Saturday, August 05, 2006

Wireless:  We are moving forward in this are too! Dianah Neff - Wireless Philadelphia. The City of Philadelphia is in the vanguard of American municipalities offering ubiquitous wireless access to their citizens. Despite legislative opposition from the cable and telecommunications industries, the city has forged ahead with a public/private partnership to build the infrastructure and skills needed to bring affordable wifi to the city's diverse neighborhoods. Dianah Neff describes the vision and the logistics of Philly's plan to shrink the digital divide and connect residents to the information highway. [IT Conversations] 12:50:07 PM    comment []

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Great ideas on how to improve email. Geek to Live: Train others how to use email - Lifehacker [Career Opportunities: The High-Tech Career Handbook] 4:10:12 PM    comment [] It will be interesting to keep an eye on this. I don't see much of a chance for this in our shop.   Forrester’s corporate blogging solutions evaluation, Part 1. I'm conducting a review of corporate blogging solutions this quarter and could use your help in the process. Forrester has been doing evaluations -- we call them waves of technology solutions for the past few years and we thought this... [Charlene Li's Blog] 4:03:51 PM    comment []

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Wiki for Business? You bet!. I have now had the experience of using a Wiki information system for a variety of purposes and I am entirely sold. If you need to build up and information source with other people, it can be the easiest and fastest method. Anyone can edit a wiki page to add or change information, but you can put the wiki behind a password to limit access. One friend is using an internal wiki to collect and share information on the myriad of procedures that staffers must use to process loans with a variety of banks. This posting from LifeHacker, links to a particularly good article from Information Week magazine on wikis and their use in a business environment. How To Use Wikis For Business Over at Information Week, there is a very nice overview/tutorial on the use of Wikis in business. Wikis can make for a good, inexpensive collaboration tool or content management replacement, and this article may help decide if a wiki is right for you. How To Use Wikis For Business [Information Week] (Via Lifehacker.) By noemail@noemail.org (Douglas). [Career Opportunities: The High-Tech Career Handbook] 8:43:04 PM    comment []

Friday, May 20, 2005

Oracle now podcasting. Oracle now joins the podcasting world, for all you database freaks. [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger] 8:16:20 PM    comment []

Thursday, May 05, 2005

Simple single sign-on. Today's 2.75-minute screencast features Nic Wolff's ingenious solution to the vexing problem of single sign-on to websites. I've mentioned it before, but I suspect few outside the geek community read those postings or "got it" if they did. We'll see if this narrated visual demonstration can manage to cross over. ... [Jon's Radio] 7:08:05 PM    comment []

Sunday, March 13, 2005

San Diego's outsourcing experiment, six years later. Six years ago, San Diego made headlines by outsourcing all of its IT operations to a consortium of private entities. The jury appears in: While the decision has led to higher IT costs, it's also led to greater security, reliability, and alignment with business needs. A must-read article from Government Technology. [GovTechNews: A government-technology blog] 3:08:58 PM    comment []

Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Blogging at Public CIO. Public CIO Magazine has an article on blogging by Blake Harris that I'm part of. Blake asked a lot of good questions and we talked for a while. That is why the Utah state government's brash foray into blogging stands out. A few months after becoming Utah's CIO in 2001, Phillip Windley began blogging personally. "It wasn't very long after that -- a month or so -- that I realized there could be a lot of value to an organization if there were people inside the organization who blogged," Windley explained. "I could see how when I wrote stuff on my blog, people who worked for me and people who worked in IT throughout the state, as well as others, would respond to it. I thought, "This is cool. I've got a channel to essentially talk to these people.'" But Windley also wanted to hear what these people were thinking and saying. So he assembled a little program, negotiated a price for up to 100 licenses with UserLand, and offered anyone in Utah state government a free blog for a year if they wanted to start blogging. Although blogs were little known among the general Internet population back then, about 35 people took him up on the offer. Many of these blogs eventually died for various reasons. "Some people just don't like to write," said Windley. "And there was some institutional backlash against it. There was>From Government Technology's Public CIO Magazine Referenced Wed Feb 02 2005 16:00:46 GMT-0700 [Phil Windley's Technometria] 9:33:36 PM    comment []

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