I gave a webinar today called, “Beyond Fairy Dust & The No Police: How Cloud Computing Makes Government Better“. Below is the “virtual handout” for the webinar, which lists recent activity both in the government cloud world as well as the platform-as-a-service world. A recording is archived here. Enjoy! Suggested Gov Cloud Reading Extreme Heroku: […]
College or Workplace Evaluations: One Size Does Not Fit All
My #2 son procrastinated his college application essays until just two days ago–the very last minute. Why? He’s a math and music guy, not a writer. That’s right: a key evaluation mechanism relies on his Achilles heel. There’s a reason that this sounds like your experience in the workplace; the sad part is that it’s […]
Hack Your IT Budget: Give A Little To Get A Lot
When it comes to IT budgets, the fact of the matter, based on research that I did for InformationWeek, is that many, but not all organizations are fairly flexible with IT, despite the crusty old practice of only planning expenditures once per year. So why is budgeting a topic that makes IT folks cringe? At […]