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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Recording and transforming
Some great stuff recently from Public Strategiest. Firstly, on records management in the digital age: Finding things again remains a challenge: Rosenberg’s argument about entropy and Lapping’s about the need to manage not just current formats but obsolete ones and … Continue reading
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Tagged government, information management, pubstrat, records, technology
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Bookmarks for August 18th through September 8th
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Civic Commons code-sharing initiative bids to reduce government IT costs – "Around the United States, city governments have created a multitude of software. Unfortunately, most of the time the code … Continue reading
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Tagged anonymity, anonymous, apache, automattic, backup, coding, collaboration, community, content, couchdb, culture, delivery, deloitte, development, ebook, EBooks, ecommerce, editor, elearning, Email, enterprise, enterprise2.0, ERP, google, government, hosting, hybridorg, informationmanagement, intranet, jeffjarvis, km, knowledgemanagement, learning, learningorganisation, learningpool, localgovernment, management, marincounty, o'reilly, opendata, opengov, opengovernment, openknowledge, opensource, perens, personallearning, pkm, plugin, projectmanagement, recordsmanagement, research, sap, security, seddon, senge, sharing, sociallearning, socialmedia, socialorg, systemsthinking, timoreilly, Training, usa, vaultpress, wave, whitepaper, wikipedia, wordpress, wysiwyg
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Explaining cloud
An important part of the tech architecture of open government is use of the cloud. Here’s a nice presentation from Michael Coté explaining what cloud computing is, why it matters and what some of the issues are. What's up with … Continue reading
How to make Government IT deliver savings
Interesting ebook report from The Network for Post-Bureaucratic Age: Better for Less Update: Mick provides his views on the report: Rather than auditing ICT, what we need in reality is a proposal, by some authors with an understanding of what … Continue reading
Anonymity, community and identity
A while ago, I got a bit of a bee in my bonnet about anonymity online, and why it sucked. This was in the wake of the ‘Civil Serf‘ (remember her?) kerfuffle, when a blogger working in government said some … Continue reading
