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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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Does the Federal IT Dashboard Come With a Decoder Ring?

July 8, 2009

Major kudos to the country’s new CIO, Vivek Kundra for setting a vision for open and transparent information and getting right to work.  The amount of time between talking about his vision and starting to execute on it with this Federal IT Dashboard has been weeks, not months or years.  I thought government was supposed to be slow?  Not in this case. Given the speed and the fact that the dashboard is labeled “beta,” I ...

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3 CIO Lessons from Obama’s First 100 Days

April 29, 2009

Today marks President Obama’s 100th day in office.  Gallup reports that Obama’s 63% approval rating is the best since Carter’s early approval rating in 1977 (the highest was JFK’s 74% in 1961; CNN’s take).   Americans have used the first 100 days as a predictor of Presidential success ever since FDR’s barrage of New Deal programs.  NPR even has an Obama Tracker that has been documenting domestic, economic and foreign policy milestones since the President ...

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