Archive for May, 2010

May 28

CEOs For Cities has launched an interesting project – the US Initiative. Whilst CEOs for Cities is purely focused on the United States, the organisation’s goals, model, and projects could easily be tailored for New Zealand.

May 22

I have been thinking a lot about life, the universe, and everything – mostly along the lines of where New Zealand should be headed, how local government can act as a catalyst, and what we need to do to ensure we get there. Change the rules I am fond of changing the rules (just ask [...]

May 17

How do we justify spending money on an internal Community & Collaboration platform like JiveSBS? I have been thinking more about Social Business ROI and how to measure it effectively.

May 14

Over the years I have become convinced that more often than not the success or failure of a project or product has very little to do with the technology involved.

May 13

Given the ubiquity of network connectivity (and increasing speeds of access), it is logical for us to investigate the usage of mobile computing platforms and applications to enhance the way we do business.

May 06

With the official launch of Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure last week, there have been welcome changes to Microsoft’s support of open source and open standards in web development.