After my trip last week to Atlanta and back I remember why I’m glad I don’t do long-haul travel much. What a hassle. And today’s Saturday and I’m nursing a cold I picked up. Honestly, how do people who travel a lot to business meetings this time of year stay alive?

Actually, the reason for the FICenter meeting wasn’t just to pose for the corny picture posted below but to discuss the outcomes of the NVHA Innovations conference. The conference was a roaring success. It was well thought out, well run, had excellent faculty, excellent multi-agency participants, and left everyone fired-up to venture into the world of Internet social commentary. Kudos, ...

Following the NVHA Innovations conference the Futuring and Innovation Center bunch met. Here (L to R) Jim McGovern, Jackie Young and Kris Kim look over the shoulder of Tom Willner as he demonstrates "the Link," the extranet that some ACS divisions have rolled out. (Doesn’t this pic look like a photo a small town newspaper would take for a local ...

Every spring–and spring is in full swing here on the West Coast–a lovely bunch of daffodils perched on the embankment of a road I drive to the office puts on the display seen above. The thing is it gets a little bigger every year. They’re essentially growing wild and are tended by no one. This year I resolved to get ...