officer for New York City and well known for her brilliant Road Map forRead… Read more »

Bintliff on the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act

Professor Barbara A. Bintliff of the University of Texas School of Law has posted The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act Is Ready for Legislative Action, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Professor Bintliff — who is the Reporter for the Uniform Electronic LegalRead… Read more »

It’s All About Memory

I recently pubished a post on personal mastery in your current job vs moving up: https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/moving-up-the-peter-principle-and-job-mastery Today, I read something that suggests that rather than deliberate practice, your memory capacity is actually the key difference between good and great: http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/10/06/key-to-greatness-is-working-memory-not-practice/30110.html What do you think GovLoopers? Could the hype about memory correct and if so, shouldRead… Read more »

24 hours

In conclusion in the interim: there is absolutely no point in worrying about what might or might not be. I might be out of a job at some point in the next 12 months. I might not. Some of the fear and insecurity is being generated by an unfortunate mix of incredible stress at homeRead… Read more »

Santa Cruz creates tech plan, looks at broadband, open data

The Santa Cruz City Council is working to link up the city’s disparate technology efforts to create greater transparency and improve service delivery. A new three-part initiative aims to help local technology companies grow while centralizing public works through better use of technology. The initative is the result of a task force created by theRead… Read more »

Goodbye Telephone

It has been exactly one month since my wife and I decided to join the 1 in 7 Canadians (or two million homes) without a landline. The funny thing is, I completely forgot I ditched it until I was reminded by stumbling across a recent article on the topic. Apparently by the end of 2014,Read… Read more »

Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Simplified

BY ADMIN ON OCTOBER 17, 2011 · 0 COMMENTS[EDIT] Http://LeonardSipes.Com I help run a variety of government websites that produce high numbers of page views. After multiple years of success, and after helping others create and market websites, I received a challenge. “Your success is partially based on the fact that you’re a .gov,” aRead… Read more »