I have a thesis I would like to try on you.
In the IT world, like in many other human endeavors, the things that get measured get improved. And the things that don’t get measured are easy to ignore. So, when the world’s largest IT enterprise (the US federal government) starts measuring IT differently we...
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I’ve mentioned before that I run my small business, Crucial Point LLC, primarily by leveraging cloud computing capabilities. With this post I’ll mention a book that helped me do that: Google Apps: The Missing Manual.
This book does a great job at capturing the core functionality of Google Apps. However, no book can keep up...
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I previously mentioned the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference, which was held 17-21 May 2009. I took lots of notes from the conference: enough, in fact, to fuel this blog for a long long time. My associate Ryan Kamauff took even more (and more relevant) notes on the sessions there, and both of us kicked the...
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What do you think of when you hear the word Adobe? Many folks immediately think of the open standard Portable Document Format (PDF) that was created by Adobe Systems for document exchange. PDFs are everywhere and so is Adobe’s free PDF readers, so it is commonly the first thing that comes to mind.
But things...
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Today’s news on Vivek Kundra’s role in the federal space made me think of another CTO, Yuvi Kochar. Yuvi, the CTO of the Washington Post, is a great connector of CTOs who leads the informal collective of the Washington Area CTO Roundtable. Although I had heard Vivek speak a time or...
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Carahsoft is a fantastic company in Reston, VA run by the hardest working, most modest, ethical, business leader I have ever met. His behind the scenes style means he would probably not want me to mention much more about him, but if I have your curiosity up about them you can read more...
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On Wednesday 28 Jan 2009 at 10am Eastern I’ll be on CIO Talk Radio with one of the stars of the global technology community, Vint Cerf.
The topic we will be discussing is cloud computing and the next technology revolution in the US. Vint is fantastically qualified to discuss this topic, and I’m honored to...
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This is an update of an article I published last August in Social Computing Magazine (a great enterprise Web2.0 site edited by Dion Hinchcliffe). A key goal of this piece has been to encourage more in the national security world to use capabilities like Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogs, and of course Twitter. If you...
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Technologists in and out of government have been very excited about the work of the Obama transition team, especially the work of their technologists. A group known as the TIGR (Technology, Innovation and Government Reform) Team has brought some of the best and brightest minds together to strategize and impact the action plans...
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Have you ever heard of an Unconference?
Have you ever heard of a BarCamp?
If these are new terms please read on, there are some important aspects of these concepts that CTOs should be familiar with. And there is a specific BarCamp Unconference coming up 27-28 March in the DC area focused on Gov2.0 that I’ll...
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