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Co-Creation and Government
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 Government services Changing the relationship of Government to its citizen customers and because of that potentially revising what exactly Government…
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We Are Cornhole
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…
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WFED – Today at 3pm
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 people select three stories for the week which they feel are the most important impacting on the Federal Government. As…
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Data Transparency Summit – April 29
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 “Industry Implements the Data Transparency Transformation”. The other panelists will be Dan Chenok and Trey Hodgkins, the moderator will be…
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The Spread of Technology
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 most of the semester looking at how an organization can optimize developing Technology internally and also looking at the implications…
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Passover Seder 2014
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…
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Everything in Government is Based on Data
(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,…
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Still More Proof That the Bob Newhart Finale Was the Best Ever
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: Hockey games Baseball games (and wasn’t the Nationals season opener something) The Big Bang Theory (as I tell people I was not…
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Big Data in Agriculture
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
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Nationals Season Starts Tomorrow
Two very nice articles about Nationals players (we will ignore the fact that Sports Illustrated for the second straight year picked the Nationals to win the World Series since we know how well that turned out last year: One about Strasburg: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/nationals-journal/wp/2014/03/30/stephen-strasburg-i-think-the-sky-is-the-limit-with-this-club/ And a somewhat longer one talking about what a great person Ian Desmond…
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