Work 2.0 and the Challenge of Work vs. Personal – a GRAMA Proposal
I’ve worked for many companies, large and small, and consulted for others and they have all had the same problem, particularly the large ones. It’s the CIO’s dilemma. How do you protect your organization and your customers while still trying to give your employees the liberty to do the best job they can with the […]
Read more...The HB477 Working Group and Making Utah a Little More Open
The press release just went out. I’m going to be joining the Utah State Senate-sponsored working group, aiming to bring Utah’s open records laws into the 21st century. I’ll be among other notables such as Phil Windley (CTO, co-founder of Kynetx and former Utah State CTO, founder, Internet Identity Workshop), who are all experts in […]
Read more...Twitter is Finally Doing the Right Thing
Developers are up in arms over new changes to Twitter’s policies. Today Ryan Sarver, Twitter’s Director of Platform, stated in an email to developers that “developers ask us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience. The answer is no.” I applaud the effort however, as Twitter […]
Read more...Utah Just Made Government Across the U.S. a Little More Closed
I don’t get political on this blog very often (honestly, I hate politics), but when I do you can know either 1) it’s technology related, or 2) it’s important to me. This one is both of those. The issue is related to Utah’s House Bill 0477 (please read the whole thing if you get a chance), […]
Read more...Last week I spoke about how the ‘@’ on Twitter and other microblogging services may no longer be necessary due to the addition of the in_reply_to_status_id API call on services like Twitter and Identi.ca. In the comments of that article you mentioned several examples why that would still be necessary. I’ve spent the weekend contemplating […]
Read more...I’d like to announce that SocialOptimize, my Social Media Development and Consulting and Apps Agency is being dissolved. I will now be assuming business under the name, “Stay N’ Alive Productions, LLC”. This, at least for now, will remain the main blog and website for my new business. What does this mean for my Social […]
Read more...Picasaweb “Link to this Image”
I’ve noticed Picasaweb now has new Image linking capabilities. I’m going to try it out with our good friend, Mr. Praying Mantis: From Jesse's Garden Very nice…
Read more...100 for $100, 500 for $50 on Came2Pass.com
For those of you who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I have a proposal for you. As I mentioned before, I’ve started a new little venture called Came2Pass.com. Its slogan is “News for Mormons, by Mormons”, and it will soon become your one-stop shop for all LDS-related news, information, […]
Read more...Came2Pass.com
I have started a new venture that I hope can be of service to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It’s called came2pass.com (http://www.came2pass.com) and it is intended to be a “Digg” for members of the Mormon Church. So, other Mormons can now share links and content they find with each […]
Read more...Doh!
I’m about ready to shoot myself. I decided to try a Typo upgrade, and just realized it deleted the db! Fortunately, I had an old backup, but I’m missing about 4-5 articles from since then, including my one from today! I’ll have to decide if I need to reload the previous from some of the […]
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