Tuesday
Jul052011
Lessons Learned Too Late Are Not Lessons
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 11:13AM Recently I received a comment on an old blog post from 2006 titled “Slide Presentation: ‘Expertise Management Systems’.”
Managing Technology
I help clients plan and manage technology related research, system development, strategy, and system consolidation projects. Since 2005 I’ve also been active with collaboration, web publishing, social media, blogging, and social networking tools and processes. Listed below are recent entries in the “managing technology” section of this website:
Entries in Expertise Management (43)
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 11:13AM Wednesday
Feb162011
CRS Report on Government Transparency Asks Right Questions But Doesn't Go Far Enough
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 03:35PM Back in February 2009 in Challenges Facing Recovery.gov and the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board I wrote the following about making Federal stimulus spending data more accessible and “transparent” to the public:
Saturday
Feb052011
Why "Best Practices" Won't Fix Federal IT
Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 07:37AM Federal Computer Week recently published my op-ed piece Why best practices won’t fix Federal IT. I’d be very interested in hearing from GovLoop members what they think of it.
Thursday
Dec092010
How Should U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra Institutionalize I.T. Best Practices?
Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 12:59PM This morning U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra released his ambitious 25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management. Here’s number 10:
Monday
Feb152010
Collaboration In Your Pocket Is Here
Monday, February 15, 2010 at 12:53PM
Updated on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 01:34PM by
Dennis D. McDonald
Okay, I don’t have an iPhone and I don’t use Lotus Connections, but I think this demo of Lotus Connections on the iPhone is really cool:
Friday
Sep112009
Promoting Technology Enabled Collaboration in Complex R&D Environments
Friday, September 11, 2009 at 08:04AM An important element in a successful R&D effort is effective collaboration. As the complexity of the research, development, and eventual adoption environments increases — as it does with large Federally funded R&D efforts — the importance of the sharing of information, ideas, and goals increases as well.
Friday
Aug282009
Twittering for Science Fiction Advice
Friday, August 28, 2009 at 06:45AM I’ve been reading a lot of history and non-fiction recently. I think I need a change. A good science fiction novel is just what the doctor ordered. But what novel?
Tuesday
Sep162008
Six Ways Local Governments Can Use Social Media to Promote Energy Conservation
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 09:40AM Here are six ways local governments can use social media to help promote energy conservation. If you think of more please comment below this post or send an email to ddmcd@yahoo.com:
Tuesday
Jun242008
How Much do People Need to Understand Technology to Manage It?
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 01:25AM Jeremiah Owyang’s post Gen Y Enter Stage Left, Baby Boomers Exit Stage Right got me to wondering how much people should understand about technology in order to manage it in an organization.
Wednesday
Jun042008
In Health Emergencies, One Knowledge Management System Cannot Rule Them All
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 12:45PM I received an email commenting on Social Networking and Elsevier’s “Grand Challenge” for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences. I had suggested that networked access to published health science authors would be useful in emergency situations where there is the need for rapid access to high quality health information from many different sources.