Permission taken

Well worth listening or watching this talk from Dan Gillmor: Once, personal technology and the Internet meant that we didn’t need permission to compute, communicate and innovate. Now, governments and tech companies are systematically restricting our liberties, and creating an online surveillance state. In many cases, however, we’re letting it happen, by trading freedom forRead… Read more »

How Do You Define Success!

My insight: your success can be measured by your failures to begin with or by your wisdom to learn from those who failed. Success by luck will not sustain when life event change its course. How do you define success is up to you entirely! Your success is your personal standards, goals, and expectations. IRead… Read more »

Strategising digital engagement

Do you need a digital engagement strategy to get it right? Perhaps you don’t, but it can’t not help, surely. Start with a vision. What do we want to achieve? Where do we want to end up? Pick an arbitrary date in the future – say 2015 – and imagine how you’d like things toRead… Read more »

Assessment on the User Defined Operational Picture: The Holy Grail of DoD IT

By ChrisScott There’s nothing COMMON about the operational picture any more! We are currently in the throws of change – shifting a legacy force structure capable of fighting two strategic wars at one time, to a leaner, more agile force projecting power through “expeditionary warfare”. As we adjust to this significant refocus, the idea ofRead… Read more »

How You Lead – From A Pragmatic Perspective

I want to share with you some recent leadership articles on my website. The content is practical and usable. Leading Towards Your Vision The importance of having a vision towards which you are leading your employees and how to define vision. What do you want your organization to look like? What is the culture? WhatRead… Read more »

RIVA Staying Connected Networking & Charity Event

RIVA Solutions, Inc. (RIVA) invites you to Staying Connected at Chima in Tyson’s Corner on April 17, 2013. Mix and mingle with 150+ of your favorite government and industry partners at the Federal Contracting Networking and Charity Event of the season. When: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 I 5:30-8:30 PM Where: Chima l Tyson’s Favorite WateringRead… Read more »

It’s Not About You

A Highlight from the upcoming NAGC Communications School. The foundation of any good communication is a clear message that resonates with the target audience. But if a message is not clear, the story the media tells may not be the one you want to tell. Don’t miss Jennifer Miller, senior counselor of Rockford Gray LLC,Read… Read more »

3 April CTOvision Podcast with Chris Biow of MarkLogic

By Ryan Kamauff In this podcast I interviewed Chris Biow, Federal CTO, VP of MarkLogic. MarkLogic offers a new generation database technology capable of handling any data, at any volume, in any structure. Organizations around the world rely on MarkLogic’s enterprise-grade technology to get to better decisions faster. Chris gave offered great insight into theRead… Read more »

Our regressive web

Ryan Holiday writes in Our Regressive Web: We’re regressing because we’re so focused on the new that we forgot the importance of the old. The tech press is too busy chattering about other “innovations” like retargeting, paywalls, native advertising. Except those changes are at the margins—at best. And because of that distraction or lack ofRead… Read more »