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Entries in Energy (8)
Six Ways Local Governments Can Use Social Media to Promote Energy Conservation
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:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Expertise Management, Social Media, Conservation, Energy, eGovernment
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Using Grassroots "Collaboration" to Promote Local Energy Conservation
This post discusses how social networking can be used to help promote local energy conservation.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Social Networking, Social Media, Conservation, Energy, Politics
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Can Social Media Help Driving-based Tourism When Gas Prices Rise?
What happens to driving-based tourism when gas prices rise?
Dennis D. McDonald
in Social Networking, Advertising, Social Media, Energy, Tourism
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Incorporating Social Networking Systems with Mergers & Acquisition Planning
In 2003 I published an article titled Mergers & Acquisitions: What Executives Should Know about I.T. It was based on management experiences I had on a multi-year post-merger project that consolidated the data and software of two large public energy utilities.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Social Networking, Social Media, Strategy, Energy, Consolidation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mergers & Acquisitions
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The "Who" and "What" of Technological Illiteracy
Definitely worth listening to is Command Line’s December 19 podcast technological illiteracy among our leaders. His theme: we need to do something about the lack of knowledge our leaders have of how technology operates and impacts our lives.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Governance, Ethics, Security, Technology, Homeland Security, Conservation, Energy, Technological Literacy
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Using Social Networking to Support Local Energy Management and Conservation
Thanks to Brian Magierski via a Twitter message I found out about a ZDNet video interview with Pat Lawicki, the CIO of PG&E in San Francisco. Pat is a former client of mine from when she was the CIO at the energy utility NiSource.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Social Networking, Social Media, Homeland Security, Conservation, Energy
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Dow Chemical CEO's Speech on National Manufacturing Policy
On C-SPAN Radio over the weekend I heard an interesting speech given by the CEO of Dow Chemical titled Energy, Manufacturing and the Future of the American Economy.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Industry Analysis, Manufacturing, Policy, Energy
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Web 2.0 and the Manhattan Project
While listening to a podcast of a recent interview with Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, I was struck by the question, “What if the Manhattan Project had been conducted using the collaborative and social networking tools we now have?”
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Project Management, Social Networking, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Wiki, History, Energy
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