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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Apropos of nothing in particular and to take a brief break from grading research papers from my University of Maryland class I teach, I was again reminded of one of the problems I have with signature lines from emails (have I mentioned this before?). Many people have a permanent signature that has some generic sign-off [...]
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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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I have been giving a lot of thought lately about the impact of technology being integrated into everything. In a separate post, I will talk more about that, but until I get that written, one of my students in my Syracuse University class on CIO on “CIO’s and the Global Enterprise”, wrote an interesting discussion [...]
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