Category: Speaking
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Presentation: How To Use Open Source Techniques For Your Project Management Needs: Achieving Organizational Culture Change And Breaking Down Barriers Through Social Media Participation
Below is a presentation I gave at the Social Media for Government conference in Washington, D.C. recently. My talk tied what I’ve experienced participating with open source communities and how the attributes of the most successful open source communities can be applied to working within our institutions and enterprises to change stagnant working cultures. How…
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Data as Art Presentation at Strata Conference
Many thanks to O’Reilly for producing Strata . It was an amazing conference. And many thanks to everyone who attended my session titled “Data as Art.” I am most grateful for the patience everyone had while I was dealing with A/V challenges. Trust me, you weren’t nearly as frustrated by that as I was. I’ve…
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Speaking at Strata Conference This Week
I’m very honored and excited to be included in the program for the O’Reilly Strata Conference in Santa Clara this week. An entire conference focused on data mining and visualizations is ultra-intriguing to say the least. I just read a blog post that puts the conference into proper perspective by stating “Big data is the…
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GOSCON and Portland
I’m currently in Portland, Oregon attending the GOSCON conference where I gave a presentation titled “Open Source Community Principles for Organizational Change.” The slides in my presentation can be found at the bottom of this post. I’ve forgotten how wonderful a city Portland is. I haven’t been here for about 13 years. One of the…
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Speaking at GOSCON Next Week
Quick note to mention that I’m headed to Portland, Oregon next week to speak at GOSCON – The Government Open Source Conference. GOSCON is non-profit conference designed for government IT management. This years program focuses on the role of open source software and collaboration enabling leading Open Government and Transparency initiatives throughout the US. I’ll…