One of the nice things about modern web standards and publishing technology is the ability we non-programmers now have to rapidly combine data from different web based sources through use of easy to handle scripting tools.
About twenty minutes into the January 31 edition of the Nature Podcast Nick Bostrom makes an interesting case for promoting scientific advances by focusing more scientific research on how to enhance scientists’ own thinking processes.
Project Blogs, Email, and Dual Collaboration Channels
Jim MacLennan, a seriously thoughtful corporate IT manager, recently published Update on Blogs as PM Tools - Tales from the Front Lines. There he made the following statements about the challenges of adopting blogs and wikis in support of project management:
Social Data Portability, Privacy, and DRM
When Bob Weber published his post-CES DRM 3.0 Has Arrived he made the point that, while DRM for music may be dying, the entertainment industry’s interest in Digital Rights Management is still quite strong. This got me to wondering whether this “next generation DRM” might have some relevance to current interest in social network portability.
Years of managing, studying, developing, consulting on, and using information technology have taught me about the realities of using technology for business advantage. Here are ten of these realities:
Here are 3 more of my favorite podcasts:
I can hear it now. I’m walking my dog this Saturday morning along the creek near my house, listening to my iPod as I go. I’ve clicked up the latest On The Media from NPR. And so it starts:
Collaborative Decision making in Disaster Response Situations
Professor Murray Turrof recently sent me a draft of a paper that will be presented at the upcoming 5th International ISCRAM Conference in Washington DC in May of 2008.
I’ve been looking for ways to describe the different types of collaboration processes that technology can support.
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.
What Should Project Managers Know about Social Media and Social Networking?
I’m a member of the online group SdB+PM Forum, a collective of 825 senior project managers who are also members of the Linkedin professional networking group.
Dennis McDonald's Blog's Top Ten Posts of 2007
Here are my blog’s Managing Technology posts for 2007, sorted in descending order by the unique page views recorded by Google Analytics.
Here we go again — the following list joins my previous two which are here and here:
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.
Even if it’s true that most people don’t really care about online privacy, things will change when the mainstream media start publicizing cases of pain and loss where credible or sympathetic individuals (e.g., young, attractive, or sympathetic families) get “bitten” by misuse of personal data sourced online.
As of October, 20, 2007, the following category tags have each been assigned to ten or more posts in Dennis McDonald’s Blog:
Are the Privacy Cyberwars Already Here?
In my daily perusal of my Megite news feed, I ran across these two articles: * Ask.com Unveils Search Privacy Tool: Users Control Their Search Data
* Scheme to Destroy Your Competition with RivalMap
OK, what IS a "project blog," anyway?
I’ve been interviewing technical project managers about their thoughts on the use of blogs as project management tools. Preliminary results are here. One finding is that how you ask the question about blogging and project management makes a big difference in the response.
Presentation: Blogging and Project Management Survey - Preliminary Findings
This presentation is a progress report on the dozen or so interviews I’ve conducted so far in my blogging and project management survey: