Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

'Earl invented mass-produced car styling and annual new product unveiling cycles at General Motors during its glory years — and there are many parallels to Apple''s recent run.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 28, 2014

'The post Might Curators Be An Answer To Twitter’s Signal To Noise Problem? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. My stats in 2008. And at present. 10X the number of folks followed = Signal to Noise problem. Twitter’s lack of growth over the past few months has quickly become its defining narrative – witness Inside Twitter’s plan to fix itself from Quartz, which despite the headline, fails to actually explain anything about said plan.

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Interactive Information Management

MARCH 27, 2014

If you're in any way associated with Government contracting, project or program management, project or system cost estimating or resourcing, whether on the job or during acquisition processes and proposal preparation - you may need PMP, ITIL or Cost Estimation Certification and/or training. This is important not only from the business manager perspective, but also from the Enterprise and Solution Architect perspective - it comes in very handy.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 11, 2014

On March 10, 2014, the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information and all 16 German state data protection authorities responsible for the private sector issued guidelines on the use of closed-circuit television (“CCTV”) by private companies. The guidelines provide information regarding the conditions under which CCTV may be used and outline the requirements for legal compliance.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 28, 2014

Not long ago, a colleague of mine sent to me an e-mail message that he'd received from a person who supports DB2 for z/OS at a US-based company. In this message the IT professional wrote of some DB2-accessing application programs that were running into lock contention issues with page-level locking (the default) in effect. He knew that going to row-level locking for the target tables (accomplished by altering the associated table spaces with LOCKSIZE(ROW)) would likely resolve the locking confli

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

'Autodesk, academia, and coming-of-age firms like Stratsys and Organovo are all collaborating on an incredible new dimension on creation with programable materials.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 12, 2014

'The post We Have Yet to Clothe Ourselves In Data. We Will. appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. We are all accustomed to the idea of software “Preferences” – that part of the program where you can personalize how a particular application looks, feels, and works. Nearly every application that matters to me on my computer – Word, Keynote, Garage Band, etc. – have preferences and settings.

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Interactive Information Management

MARCH 25, 2014

The title of this article is quite a mouthful, and three very complex and broadly-scoped disciplines mashed together. But that's what's happening all over, isn't it, driven by consumer demand on their iPhones - mashing and manipulating information that's managed to leak through the risk-adverse, highly-regulated mantle of the government's secure data cocoon, and instantly sharing it for further rendering, visualization or actual, productive use.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 7, 2014

On March 6, 2014 the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) published a comprehensive Opinion: Opinion 02/2014 on a referential for requirements for Binding Corporate Rules submitted to national Data Protection Authorities in the EU and Cross-Border Privacy Rules submitted to APEC CBPR Accountability Agents. This blog post provides an overview of the Opinion.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Robert's Db2

MARCH 1, 2014

I have long been a big fan of DB2 for z/OS native SQL procedures, but I also recognized early on that putting this technology to use would require DB2 DBAs to learn some new things. Much of this newness has to do with the fact that for a native SQL procedure (and for its more recently arrived cousin, the "native" SQL scalar function , also known as a compiled SQL scalar function or a non-inline SQL scalar function), there is no external-to-DB2 executable -- no object module, no load module.

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JKevinParker

MARCH 22, 2014

Typeface preferences are subjective. That said, some fonts are just more readable than others. This is true even in "code view". Code editors should generally use a monospaced font (a font where each character is the same width), as this allows us to see patterns within lines of code more easily. But your font does not have to be awful. Like Courier New.

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

'A down to earth voice from a previous era sounds a warning about overconfident posturing around how to do things by those who rarely have, and lack of respect for those who actually get business done'

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 20, 2014

'The post Thinking Out Loud: Potential Information appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Plenty of potential at the top of this particular system. ( image ) If you took first-year physics in school, you’re familiar with the concepts of potential and kinetic energy. If you skipped Physics, here’s a brief review: Kinetic energy is energy possessed by bodies into motion.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 28, 2014

Yesterday (27 March 2014) the Romanian DPA approved a decision on the use of Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs). Historically the DPA […].

