This 2011 book by Dr. John Boik proposes two systems that would assist and encourage mass citizen cooperation, allowing citizens to claim and exercise their full power. The first system is a financial pool from which the socially-responsible businesses of the future can be funded. The second system is a people’s lobby, which would allowRead… Read more »
My thanks to Mack Sigman and Jay Dennis of ActioNet, and to Greg Valentine of WINS for being guests on the February 25 episode of my “Collaboration Tech Talk” Show! Here are some additional reference links on SDPS as covered in this interview: Planning Services, and Software Assurance Topics SharePoint Deployment Planning Services Brochure AnyRead… Read more »
Just a quick post here to get you all on board with something that I’ve been working on and think will be very cool but at the same time very useful. The Project: SXSW is a massive event taking place in Austin, TX next week. The Interactive portion of the event will bring together tech,Read… Read more »
Lately I have been using the GSA Schedule Sales Query often to help clients conduct research regarding sales made using GSA Schedule contracts. This tool is incredibly useful in providing historical sales data across different categories from the past five years. I wanted to provide an overview of how the system works and some possibleRead… Read more »
I was sitting at home when it happened. There, in the audience of the Kodak Theater was someone I recognized. Luke Matheny, director of God of Love. And he had just won the won the 2011 Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short. Tall, with a mess of wild hair, he’s easy to pick out ofRead… Read more »
The difference between a great sales manager and a great salesman is the difference between a wagon master and a gunfighter. The wagon master has to get as many as he can to the destination. The gunfighter is the icon of individual contributor. Most salesmen cannot build a compelling handout. They can’t build a movingRead… Read more »
TamiMcEvoy.com Everyone is talking about ‘Open Government’ but what exactly is Open Government? For me, it has to be more than government simply publishing public data, yes, we want to be able to scrutinize the data, and yes we want to see where the tax money is getting spent and yes, we want to knowRead… Read more »
In my previous post about online listening, I mentioned RepKnight, a soon to launch lightweight tool for tracking keywords across social media services. In this guest post, RepKnight’s Lyra McKee talks about getting people’s attention online without irritating them. Social media is like the Internet in 1999; no one’s quite sure how best to useRead… Read more »
My gosh there is a lot going on. Republicans – REPUBLICANS(!) who were in charge of America’s prison system are warning Canada not to follow the Conservatives plan on prisons, the Prime Minister has renamed the government, after himself and my friends at Samara had in Toronto the Guardian’s Emily Bell to talk wikileaks andRead… Read more »
I usually like to start these blog posts with a light-hearted introduction, but this subject is too serious for anything less than brutal and direct honesty. More than 41,000 Pennsylvanians lost their health care this week, and the responsibility lies squarely at the feet of Gov. Tom Corbett. AdultBasic was a program that provided workingRead… Read more »