The DoDIIS Conference Agenda is now up at the conference site, and it really looks to be a great one. The confernece will be great for technology leaders in government, technology providers from industry, and the mission-focused executive leadership who seeks to guide both. If you want to shape the future, come to the DoDIIS conference and see what secure enterprises with advanced analytical missions are up to. I've pasted the full agenda below, but … [Read more...]
FBI Database Search and Discovery Capability Called DIVS is Best In Class
April 15, 2011 By
I was recently treated to a demonstration of a mission-focused IT solution that made me proud of what technologists at FBI can do. What I saw was a best in class integration of search, discovery and analysis tools known as DIVS (Data Integration and Visualization System). DIVS includes a framework that allows multiple tools, COTS and GOTS, to interoperate in ways incredibly supportive of the most significant missions in the national security … [Read more...]
2011 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference
March 26, 2011 By
The 2011 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 1-5 May 2011 at the COBO at Detroit Michigan. This is always an exciting event for technologists enthused about continued improvement of mission capabilities. The conference is focused on the mission of the US DoD intelligence enterprise, but the many topics tackled at the event are of interest to technologists from a wide range of enterprises. For more see the official conference site … [Read more...]
Live from the Gov 2.0 Expo – Scaling and Managing Applications in the Cloud
May 26, 2010 By
Jesse Robbins of Opscode and O'Reilly Radar provided lessons learned from his experiences in cloud computing and scaling. Jesse was titled "Master of Disaster" with Amazon, responsible for Website Availability for every Amazon.com domain. Today, he's the CEO of Opscode, an infrastructure automation framework. Jesse is also the co-chair of the Velocity Conference, which is a conference for large scale, high trafficked websites. The lessons he … [Read more...]
Live from the Gov 2.0 Expo – Los Angeles in the Cloud: The Devil is in the Details
May 26, 2010 By
Randi Levin, CTO of the City of Los Angeles, John Zeberlein of CSC, and Deborah Hafford of Google Enterprise offered a wide open Q&A session into one of the nation's first cloud computing service deployments for a local government, Los Angeles. With roughly 30,000 email users moving from Novell Groupwise to Google Apps, this migration is not a simple process. Ms Levin's situation was such that the City of LA was in a total budget crisis. They … [Read more...]
Live from the Gov 2.0 Expo – How to Successfully Drive Traffic to Your Agency Website
May 25, 2010 By
Thalia Nierenberg and Eric Obenzinger of Google gave a very interesting talk on how to pull traffic to your site. As Google is the largest search provider, they would certainly know how to get website traffic. This session focused on AdWords and how it can help drive traffic. Google AdWords can provide flexible and scalable rates to enable Government agencies advertising efforts. Google AdWords - ads sold in auction form the maximum cost per … [Read more...]
Live Blog from Gov 2.0 Expo – Best Practices in Smartphone App Development
May 25, 2010 By
Bob and I are very interested in Smartphone app development, specifically Android development. Apps are being used across the world to enable work, play, and collaboration. App development and sales is a huge economical force. Governments are starting to use apps to make work easier - there are even military apps for the iPhone. Basically what I am saying is if you don't have an App, you are way behind. Since I am one of those without my own … [Read more...]
Live Blog from Gov 2.0 Expo – Introduction to Government Social Publishing with Drupal
May 25, 2010 By
Kieran Lal of Acquia led a great talk (adventure) on the use of government Social Publishing and Drupal. Kieran is the Drupal community adventure guide for Acquia, which provides commercial subscriptions for Drupal. He is a board member of the Drupal assocation, coordinates testing.drupal.org, and the Drupal security team. Recently he’s been involved in scaling Drupal.org, organized 900 attendee Drupalcon, and is driving the Drupal.org … [Read more...]
The promise and peril of the White House Open Government Directive
December 11, 2009 By
One of the great resources for tracking trends in Open Government, Gov2.0 and related activities is GovFresh.com, a site I recommend all visit and bookmark and track. GovFresh founder Luke Fretwell can be found on GovLoop, LinkedIn, Twitter. Luke recently asked several folks who track the Gov2.0 scene for thoughts on the recent Reactions to the White House Open Government Directive. The directive itself is well worth a read: Open Government … [Read more...]