Tales from the Technoverse

  • Advice Needed for Federal IT Stories This Week

    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…

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  • Lessons From a Political CIO by Dan Mintz CIO, Department of Transportation

    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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  • A Passing Thought About Knowledge Management Systems

    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…

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  • Writing Winning Proposals

    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, https://www.ourownlittlecorner.com/2009/06/08/first-post/. So, while recognizing that…

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  • On Leadership

    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…

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  • Four Negative Rules of Life

    In todays complex world it seems that many of us are looking for structure and guidance on how to make decisions. Years ago I remember reading (or hearing) about four negative rules which if in their explicit form or derived implication deal with all decisions that we might face. I hope everyone enjoys my contribution…

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  • WikiLeaks

    Since the latest set of releases associated with US diplomacy through WikiLeaks there has been endless commentary on all aspects of the leaks. I have read through many of the comments and columns and been thinking about whether I had any particularly new insights to offer. My conclusion is that I do not and therefore…

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  • Run Lola Run, Brief Comments

    Finished Run Lola Run, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/run_lola_run/, Lola Rennt (literally Lola runs). I guess this is one of those films I had to see in the theatre to really appreciate rather than my usual 20-30 minutes at a time on the elliptical walker down in the basement. Got high marks on Rotten Tomatoes, I remember the noise…

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  • Thoughts on Tron Legacy

    I sometimes reserve weekend and/or holiday mornings for seeing movies my wife, Ellen, will not see with me. There is no particular rhyme or reason as to which movies she is interested in going with me to see and those not, with the one mild exception perhaps of quality – the lower the quality the…

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  • Brief Thoughts On Security and Other IT Policies

    I am finishing up grading final papers for my Syracuse University class on security policy. Each semester I find I learn a great deal from reading the papers and interacting with the students about them. I have drawn three conclusions about policy creation from my past experience at the Department of Transportation, modified slightly from…

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