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Temple University Opens Early Stage Biotech Incubator

Stephanie Baum (Philadelphia, PA) – A university is offering early stage companies from its academic community office space in an incubator as the institution doubles its technology transfer office staff. Philadelphia-based Temple University has opened an office in the University City Science Center that serves as an incubator for many life science and technology ... Read more »
Academia, Biotechnology, Business, Education, Entrepreneurship
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Microsoft Hosts Public Sector CIO Summit

  Mark Drapeau (Redmond, WA) — This week at Microsoft’s main campus in Redmond, WA (just outside Seattle), the company will host chief information officers and other IT professionals from the federal government, state and local governments, and the education and health communities. The event is called the U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit. For two days beginning ... Read more »
Business, Cloud Computing, Cyber Issues, Defense, Education, Events, Government, Health, Real Impact
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Why Should You ‘Like’ Us?

Angie Goff (Washington, DC) – How do you get people to Like you? (On Facebook, I mean.) When I get an opportunity to tap into the minds behind the most world’s most powerful social network, I’m gonna take it. At the headquarters of Gannett, I recently got the chance to attend a seminar and Q&A session with ... Read more »
Business, By the Numbers, Media, Social Software, Television
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Congressional Collaboration 2.0

Kent Cunningham (Nashville, TN) – Federal agencies have made improving operational productivity and efficiency through targeted use of technology a top priority. It was my honor last week to testify before the Oversight Subcommittee of the House Committee on House Administration on June 16 to discuss Modernizing Information Delivery in the House. My presentation, “The ... Read more »
Business, Congress, Events, Government
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Micro-Leadership Through Enterprise Microblogging

Mike Strand (Seattle, WA) - Large organizations are moving to a new phase of internal collaboration and communication using social tools. The last two years has seen a shift from managers questioning the value of micro-blogging and other enterprise social media to giving permission and even encouragement to their employees. The next logical step is for ... Read more »
Business, Government, Leadership, Social Software
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I Have Met The Enemy And It Is Not PowerPoint

Mark Valentine (Chevy Chase, MD) — After a long period of popularity, there has been a recent backlash against the use of PowerPoint for communication within the government, particularly at the Pentagon and within the U.S. national security and intelligence community. However, focusing on the software as the cause of communications breakdown is merely a ... Read more »
Business, Defense, Why Microsoft
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Five Practical Enterprise Microblogging Applications

Mike Strand (Seattle, WA) – I hate hype.  Believe it or not, I’ve never seen the movie Titanic.  To this day, I refuse to “fist pound” people as a greeting.  The bottom line on hype for me is that if something is too popular, I get turned off. At times, my experience with microblogging felt similar. Everyone ... Read more »
Business, Government, Social Software
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Social Media Can Make You A Linchpin

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – I recently read the new business book by Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are you indispensible? which is a must-have for anyone’s bookshelf. Anyone who wants to be employed and successful, that is.  (Sound like you?  Thought so.) The major premise of the book is that there are no more great jobs that ... Read more »
Business, Cheeky Geeky, Defense, Government, Social Software
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