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Green IT Is Essential to Green Government

Environmentally conscious, or "Green" IT encompasses everything from examining the use of pollutants in the manufacture of technology, to Projections to the Test. The Leadership Group is one of many organizations focusing attention on the growing challenges of improving energy efficiency within data centers. The Green Grid is working toward...

Tags: Data Center, U.S. General Services Administration, Green IT, Leadership Group, Green Grid, Green Electronics Council, Data Centers, Government, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2008-10-07

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Dell finalizes $3.9 billion offer for Perot

Dell buys PerotH.Ross and T.Boone should get together and build the NG fueling infrastructure needed to convert semi-tractors off diesel, then build and rent out a parallel power grid so there would be a way to distribute power from wind/tide farms and the excess from micro solar installations. The utilities...

Tags: Perot, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Developing government's human voice

Yet another government bureacracy...[quote] We start with focusing on what is the mission of government and its various agencies. How can we meet these missions in a better way? How can we leverage technology to engage people we may not have had access to in the past? [/quote]The part of...

Tags: Vertical industries, Advertising & Promotion, agency, government

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Antitrust: Time to break apart the phone companies -- again?

Actually,those 'guaranteed revenue' companiesAre not so rare. Food companies, oil and gas companies, phone companies, electric companies, water utilities.... the list goes on and on if I had enough time to think of them all.That is why we need to break up any company that gets more than a 10%...

Tags: Corporate law, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Food & Beverage, 360Networks Corp., phone company, phone, antitrust

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Cisco doubles down on video conferencing; Acquires Tandberg for $3 billion

Cisco is beefing up its video conferencing arsenal, picking up Tandberg, a Norwegian video conferencing outfit, for $3 billion. In a statement, Cisco said it is acquiring Tandberg to expand its collaboration platform. With the deal, Cisco will bring in Tandberg's network infrastructure and video conferencing equipment...

Tags: Video Conferencing, Cisco Systems Inc., Tandberg, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Democrats threaten to grow backbones over health reform

Good analysis.ntthis bill is DOA!Thanks to the efforts of real Americans in Congress and townhalls, the road to socialism in America has been blocked for now.The liberal plan to take over our healthcare and turn it into an expensive third world healthcare has been foiled, but the real test comes...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Reform, health care

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.

Richard M. Stallman RMS the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has labeled prominent Open Source software developer Miguel De Icaza a "Traitor" for  joining the Board of Directors of Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation as well as for his creation of the Microsoft .NET-compatible Mono software development...

Tags: Ubuntu, Free Software Foundation, GNOME, Microsoft Corp., Richard Stallman, Miguel De Icaza, Mono Framework, Genie, Linux, Open Source, C#, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, .Net, Operating Systems, Software, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

IT security defenses misdirected

In My Humble Experience...The biggest problem that I have, isn't viruses or phishing. Most people run at least basic AV protection on their machines. My problem is the users themselves.I run a pretty tight setup at the school where I work. Active directory with group policies, Symantec Endpoint Protection, a...

Tags: Cyberthreats, IT security, information technology, network, security, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Jobsworths and Box-Wallahs...

We've all been behind the glass in bureaucratic purgatory at some point. Having waited in line at the department of motor vehicles or similar our number finally comes up and we interact with the bureaucrat, who has some issue with your missing some...

Tags: Job, Recruitment & Selection, Wiki, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-13

Rimini Street ups the support ante: expands international support

Rimini Street has announced the global expansion of its tax and regulatory compliance services to more than 100 countries, beefing up its expertise in the process with the appointment of Greg Prowe as group vice president, global tax and regulatory strategy and research. From the release: “Greg...

Tags: SAP AG, Rimini Street, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Ask the Leadership Coach: Outsourcing from both sides of the divide

Outsourcing is despicableI am so tired of those that send jobs overseas. I hope you all rot in hell.RE: Ask the Leadership Coach: Outsourcing from both sides of the divideAccording to a Gartner group survey 250,000 IT, Finance and Accounting Jobs will be outsourced overseas in the next...

Tags: Managed hosting, outsourcing, Leadership Coach, leadership

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

FaceFeed: the enterprise perspective

Having seen some of yesterday's jocular references to the marriage between FriendFeed and Facebook hence FaceFeed in the title it got me thinking about the enterprise perspective - if there is one. Earlier in the day and before the announcement, I was listening to an old buddy of mine. We...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Channel Management, Leadership, Marketing, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Facebook to acquire FriendFeed

Facebook said today that it will acquire FriendFeed for an undisclosed amount. As part of the agreement, all 12 employees will join Facebook and the company's founders will take on senior roles in Facebook's engineering and product teams. Techmeme In a statement, FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit said:...

Tags: Facebook, FriendFeed, Team Management, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-10

The Speakers Group: 'Women will be better represented'

The last couple of weeks begot a bit of brouhaha when The Speakers Group posted a "top 10 list" of social media speakers that included only men. The Internet backlash was severe from a social media community up in arms, questioning why the speakers bureau couldn't find at least one...

Tags: Women, Speaker, Blog, Social Media, Charlene, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-08-04

SAP unplugged: Vishal Sikka and John Schwarz on deck

Jeff Nolan and Vinnie Mirchandani have done a sterling job in reporting our meeting Vishal Sikka, SAP's CTO and John Schwarz, executive board member in charge of BusinessObjects. To my eternal shame, I was asleep for most of the meeting with Vishal having completely miscalculated the effects of jetlag, turning...

Tags: SAP AG, Leadership, Financial Planning, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Teams in the (Troubled) Cloud

Teams in the Troubled CloudI too have noticed this increase in self inerestI am a 15 year veteran of software engineering 30 years in engineering in other fields. I owe my value to two things. The help I have received from others and the research I did on my own.I...

Tags: Team management, Leadership, team

Discussion threads 2009-07-23

A CIO's take on the home PC support dilemma

This is a guest post by TechRepublic's Scott Lowe, CIO of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. You can find more posts like this in TechRepublic's IT Leadership blog. This week, Bill Detwiler posed the following question in a poll: Should corporate help desks support home PCs? The responses...

Tags: Home PC, Employee, PC, Computer, Productivity, Help Desk, It Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM

The debate and discussion about what defines Social CRM a.k.a. CRM 2.0 vs. its traditional parent has been going on for about 2 years pretty regularly and started, according to thought leader Graham Hill almost a decade before that. Personally, I'm done defining it and am moving...

Tags: Customer, Business, Tool, CRM, Social CRM, SCRM Business Strategy, Co-creation, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-06