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When I go online, I often check out the headlines and key stories in the United Kingdom (UK). Typically, I visit The London Times. There are many reasons for this such as: - Our English friends provide a different voice…

The 2008 Tehcnorati State of the Blogosphere report tells us that bloggers worldwide create 900,000 blog posts a day.  That makes me very grateful and more than a little surprised you have taken the time to include this in your daily reading.…

There is one part of the live edition of Steal This Idea that makes audiences sit up and go, "hmm."  Images from what Mashable considers the most beautiful social networks wash over the audience, followed by a question - do any of your sites…

I have just arrived back from a conference on organizational resiliency where part of the focus was public  / private partnerships. The conference was presented by the Ontario Hospital Association and held in Toronto (OHA). It's interesting in…

The U.S. presidential election is more or less just around the corner; and as we speak our two candidates are grappling with issues more pressing than the future of Digital Citizenry; nonetheless, that issue does remain on their books and in their…

This is a great example of why organizations, in this case the largest university in British Columbia, Canada, need to be ready to use the new media to get their messages out quickly and effectively when things go wrong.On Wednesday, January 30th,…

Before we get too far into the trenches, I would like to put things a bit into perspective and lay out a little about what we have done at the City of Tucson.  A lot of what will be written here is from the experiences that we have encountered…

Having failed to achieve the ambitious target it had set for itself during its formation in 2005, OLPC seems to have embarked upon a corporate restructuring strategy to reenergize its famous one-laptop-per-child concept. According to Satish Jha,…

The Metropolitan Information Exchange (MIX), an association of City and County CIOs, met in Seattle this week. MIX is a select group of 55 forward-thinking technology leaders. Their discussions about the future uses of technology in government have…