Last week my friend Charlie came over after dinner. We go out to movies a couple of times a month and afterwards go for a beer. This time we decided to stay in. He would supply the beer and I the popcorn. Our intended entertainment: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE GHOST PROTOCOL.
It’s not unusual to find myself when I go back to a browser based application from an iPhone app I’m struck by the messiness and clutter, despite the added functionality.
When the Cold War Was Winding Down, Could the Soviet Military Have Maintained Secrecy Had Social Media Existed?
“Would the Soviet Union have been able to maintain the secrecy of its nuclear and biological warfare development efforts had modern social media like Facebook and Twitter been available?”
Thoughts About Cloud Based File Sharing, or, "Take My Files - Please!"
In “Are CIO’s falling in love with file sharing?” CNN Money writer Michal Lev-Ram suggests that corporate Chief Information Officers are giving file sharing services like Dropbox and Box more consideration for enterprise use.
Yesterday Apple announced the new iPad. I like the new iPad and really think I would enjoy it as a way to manage and manipulate my nature photographs.
I want one!
My past several consulting projects have involved document-centric information sharing and collaboration via tools like Microsoft SharePoint and Google Docs.
Collaboration Can Be Messy
Collaboration can be messy. Convincing a group of people to work together to accomplish a common objective, especially when the group contains many people that don’t know each other, requires artful leadership.
Peer Review in Scientific Journals Isn't Perfect - So What Else Is New?
In “Stop deifying ‘peer review’ of journal publications” Jonathan Eisen skillfully walks the reader through three realities of how peer review works with scientific journals:
I just updated the copyright statement in the footer of this blog from
This post was sparked by reading a discussion series in GovLoop’s Knowledge Management in Government group. What caught my eye were several references to the relationship between “knowledge management” and “social media.”
Back in August I posted “Let’s Stop Talking about ‘Social Business’” where I made the following statement:
On the Importance of Authentic Social Media Engagement
I recently had a discussion with Robyn Tippins on Google+. I know Robyn from our podcasting days and from Linkedin Bloggers. Robyn, who recently moved to Read Write Web to serve as Community Manager, had mentioned she was hoping it would be possible to schedule posts in advance on Google+:
I’m partial to history, technology, and the arts. Here are five I’ve been listening to regularly in recent months:
Over the past week or so Michael Kaplan and I have been talking about our common interest in collaboration tools and project management.
My First Electronic Gadgets
As I salivate at getting several new iPhone 4s smartphones via some kind of “family plan” and try to decide what storage capacity I’ll need to replace my worn-out-but-serviceable iPod Classic, my thoughts return to the gadgets of my youth.
A couple of weeks ago I ran into Ian McCully on Google+ on a video “hangout.”
Is availability of powerful mobile devices and services really changing the way people work? Or are smart phones and tablet computers just providing more options for doing existing work without regard to location?
No Thanks, I Prefer Sharing WITH Friction
In Whoops, I didn’t mean for you to read this Brian Solis explains Facebook’s new “frictionless sharing” model which gives people the ability, when they install a new Facebook app that makes such sharing possible, to decide whether or not they want their app-related behaviors to be automatically added to their Facebook timeline. This then makes it possible for Facebook followers to receive automatic notifications of these behaviors and provides advertisers with invaluable data on personal behavior and preferences.
I enjoy movies and movie soundtrack music. These are the iTunes tracks in my “Soundtracks 3” playlist:
Audit of the VA's Project Management Accountability System (PMAS) Implementation
Here’s some light reading: the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs’ Office of the Inspector General’s “Audit of the Project Management Accountability System Implementation.” Known as “PMAS,” the system was put in place in 2009 to provide better oversight of the VA’s troubled IT development projects. This was done in light of a history of cost overruns and failed IT projects at the VA.