Monthly Archives: April 2009
Compliance, security and transparency in the cloud [new article]
Image by jsprhrmsn via Flickr I’m still working my way through RSA coverage. This article, focused on a panel of cloud providers at RSA, emerged an editor’s scalpel stripped to its core. Many questions remain — but that’s for later … Continue reading
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Biometrics, privacy and compliance [new article]
Image by striatic via Flickr It was deeply satisfying to see the piece on biometrics I’ve been working on go live today. It turned out well, especially with the usual polish that my brilliant copy editor put on the prose, … Continue reading
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What is the ROI in Social Media? Humana, EMC, MarketSpace, Communispace at MassTLC
Image via Wikipedia A forum organized by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council addresses one of the hottest questions in social media: how do you measure the return on investment (ROI) for these platform? The panel, part of a “Social Media … Continue reading
Filed under blogging, research, social bookmarking, social media, Twitter
dana boyd on social media evolution and digital ethnography
Image by .Andy Chang. via Flickr dana boyd kicked off a discussion on the ROI of social media in Cambridge with a rapid-fire, necessarily abridged keynote on the history of social networks and their associated digital ethnographies in the United … Continue reading
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Notes and Tweets from the TechTarget ROI Summit at #TTGTSummit
The week before last, before I went off to San Francisco to be immersed in security, compliance and cloud computing at the RSA Conference, I was lucky to be present at TechTarget‘s annual ROI Summit. The event, held in Newton, … Continue reading
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“The challenges of a state CIO” [New podcast]
I was happy to find the podcast I recorded with Anne Marguiles at the top of SearchCIO.com tonight. The conversation I had with the Commonwealth’s CIO is captured in two portions at “The challenges of a state CIO.” Marguiles was … Continue reading
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First scoop: “ICE Act would restructure cybersecurity rule, create White House post”
Image by Boyce Duprey via Flickr After I caught wind of a bill that was going to be introduced by Senator Karper this week during RSA, I followed up on the information I saw presented there by Erik Hopkins and … Continue reading
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Twitter, Google, Meetup, AT&T and Howcast go to Iraq for IraqTech
Early this morning, tweets became coming in from Baghdad from @Jack Dorsey. Here’s the picture of Jack that he tweeted on a C-130, well-equipped in body armor. The snap was taken by Scott @Heif, Chief Organizer at Meetup.com. Jack and … Continue reading
Filed under social media, technology, Twitter
Luck of the Draw: Opening Day at Fenway
Some days are just meant to be. I dropped by my bank in Roslindale after work and then made a beeline for Fenway for Opening Day. I got there just as Beckett finished the sixth, managed to find a standing … Continue reading
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