In some fashion I see a thread between this morning’s story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/13/when-bullying-is-good-for-kids/?tid=up_next which talks about how bullying turns out to be good for the bully (well, duh) and this other morning’s story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/13/brazils-advice-to-world-cup-tourists-dont-scream-when-robbed/?tid=up_next which indicates… Bullying and the World Cup
The impact of mobile computing devices on Government can be divided into three areas of focus: Improving, or at least changing, the nature of IT infrastructure and organizational operations Revising the delivery and implementation of… Co-Creation and Government
Ellen and I try to visit Ellen’s parents in Hilton Head on a regular basis. They are really wonderful people, I am lucky to know them, and they are fun to be with (and visiting Hilton Head even if one does not play golf is pretty good also).
Lately we have switched back to driving from flying down taking the opportunity to see sights on the way that in the past we either drove by or flew over.
When we go next in June, we plan to see minor league baseball games both going there and coming home.
On with Francis Rose on WFED, on your AM radio dial at 1500 (for those of you who still realize you can get AM radio) today at 3pm. The format for the show is two… WFED – Today at 3pm
I am excited to have been invited to serve on a panel at the Data Transparency Summit tomorrow, April 29th, at Union Market. The panel which starts at 10:15 is an Industry Panel focusing on… Data Transparency Summit – April 29
I teach a graduate Capstone class at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) which focuses on the Strategic Management of Innovation & Technology. We look at what exactly strategic management is and then spend… The Spread of Technology
For those who read this blog – Hello? Hello? Knock knock, anyone there? – well, anyway, and for those who know Ellen and I well, you will realize as we come up on Passover that we do our own version of a Seder. While based on a standard Haggadah based approach, we typically add some kind of theme which leads to the readings we select to accompany the regular material. In addition, I have gotten in the habit of putting quotes on 3 x 5 cards associated with our theme. As we go around the room during the seder, each participant reads from their quote as well as their reading.
Over the years we have moved us made adjustments because of the size of the crowd, this year at 25. I used to sit at the end of one table, now both Ellen and I sit in the middle. Also when we started doing seder’s at our house we would have participants selected one after another around the table(s). When we recognized that this meant that the readings would tend to be in only part of the group for a period of time, we changed it to have the assigned participant/reader selected sort-of-randomly moving the conversation back and forth.
(this was originally posted on the Powertek Corporation blog at http://www.powertekcorporation.com/index.php/blog/162-everything-in-government-is-based-on-data)
Data.
Whether it is prefaced with “Big” or sometimes with “Open”, it is the lifeblood of government IT.
We talk about using data to do Business Analytics. We write about XML and XBRL standards. There is a famous saying that “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” In this month’s blog we will focus on how companies doing business with the Federal Government might dosomething about data standards.
So last night was the finale to the TV show, How I Met Your Mother.
As some of you know I only on a regular basis watch four TV ‘shows’ on a regular basis:
Still More Proof That the Bob Newhart Finale Was the Best Ever
Interesting article on the growing amount of information being collected, much of it by sensors and thus automatically generated, in Agriculture: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/american-farmers-confront-big-data-revolution/2014/03/29/186e93ae-b74f-11e3-9eb3-c254bdb4414d_story.html?algtrack=cfrec-1&tid=btm_rex_2