Just an idea Would anyone be interested in an every other month get together, for 2ish hours, where you would have 3 or 4 people give a 15 minute speech/lecture on a tech type topic and Q&A afterward? Think TED, but local Tallahasseeians giving mini-lectures on technology topics they find relevant. It could be anything [...]
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Tally Talks
Posted: March 18, 2009 in Internet, podcast, Tallahassee, TechnologyTags: presentations, Tallahassee, Technology
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One way Web 2.0 social media could help federal, state, and local government.
Posted: February 10, 2009 in Government IT, Internet, knowledgebase, TallahasseeThere are so many ways for government to waste money, but learning a little from social media websites, like Facebook, governmental offices could learn to solve problems through crowd sourcing existing staff from around the nation. The government has a wide range of technologies that it uses from Mainframes to SQL servers to Helpdesk software. [...]
Kids Voting Leon County
Posted: November 6, 2008 in Political, TallahasseeTags: Election, Kids Vote, Leon County
Here are the FINAL official results from this year’s election (also attached in a Word document in case you want a nice copy to print or send out). In total, we had 6,498 ballots counted. (Please note, these will NOT match the numbers reported to the Democrat at 10:03, as we still had 26 hand [...]
Business Threats through Social Engineering.
Posted: September 29, 2008 in Fraud, Tallahassee, TechnologyThe presentation covered four key aspects of Social Engineering Change Society – Make Cyber Crime a Bad Choice Old School Social Engineering Phishing: Greed and Fear Post Phishing: key loggers Spear Phishing Change Society- Make Cyber Crime a Bad Choice The presenter started off by prefacing his reasons for the current state of internet [...]
Business Mashup Mashups take numerous data sources combined and layer them together to form an informative presentation that can deliver services tailored to individuals. The presenter used the book “The Long Tail” as an explanation to the shift from mass production of generic stuff to niche markets. “The Long Tail, in a nutshell“ The theory [...]
Web 2.0 Technologies is hosted by Joe Clark, Florida State University. Joe works at the Center for Teaching and Learning Joe talked about a lot of major Web 2.0 companies like YouTube.com and Facebook. His main emphasis was on taking user generated content of websites that can be used as a model for building unique [...]
2008 Florida Government Technology Conference
Posted: September 23, 2008 in Internet, Tallahassee, TechnologyI will be going to the today and tomorrow. The theme this year is “Government IT Saving Green by Going Green” (see banner below) Currently I am schedule to see five “breakout sessions” and hopefully one Keynote tomorrow. Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Web 2.0 TechnologiesJoe ClarkFlorida State University,Center for Teaching [...]
Pictures from Fay
Posted: September 6, 2008 in Fay, TallahasseeTags: Damage, Fay, Flooding, Southwood, St. Marks River, Tallahassee
Here are some pictures from Fay that I took Saturday afternoon. sorry it took so long for me to get them up.
What who? Google says everything is Sunny!
Posted: August 26, 2008 in humor, Internet, Random, TallahasseeHello!!!! What is Google trying to tell me? The information on the left of the picture is correct, but the pictures that are supposed to be a graphically representation are telling me something a little different. I know that Florida is the “Sunshine State”, but I think this might be false advertising.
Well I have not been doing a good job with writing in my blog. I will say that I have a couple things to talk about. Soccer: Well I have joined a soccer team, “The 1987 Field Day Champions”. This is was something that is kind of a surprise to me. I had been playing [...]
