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Ambient Knowledge

August 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · CIO, education, technology

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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School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, Upstate CIO Conference

April 14th, 2010 · No Comments · cloud computing, government 2.0, presentations

This coming Friday, April 16, the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University is hosting a conference to bring together CIO’s and Academic leaders to discuss some of the current issues facing IT. The conference welcome describes the nature of the conference pretty clearly: “Welcome to the first Upstate CIO Conference, where CIOs from Upstate New [...]

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Management of Change Conference, May 23-25, Philadelphia, Be There or Be Unchanged

March 6th, 2010 · No Comments · government business

This year I was lucky enough to be allowed to be one of the Workshop Co-Chairs for the Management of Change Conference, sponsored by ACT-IAC; with two wonderful co-chairs Goldy Kamali, the Goddess of FedScoop!, and Valarie Burks, from the Department of Agriculture. In this entry I wanted to give a Workshop committee update, encouraging [...]

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The Big Bang Theory Hearts Firefly

February 9th, 2010 · No Comments · 2009 china solar eclipse, Entertainment, Firefly, Serenity, government business, movies, travel

For those who knew me when I was the CIO at the US Department of Transportation, you will know that I held a monthly lunch with a small band of fans of both the TV show Firefly, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_(TV_series), and the movie Serenity, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/serenity/. For references to this, see the end of the interview I gave [...]

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CIO Magazine Article On Cybersecurity

July 16th, 2009 · No Comments · cyber-security

The lead story in the July 1, 2009 issue of CIO Magazine deals with cyber-security. The Editor’s Letter headline is: “Whac-A-Mole” Approach to Security and contains the following paragraph: “It’s hard to imagine more appropriate imagery for our cover story (“Moving Target”) about the widespread frustration with mounting cybersecurity threats and the lack of an [...]

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