This weekend I had the distinct honor of participating in the finals of Microsoft's US Imagine Cup competition. For those of you not familiar with the competition, it is an annual event held by Microsoft world-wide to encourage innovation among col ...[Read More]

As the current presidential administration continues to emphasize the need for being transparent numerous questions come to mind, both as a tax payer and as an IT solutions provider. Does this mean there will be transparency between government agenc ...[Read More]

About a week ago I lamented that I didn't think I could trust my online social network. My own fault perhaps, but now I can better appreciate the risks of malicious "friends." Take a look at http://newsroom.mcafee.com/article_display.cfm ...[Read More]

The more I read about applications of social media in the enterprise, the more I ask myself do social media tools address a new challenge or a long-standing one. Not that I claim to be an expert, but it just seems that social media provides us wit ...[Read More]

With the rapid adoption and growth of social media, how can we trust what we are reading and who we are connecting with? This is a question that I struggle with daily. While mainstream media – Newspapers, Television, and Radio – sometimes have an ...[Read More]

Jim's Blog 12/11/09 Enabling Enterprise Social Networking – Social Networking Is Coming to The Enterprise – Are you ready? December 11th, 2009 Organizations are struggling everyday with how or whether to deploy Web 2.0 technologies into thei ...[Read More]

With the maturing of managed services and industry focus on SAAS, when does an IT company decide to outsource its basic IT services (email, portal, instant messaging, CRM)?  This is a hard question to answer.  On one hand, it absolutely makes sens ...[Read More]

How often have you been asked to sit in on a technology demonstration that focuses on capabilities and features rather than on the context for how they can be applied to solve a business problem?  If you are like me, it happens on a weekly if not da ...[Read More]

With the focus on transparency in government that President-elect Obama is making, the real question is, Are we really ready to make it happen?  Web 2.0 can provide capabilities to improve the transparency between government and its constituents ...[Read More]

Government Agencies struggle to implement the litany of unfunded mandates leveled upon them by Congress and the Executive Branch.  The choice in most cases to comply or not comply is based not on the willingness of the agency, but rather on its ...[Read More]