Dennis McDonald's Weekly Top Ten

For a given week this list shows the most popular Managing Technology posts.

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Whom Do You Trust to Augment YOUR Reality?

There’s no doubt in my mind the cloud-based services can help us deal with the major events, but I think we will have to wait a lot longer for the butterfly wings.

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Transparency Is Not An End In Itself

While data generated by a government program should be readily available and shareable among its target constituencies and members of the public, I also believe that resources devoted to improving the transparency of a government program should also promote the accomplishment of that program’s goals.

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Graphic Display of Terms in Obama's Executive Order Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information

In a vain attempt to locate on the role .pdf files will be playing in this I performed a quick and dirty Wordle analysis:

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Has Google Lost Control of Glass?

What drives me crazy about the debates around Google Glass is the groups of people who keep on saying, “Society will adjust. People will get used to it. It’s no different than what we have now with omnipresent security cameras and smartphones in every pocket.”

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Utilities and Cable Companies: What's a Monopoly To Do?

For me to bottom line is simple: government regulation, initially implemented to protect public interest, is now viewed by many as protecting special interests instead. This needs to change.

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How Our Increasing Digital Connectedness Improves Government Program Evaluation

There will always be a need to conduct formal evaluations of how well government programs perform. Such evaluations must take into account the complexity of programs and the need to distinguish among short term and long term impacts and the intervening conditions that also impact program effectiveness. Evaluation methodologies will need to take all this into consideration, all of which requires careful planning and appropriate resources. Improving connectivity of government employees and members of the public also offers the potential for making such evaluations more timely and direct. With careful planning, this improved connectivity also offers improvements in how programs are managed.

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More Data, Please - and Don’t Hold the Pickle

Robert Scoble’s explanation of why his employer is paying him to fly around promoting Google Glass makes perfect sense, especially this point:

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Just Measuring Government Performance Is Not Enough

The Washington Post article this past week Why not measure how well government works? asks the reasonable question, “Why aren’t more government programs evaluated?” Also asked, is “Why aren’t government programs that are evaluated and found wanting just canceled?”

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Should Local Governments Rely on Facebook for Public Communications?

Am I being overly sensitive since I gave up using Facebook myself and don’t recommend it to others? Or should the fact that so many people use Facebook be the real deciding factor?

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