» Free Advice for Podcasters
04/07/09 10:40 from Dennis D. McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. I listen to a lot of podcasts. Some are original and some are based on radio programs. I listen to a mix of history, technology, politics, literature, and music. Here are some random comments and advice for peo..

» Three Things I Hate Most About Cable TV
01/07/09 10:58 from Dennis D. McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. The three things I hate most about Cable TV are: Paying for stuff I don't want The user experience Commercials 1. Paying for Stuff I Don't Want Whenever I get one of those “we've changed your cable tv lin..

» For Government Contracting, Defining "Inherently Governmental" is Inherently Difficult
23/06/09 19:51 from Dennis D. McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. True story: “We only had 4 days to respond. They wanted a fixed price bid,” my colleague told me over the phone, sighing. A week before I had responded to his hasty proposal text request in the midd..

» McKinney Interviews Cochran about First HP Pocket Scientific Calculator
22/06/09 11:57 from Dennis D. McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the podcast of Phil McKinney 's interview with David Cochran about Cochran's involvement on the team at Hewlett-Packard (HP) that designed the first pocket scientific calculato..

» NAME WITHHELD asks about Web 2.0 for Disaster Planning & Response
16/06/09 20:48 from Dennis D. McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. I recently received an email request asking for help from a state emergency management professional who’s interested in Web 2.0. I didn’t discourage him from using the term “Web 2.0.” I ..

» Are Two Social Media Cultures Evolving?
15/06/09 06:47 from Dennis D. McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. Jeremiah Owyang's recent blog post Looking Behind the Curtains on the Social Media Stage: Humans Don’t Scale got me wondering whether there are really two different social media cultures evolving. Jeremia..

» More Thoughts About "Web 2.0 and Sales Process Management"
09/06/09 20:00 from Dennis D. McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. My survey-based report Web 2.0 and Sales Process Management is now available in its published form via The Customer Collective and Social Media Today . Based on my own experience with both doing and managing sa..

» How Transparent is the new FDA Transparency Blog?
05/06/09 16:36 from Dennis D. McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY
By Dennis McDonald, Ph.D. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established a Transparency Task Force. One of its first public facing activities is the creation of the FDA Transparency Blog . This is what the Task Force page says a..

» Wave Asks, Do You Like Your Project Collaboration Hard or Soft?
29/05/09 07:26 from Dennis D. McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY
  By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. I had lunch with a fellow consultant recently. We talked about how some complex software-based collaboration systems get used and how some don't. Sometimes the problem is with the software, and sometimes ..

» An Inspiring New Movie about Imagination, Innovation, Science, and Engineering
22/05/09 15:53 from Dennis D. McDonald's MANAGING TECHNOLOGY
By Dennis D. McDonald, Ph.D. I was fortunate this week to attend a screening at the National Academies of the new film, Imagine It! , a work by Rudy Poe and Richard Tavener of Infinite Loop Media LLC. This 50 minute film, still in producti..