Cumulogic: A Team of former Sun Microsystems employees and a dynamic team of engineers passionate about cloud computing

I’ve been watching the incredible team of mission-focused technologists as form Cumulogic since my friend Bill Vass alerted me to their virtuous computing approaches in early 2011. Since then they have provided many updates on their website of their approach, partners, intent and technology. And technical marketing champion Laura Ventura of Cumulogic has supported myRead… Read more »

Should Local Governments Rely on Facebook for Public Communications?

Back when social media were just getting popular I was a strong supporter for government use especially in times of crisis or emergency. Going “where the people” are seemed a simple justification for why a government agency might want to use Facebook. Facebook is relatively cheap to get started, it provides a standardized platform, itRead… Read more »

Navy CIO: commercial clouds cheaper, FISMA Reform Passes House on 416-0 Vote and more

Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Report: US Smart Grid Cybersecurity Spending to Reach $7.25B by 2020 – a recent study by research firm Zpryme forecasts annual spending to reach $7.25B in 2020. The focus of this money will be on ICS and SCADA solutions. Via GreenTechMedia, more here. NavyRead… Read more »

Lessons Learned at the Longmont Colorado Hackathon

Last weekend I participated (as a volunteer) in the Longmont Hackathon, mainly because I’m good friends with Longmont’s webmaster, Susan Wolak. I helped judge the entries on the final day as well. I thought I would share a few of my thoughts. I enjoyed the experience a lot more than I thought I would. ItRead… Read more »

“See it Say it–Really?

It would be nice to say we live a truly wonderful country where all is well and good, but that’s not the reality. It would be nice to say we can trust the police and law enforcement to always do the right thing, but that is not reality anymore (too many rapists, cops that breakRead… Read more »

Rearranging the Briefing Room Chairs on the Bonaventure

Yesterday, my colleague joked on Twitter that his son had agreed to make the family lunches as part of his allowance, but the bread, mustard, and cheese sandwich from day one wasn’t exactly up to snuff. I joked back that he should institute a sandwich accountability framework and make a portion of his son’s allowanceRead… Read more »

Tips on Bidding for State and Local Government Contracts!

State Government Bids and RFPs are very tough to find. Contrary to the government bodies, that performs most investing in via GSA schedules, state and local bids can be found in an exceedingly nice range of sources throughout the net — on government websites, structure pages, third party contracted web-sites, and newspaper postings. What toRead… Read more »

Link roundup

I find this stuff so you don’t have to: From the centre and here to help Digital Britain 2 – why I don’t think it goes far enough Citizens Agenda – making local democracy more relevant MOOCs: A view from the digital trenches NovoEd, another Stanford MOOC startup, opens small-group learning services to public SoRead… Read more »

How 3 Cities Are Obtaining Citizen Input For Budgets

One of the most important actions a government body takes is the passage of a budget. A community’s priorities are reflected in their governmental budgets. In todays economic times budgeting at the local government level is not easy. Tough choices have to be made as to what items receive funding, what items are cut andRead… Read more »

Insights from the 4 April 2013 Government Big Data Forum: Part Two

On 4 April 2013, Carahsoft sponsored the Third Annual Government Big Data Forum. This post is the second in a series that seeks to capture key elements of the forum and keep the dialog going. This post captures a high level summary of our three keynote presentations. Kirit Amin kicked off the morning with greatRead… Read more »