For all those who are near the Washington Convention Center today and tomorrow there is an interesting conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization, http://govcloudconference.com/Events/2011/Home.aspx, Best of all, they reached back into ancient history, and asked me to moderate a panel Friday, September 9th, from 10:15 – 11:15, entitled Moving Into the Cloud – Practical Experience. We [...]
Previously, I had written about a class at George Washington University to which the professor, Dr. Robert McCreight, invites me to be a guest lecturer on cyber-security from time to time. I posted a copy of my slides then and do so again here: George Washington University Slides on Cyber-Security I wanted in this entry to [...]
Tags: cyber-security·department of transportation·fisma·George washington university·robert mccreight·situational awareness·whack-a-mole
Every year or so I am lucky to be invited by Dr. Robert McCreight who teaches a graduate class on National Security and Technology to be a guest lecturer on Cybersecurity. Since the classes I teach at the University of Maryland and Syracuse University are on-line distance learning, it is always a treat for me [...]
Tags: cybersecurity·distance learning·George washington university·john mueller·ohio state university·robert mccreight·syracuse university·University of Maryland University College
Francis Rose is a radio host for Federal News Radio, 1500am, http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=16. Francis has a show called In Depth which is broadcast from 1pm – 3pm every day. The focus of the show as the title suggests is to look at topics that have been in the news but taking a deeper examination. On Friday’s [...]
This morning in the Washington Post there was a column discussing the regular transition of political appointees, http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/fedcoach/2011/02/political-appointee-merry-go-round.html?hpid=smartliving. For those of you are are thinking of becoming a political appointee or wonder about the process, it is worth reading. In December, 2008, I wrote a column about what I learned from personally being a political [...]
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I have been spending time this afternoon working on my UMUC Contemporary Topics in Informatics class. One of the topics my students have been commenting on relates to information sharing. One of the questions I have posed is why are some information sharing efforts successful and some failures. A student wrote: “Who has time to [...]
Tags: dashboards·information sharing·Jeff Jonas·knowledge management·powertek corporation·UMUC·us department of transportation·vivek kundra
This morning I was discussing with some partners how to write winning proposals. I seemed to remember that I had talked before on this blog about proposals but upon searching around, found the only other time was in fact my first post where I provided anecdotes but not brilliant insight, http://www.ourownlittlecorner.com/2009/06/08/first-post/. So, while recognizing that [...]
I often refer to Leadership as being the ability to get people to do things when you are not in the room. For most of my professional career I did not particularly think about the differences between management and leadership. I was not in a position where it mattered particularly; I was always ‘in the [...]
Tags: cio·Clinger-Cohen·leadership·management·powertek corporation·shelley metzenbaum·us department of transportation
In my previous entry regarding Cloud Computing, I discussed briefly one of the major reasons why organizations are turning to the cloud, saving costs. I pointed out some of the issues involved in achievable that goal. While I also consider the possibility of cost savings associated with Cloud Computing important, I believe other implications are [...]
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The Cloud Computing freight train roars on, if not with a lot of motion, at least with a lot of noise and tumult. I have been part of a number of panels over the last few months which focused on the subject of Cloud Computing, the current state of the’art’, and as usual what barriers [...]
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