Posts with keyword: information+technology

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Utah Top Ten IT Accomplishments

Wed Dec 19 08:46:00 2007

Each year, Dave Fletcher publishes a list of the top ten IT accomplishments in Utah state government. He notes that Utah.gov was selected as the #1 state portal in the country for the second time. Utah is the only state to have won that honor twice. There are now over 1030 online government services in Utah. Cool.
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Medieval Tech Support

Tue Mar 27 19:27:00 2007

Kelly Flanagan sent me a link to this video about medieval tech support teaching someone how to use a book. Just read the captions unless you speak Norwegian.
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An Annoying Look at the Top 100 most Influential in IT

Sat Mar 17 12:17:00 2007

eWeek has a story, or rather four stories on the 100 most influential people in IT. The first installment counts down from 100 to 76. I find it incredibly annoying that they don't just list them out, but rather make you look at a slide show--the better to drive ad views, I presume. This is biggest the complaint I have with ad supported models. Frequently the presentation is made a less effective communication because it's held hostage to the desire to drive ad views. I don't want to make poor decisions on what I say or how I say
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Making IT Purchasing Decisions

Tue Jan 16 10:30:00 2007

I just published the latest in my Technometria series on IT Conversations, a conversations with Kelly Phillpps. Kelly is someone I've turned to for years because of his way of thinking deeply about issues. We discuss the weeks announcements from CES and MacWorld and those turn to a discussion of open source in the enterprise and how companies make IT purchasing decisions.
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Dave Fletcher's Top Ten for Utah IT

Thu Dec 28 09:19:00 2006

Dave Fletcher offers up his annual Top 10 in Utah IT for 2006. Among them are the State's wining of three different eGovernment awards and the fact that Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Orem all place in the top-10 digital cities. While you're there, check out his mashup showing the location of state buildings on Google maps. Now, if facilities (or some concerned citizen) would combine that with data on annual cost of the building to maintain, etc. we'd be getting somewhere.
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