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- Technology, Transparency & the New AdministrationNovember 10 2008
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NPR: Obama Expected To Appoint A Technology Czar
Today’s Morning Edition has a segment on Obama’s plan to appoint a government-wide Technology Czar / CTO. The story also describes his administration’s plans to make government information more accessible by citizens.
Will the next administration treat technology differently then what we’ve seen in the past? Will the push for added transparency provide opportunities for BE? Take a look at the contrast so far - both the Obama Transition Team and the GSA have websites designed to help enable the smooth transition of a presidential administration. The difference between the says a lot about Obama’s staff and aides will see the role of technology in government:
- Change How You ChangeNovember 7 2008
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As the clock ticks down toward inauguration, our new president and his aides are faced with the daunting challenge of smoothly executing a significant transition effort. While I have no basis or expertise in politics, my guess is that this will be a real barnburner in terms of complexity, risk of information loss, and aneurism potential. I suppose change on any level is always difficult, but something of this magnitude sounds like it might actually require some “management”. Change management that is…
The Transition Project is also tasked with reviewing hundreds of agencies and programs in the federal government and selecting new personnel to manage these important offices. Among the personnel that will be selected will be new Cabinet members, national security and federal law enforcement officials, non-career appointments, and other heads of agencies across the Executive Branch. - http://change.gov
As I was pondering this issue (Oh how I love to ponder…mostly because it usually results in little action or responsibility…sort of like blogging or legal advice) the recent conversations with my friends at Trampoline Systems came to mind. We have been running an underground pilot of the SONAR platform
- Come and get it…October 29 2008
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For those (3) of you just tuning in to our blog, it is probably important to note that the stone in our tranparency soup recipie has long been the BearingPoint Enterprise Wiki deployment. Following an extended pilot, we are about 6 months into a full-on, production level deployment of Atlassian’s Confluence, JIRA, and Crowd stack for the complete firm. I suppose I have always perceived the effort as being successful, but I am willing to admit that my perspective might be a little skewed. (My baby is most certainly not ugly, kind sir!)
In response to an internal communciations query, I was recently asked to take a look at usage stats since GoLive. Initially I was pretty impressed but then it occured to me that I really have no basis by which to judge either way. As such, I thought I would post the facts and see what the prevaling wisdom is.
Basics:
- GoLive Date = May 5, 2008
- Possible Users = ~16,000 (The wiki is only accessible by employees. This number is roughly current headcount, but people have come and gone over the months.)
We’ll start with basic wiki pages first:
- Current Wiki Pages = 11,720
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- Facebook: The Green IT Idea GeneratorOctober 28 2008
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Green IT is becoming increasingly important for companies, and BearingPoint has some really smart folks (some that I have the pleasure of working with) developing strategies for companies who want to integrate it into their operations. To take things a step further, BearingPoint is using Facebook to gather ideas about Green IT and help improve our solution:
We’ve launched a contest on Facebook to gather the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ on how businesses can become more environmentally conscious in their operations. Facebook users can contribute their ideas and pass them along to their friends and the larger Facebook community to vote on by Nov. 15. (And yes, the winner gets a green prize!) - Buzz Marketing For Technology
Check it out:
- Alfresco Share Heart SharePointOctober 27 2008
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It’s been a while since my last post; a longish assignment in Jakarta and the trials and tribulations of first time home ownership seem to have led my attentions elsewhere. Being overseas did give me the opportunity to sell a client on some new and interesting technology though - in this case, Alfresco’s Alfresco 3 / Alfresco Share web-based collaboration suite. Our client (a large intergovernmental organization headquartered in Jakarta) was interested in replacing a legacy document management system that had fallen into disuse. SharePoint was of course bandied about, amongst other things, but I ended up prototyping a beta of Alfresco Share:
Share combines social media capabilities like blogs and wikis with powerful search and an intuitive interface. Best of all, it has SharePoint Protocol Support. To Word or PowerPoint, Alfresco looks like a SharePoint repository, allowing Office suite programs to use Alfresco as if were speaking to SharePoint This has some interesting implications for organizations that want to move away from MOSS or