Securing the Cloud @FedScoop CyberSecurity Summit

This panel featured some heavy hitters from government and industry. This was moderated by Suprotik Ghose, Principal CyberSecurity Strategist, Microsoft. Mike Krieger, CIO of the Army BG Steven Spano, Director of Communications, Air Combat Command, Langley AFB Responsible for operations and communications of 100k Airmen @ Air Combat Control Jeff Casazza, Director of Security, IntelRead… Read more »

Seven Breakthrough Sentiment Analysis Scenarios

Could sentiment analysis — the automated mining of attitudes, opinions, and emotions from text, speech, and database sources — have foretold the demise of Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak? Can this fast-emerging technology and discipline predict the movement of Oracle’s share price based on online and social reactions to company and market news? Could it quantifyRead… Read more »

The Fed Coach: What fed workers can learn from Lincoln: An interview with Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer, an expert on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, is the senior vice president for external affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has authored, co-authored and edited 36 books and published hundreds of articles. Holzer also serves as chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. WhatRead… Read more »

Ask The Gov Expert: Greg Rothwell (former) CPO, DHS

Well we have heard what Dr. Nick Nayak, CPO, DHS had to say at the recent GovUp! Now let’s take a look at what Mr. Greg Rothwell, (former) CPO, DHS had to tell young govies! You gave us your questions…and we asked the Gov Expert! RaffertyWeiss Media (http://raffertyweiss.com/government-video-production/index.html) is a full-service creative video production company,Read… Read more »

Distraction

Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian: The biggest complaint, in both my Twitter sample and the expert essays, was about the quality of thinking in the online era. What the internet has done, say the dissenters, is damage our ability to concentrate for sustained periods. Being connected meant being constantly tempted to look away, to hopRead… Read more »

The Hierarchy of Needs for Social Media Evangelists

This post originally appeared on my external blog, “Social Media Strategery.” What do you need from your job to succeed? Good salary? Short commute? Work/life balance? Everyone has their own dealbreakers and must-haves – what’s important to one person may not matter to another. These variables differ greatly from profession to profession too. I rememberRead… Read more »

The $1 Trillion Federal IT Challenge

An interesting article by John Foley in Information Week on Feb 15 … what do you think? Is this doable? The CEOs of IBM, Dell, and other tech companies say the U.S. government can reap huge savings from IT-driven initiatives, but their ambitious plan has virtually no chance of success. By John Foley, InformationWeek FebruaryRead… Read more »

Lazy Journalist Revealer. This. Is. Awesome.

Everybody keeps thinking that transparency and improved access to content is something that is only going to affect government, or, maybe some corporations. I’ve tried to argue differently in places like this blog post and in Taylor and I’s chapter in The New Journalist. Here’s a wonderful example of how new tools could start toRead… Read more »