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 31, 2014

The recent leak of an internal memo to the former Chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which was widely reported by national news media, has created a national security setback for the United States. Many are concerned that the disclosure may provide terrorists and other bad actors a roadmap for causing a prolonged nationwide blackout.

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Scary Beasts Security

MARCH 21, 2014

A couple of weeks back, I released a popular spreadsheet which lists many of the Adobe Flash Player 0-days used to harm people in the wild since 2010. I counted 18 and countless kind Twitterers pointed out some I may have missed. It was an interesting exercise, of course with an ulterior motive! Looking beyond the raw counts, the spreadsheet shouts two items: We should want to make a difference.

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JKevinParker

MARCH 2, 2014

Enterprise Wiki pages in SharePoint 2013 (as with SharePoint 2010) are pretty easy pages for users to create and author. There are a few things that bug me and other standards advocates out there, chief of which (for me) are the title and file name problems. Problems with Enterprise Wiki Page Titles Create a new page called "My New Page" in an existing page by enclosing that title in double square brackets: This will create a dashed underlined link that, when clicked, will prompt the user to cre

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

'Fast removal of old technology to enable new ways of working is essential but often under appreciated: HP are masters at orchestrating disposal governance compliance, financing and contractual reorganization.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 2, 2014

'The post Else 3.3.14: Is The Internet A Utility? appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. The week was dominated by Google related stories, but the top dialog had to do with the Internet itself. I’m sensing something of a shift in society’s beliefs about the Internet’s central role in our humanity. Five years ago, no one wanted to talk about Internet access as a basic human right.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 3, 2014

A recent settlement with the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) demonstrates the importance […].

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 28, 2014

On March 20, 2014, Australia’s Privacy Amendment (Privacy Alerts) Bill 2014 was re-introduced in the Senate for a first read. The bill, which was subject to a second reading debate on March 27, 2014, originally was introduced on May 29, 2013, but it lapsed on November 12, 2013 at the end of the session. As we previously reported , if passed, the bill would amend the Privacy Act 1988 by introducing a mandatory breach notification requirement for “serious data breaches.

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 24, 2014

'The post Why You Should Read The Circle, Even If You Don’t Buy It appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Last month I finished Dave Eggers’ latest novel The Circle , the first work by a bona fide literary light that takes on our relationship with today’s Internet technology and, in particular, our relationship with corporations like Google.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 10, 2014

'The post Else 3.10.13: Satoshi, Snowden, Google, And The Meaning of it All appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. The past week spun with controversy and breaking news around many of our society’s most interesting conversations: The elusive founder of bitcoin was identified, or perhaps not, Edward Snowden popped up at SXSW (by video, of course) and submitted testimony to the EU, the Aereo case is on its way to the Supreme Court (and launched in Austin at SXSW, of course), and

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 24, 2014

'The post Else 3.24.14: “In front of us are two roads – which way are we going to go?” appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Back in the saddle after missing a week of Else (sorry about that). The best stories from the past two weeks are below, and you’ll note a bit of TED, which ran last week, as well as a fair amount of Google, which is hard to avoid given the focus of this newsletter: If you’re going to cover “becoming data” it’s b

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

'The cross currents of different digital use models have often tended to cancel out the effectiveness of company wide initiatives so far, and superficiality is increasing the challenges'

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

'Stopping smart self promoters from dominating collaborative processes is far more important than most realize; over-communicators can wreck workflows and digital commons, causing them to fail. Enterprise 2.

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Collaboration 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

'In my experience, strategic planning for transformation is critical to lower costs while increasing innovation and agility.

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MARCH 19, 2014

'Theoretical knowledge still largely dominates strategic thinking about the social web over practical experience, which has resulted in succession and long term planning issues as business use matures'

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