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OGI Conference: Recommended for enterprise CTOs in the federal space

June 26, 2009 By

The next big Gov2.0 event is the 21-22 July 2009 Open Government & Innovations Conference (OGI).  The list of speakers includes some of the greats from the federal IT scene, including: Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO Aneesh Chopra, Federal CTO Tim O'Reilly, Visionary of the Web2.0 movement David Weinberger, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School David Wennergren, ASD NII and DoD CIO Michael Wertheimer, CTO, ODNI Lovisa … [Read more...]

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Social Media and the National Security Professional

January 24, 2009 By

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 know someone you would like to encourage to use these sites please feel free to lift from this.  If you know of other sites or capabilities … [Read more...]

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I hope to see you at the Synergy Conference

August 4, 2008 By

The second annual Synergy Conference and expo will be held 12-15 August 2008 at Marco Island, FL.  Last year's conference provided a great way for participants to learn from each other and interact with speakers from both operational and intelligence backgrounds.   I sure enjoyed it. It was one of my last official events before leaving DIA.    I had a couple speaking parts, so I got to solicit feedback on my views of the future of technology, and I … [Read more...]

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Microsoft Surface uses Jet to accelerate demand

August 3, 2008 By

This is the third of three blog posts on technologies encountered during my visit to Redmond. This one is on Microsoft Surface. (First a note:  although this is about Surface, Microsoft also announced another hot capability called Sphere.  For more on that see the blog of the CTO of Microsoft's Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments- Lewis Shepherd) Microsoft Surface is something you may have heard about in the press. For those of us who … [Read more...]

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Convergence Context for Technologists

November 24, 2007 By

When CTOs think of the word convergence we usually associate it with old concepts like the convergence of voice, video and data onto common communications paths or the convergence of multiple devices into fewer devices.  These ideas are still very powerful and many of today's major concepts in IT, like unified communications, utility computing and even mashups are direct descendants of convergence ideas. But there is an even more powerful convergence … [Read more...]

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