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Top 5 CIO Tweets of the Week – August 21, 2009

August 21, 2009

I’m posting this weeks Top 5 list from Beijing as I get ready for the CTO Forum Conference.  Sorry if my writing seems a bit jet-lagged and for the low volume (read: none) of Tweets.  China still seems a bit put off by Twitter. [tweetlist:3388084576] [tweetlist:3392741191] 1-2. The first post set of a series of conversations about the differences between a list of IT thought leaders on Twitter and a list of CIOs on Twitter ...

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Top 5 CIO Tweets of the Week – August 14, 2009

August 14, 2009

This week’s #CIO tweets were overshadowed by John C. Dvorak’s assertion that our nation’s CIO, Vivek Kundra, is a fraud – at least his resume might be. You will need to make up you own mind on that one. [tweetlist:3266652940] 1.  I have been a PC Magazine reader for years, but never got into reading John C. Dvorak’s rants.  Never could really understand half of what he was saying.  His Tweet Wednesday grabbed my attention ...

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Professional Identity Online – Are You a Dog?

August 12, 2009

Peter Steiner published his infamous “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” cartoon in 1993.  This mental image for me was just a joke – until recently.  For the most part, you know the people who email you, link up with on Facebook or LinkedIn.  Those you don’t recognize, you just write off as spam or a mistake. Today, Twitter is buzzing with an expose penned by John C. Dvorak, of PC Mag editorial ...

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Top 5 CIO Tweets of the Week – August 7, 2009

August 10, 2009

Instead of cranking out #followfriday all day last Friday, I thought I would try something new by listing some of my favorite #CIO tweets from the week. Hope you like them and find some new follows as a result. Let me know what you think. [tweetlist:3140019138] Diamond has a few clients who are using Agile techniques in Web-centric projects with some good success. I was looking for some adoption data and found a Forrester survey ...

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“None” is Not a Social Media Strategy

July 22, 2009

Saying “No” to social media is a big mistake, especially if the decision was driven by the CIO.  Over the last few weeks, I have spoken to two CIOs, one in financial services and one in the public sector, who say their organizations have a “no social media” policy. I agree that there are many reasons to limit what your employees post on Facebook or LinkedIn.  That said, shutting off the spigot entirely misses out ...

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Are There Any Real CIOs in the Twitterverse?

June 4, 2009

That’s the question I set out to answer. I’ll tell you about the frustrating journey, which might be useful for anyone trying to find a particular interest group.  And I’ll tell you what I found (and am sharing in detail at my CIO Twitter Dashboard). Is There Anybody Out There? I have sorted through literally hundreds of Twitter-related sites and applications looking for the best place or places to find professional groups.  Hundreds of sites ...

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Is the Cloud a Key to Sustainability?

May 20, 2009

The MIT Industrial Liaison Program holds an annual conference for its sponsors focused on technology and telecommunications.  This year’s event had excellent breadth, featuring Esther Dyson, the CTO of Blue State Digital (developers of Obama’s online social media platform), the director of MIT’s game development lab in Singapore and several others.  The one presentation that really got me thinking was by the IT Energy Coordinator for MIT’s own infrastructure, Laxmi Rao. Her presentation centered on ...

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Do CIOs Develop Leaders Like NCAA Coaches?

May 5, 2009

by Chris Curran, with research by Michael Mariani I am very passionate about coaching team sports and have been a basketball player most of my life. So, I read with great interest a recent MIT Sloan Management Review article, What Can Managers Learn From College Basketball? There are three very interesting points: 1.  That the majority of new jobs are sourced through “weak ties,” not close relationships. (I never heard this before, but it makes ...

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Stop the Web 2.0 Flood

April 30, 2009

I recently spent a few days with several CIOs and IT leaders at an MIT Center for Information Systems Research briefing.  Prof. Wanda Orlikowski led a discussion around some early work exploring the uses and value of Web 2.o technologies in the enterprise.  For purposes of our conversation, we defined Web 2.0 technologies as those that enrich connections between people (a much simpler, but consistent take on Tim O’Reilly’s version).  Specifically, we discussed the use ...

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Twitter: SOA in Action

April 2, 2009

Talk about incredible innovation – look at the application and service ecosystem around Twitter.  Here are just some examples: On-line Commentary During an Off-line Event – The NY Times developed a beautiful visualization of popular words in Twitter posts during the Super Bowl. Real-time Trends – Twistory streams real-time Twitter posts filtered to let you see what people like, hate, etc. Local Tweeting – Pepsi came out with an impressive app during the South-by-Southwest events ...

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