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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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…

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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, … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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! … Continue reading

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