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We’ve all heard the old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words.” But suppose we speak those 1,000 words at a moderate pace and demonstrate what we are talking about in a five to seven-minute video? According to both common sense and numerous studies, the learning opportunity and communications impact of video are clearly superior.

But until recently, video was costly to produce and cumbersome to distribute, making it impractical for all but the most “canned” applications. All that has changed with Enterprise IP Video tools to capture, record, manage, distribute, and access all video content across an organization’s existing network infrastructure. Keep reading →

In Pittsburgh, Pa., there is an interesting phenomenon that that happens when the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers come together to form the Ohio River. It is called a “confluence.”

Federal IT is headed the same way. Keep reading →

Not-for-profit MITRE Corp. is seeking proof of concept ideas for “innovation brokering” with a federal government markets, in the initial form of a perpetual trade show.

The objective is to enable the private sector to overcome barriers to doing business with the federal government, and contribute innovative ideas, according to Mitre officials. Responses are due July 31 for the ideas and will be evaluated using MITRE’s Prediction Market. MITRE manages federally funded research and development centers, so it’s efforts are likely to attract more than casual interest.

Initially MITRE is asking for feedback from vendors and other participants on what it would take for them to work with the federal government – how the government can improve its research and acquisition process – before reviewing contest submissions. Keep reading →


Steve Wozniak’s eclectic experience as relentless tinkerer, entrepreneur, and longtime hero in the geek community — known now as much for his appearance on “Dancing With The Stars” as he is for co-founding Apple, Inc. — attracted a standing-room only crowd at the Washington Convention Center yesterday. And the Woz did not disappoint.

Wozniak served as a much as human icon for the technology world as he did as a keynote speaker at the 35th annual FOSE Exposition, a government technology trade show. Keep reading →

Steve Wozniak, known now as much now for his appearance on “Dancing With The Stars” as he is for co-founding Apple, Inc., attracted a standing-room only crowd at the Washington Convention Center yesterday, delivering the keynote speech at the 35th annual FOSE Exposition, a government technology trade show.

See our report on his remarks about innovating and the human element in technology. Keep reading →

Federal agencies are embracing social media as an increasingly common way to interact with the public. Yet, a critical consideration that is often overlooked by agency officials is how social media will be incorporated in disaster and emergency preparedness plans. If your agency hasn’t fully developed a social media plan for disaster preparedness scenarios, it’s time to add it to your priority “to do” list!

Information about practically everything – both factual and wildly inaccurate – now travels around the globe literally in minutes, through new communication tools – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, to name a few. In a natural or manmade disaster, if you don’t reach out to the public with the facts quickly, someone else will get there with rumor – and as we all know, misinformation can cause havoc, create panic, and potentially increase danger to those at risk who we want to protect. Keep reading →

My eyes caught the full-page graphic in the print version Washington Post Business Section Sunday entitled “Our Mountain of Debt” and they strained to see all the numbers and text about them because this is a subject of considerable interest and importance right now to me and many others.

The article said: “In the American political conversation, the national debt has become something almost mythical. The debt has become a metaphor for all that ails the United States, a scary monster under the bed. It isn’t. It’s an accounting concept. The nation’s numbers, in the billions and trillions of dollars, start to get away from us quickly. But the challenge is not unlike any household’s juggle to manage its finances.” Keep reading →

Gen Cartwright “your collaborative tool is someone’s weapon or a competitive advantage” #FOSE #federal #socmed Bureaupat


The fifth in a series of “Seven Management Imperatives” for government leaders, based on the insights provided by some 300 senior government officials and more than 300 research reports, courtesy of IBM Center of The Business of Government.

Government leaders and managers have a fundamental responsibility to protect citizens from security threats. The weapons and tactics employed in many of today’s security threats do not require the traditional armies of the past. Malicious groups of people, down to a hostile individual operating within the homeland, can acquire and employ commercially available technology to inflict major destruction. Keep reading →


Internet co-creator Vint Cerf argues that discontent, the ability to fail, and the environment where managers can say “yes” are among the key ingredients for leaders to foster innovation in government.

Let me start by making an observation: Progress doesn’t happen unless somebody is discontented. Keep reading →

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