The Other James Brown
Public Sector, Identity, Privacy and other bits...
Isn’t “Software + Services” just “Pragmatic Computing”
There has been an recent announcement from Google that they have extended GMail to work offline in...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 01/28/2009
Gov 2.0 Examples – Mayor of London
Boris Johnson the Mayor of London is now on twitter. However, just because you are on twitter...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 01/26/2009
Key learnings for Gov2.0 success
Edelman a global PR firm has released a whitepaper entitled ‘Barack Obama’s Social Media Toolkit’,...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 01/22/2009
Welcome to America 2.0…
With the inauguration of Barack Obama today in Washington, Web 2.0 has really come of age. ...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 01/20/2009
We are now twittering… https://twitter.com/OtherJamesBrown. Lets see how it goes!
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 01/19/2009
CSP in 2009
It was a really fantastic experience being involved in the launch of CSP in April 2008, and...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 01/15/2009
Environmental sustainability and IT
A number of articles caught my eye recently about the double edge sword that is environmental...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 01/12/2009
New W3C Accessibility standard released
The W3C has ratified a new 2.0 version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 01/06/2009
Overcoming Business Challenges when driving Virtualization
In the current economic climate, the need to reduce costs has never been greater. The public...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 12/19/2008
SharePoint Web Sites in Government
There are some great examples of Government web sites being hosted on SharePoint. The cost and...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 12/12/2008
Are more dynamic data centers the way forward?
There is a huge post well worth reading ‘Our vision for Generation 4 Modular Data Centers – One way...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 12/08/2008
Dynamics CRM Solution Accelerators
Congratulations to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM team who have released the first four of their...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 12/05/2008
SharePoint and CRM, which tool to use?
When I moved from my previous role into this one, I had to get up to speed on Dynamics CRM having...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 12/01/2008
Making Government Personal
There has been an ever growing momentum of people reporting on Obama’s use of technology – myself...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 11/14/2008
Single View Platform
While I was relaxing on holiday we unveiled the Single View Platform (SVP) at the US Geospatial...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 11/12/2008
Indexing Audio and Video Recordings
Catching up on blogs posts after my week off and came across this posting from Brett Roberts...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 11/10/2008
Is the time for Virtualisation now?
Over the last 24 hours I have seen a number of different mails and blogs all talk about...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 10/23/2008
Live Services Training
One of the most interesting aspects of the CSP work I am doing is how the Windows Live Services can...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 10/22/2008
It’s a small world (compared to social networking)
I have just spent the last few days presenting sessions on CSP to partners in Kuala Lumpur and...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 10/21/2008
Communicating with Citizens
I came across this article in the Financial Times a little while ago ‘Obama steals a march with...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 10/03/2008
So what is the Citizen Service Platform?
In my role at Microsoft, CSP (Citizen Service Platform) is taking up most of my time. So what...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 09/30/2008
Hi…
So after a number of years I thought if you cannot beat them, join them – blogging here we...
Author: TheOtherJamesBrown Date: 09/19/2008