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When my good friend Jeremy Geelan invited me to speak at CloudExpo Europe in Prague, Czech Republic my imagination went into overdrive.  Being a child of the 60's and a retired US military officer, my memories of a dark time flooded my mind.  I imagined a throwback world, full of retired spies in old trench coats, trying to catch up to the 21st century. I am now, quite frankly, embarrassed by those prejudiced and dated thoughts. Prague is not only a wonderful and beautiful city, but served as an outstanding host  for CloudExpo Europe 2010. Jeremy, please invite me again!! On a more capitalist note, Prague also proved to be an excellent place for business. Europe seems to be serious about understanding cloud computing and the attendees proved to be a skeptical bunch. In my session, International Collaboration on Cloud Computing , the questions centered on why the United States government was being so aggressive in its adoption of cloud computing. After doing a short demo of Data.

Last week in Brussels, Belgium, the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium highlighted it's support of collaboration and interoperability through an information exchange session with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and an impressive lab interoperability demonstration . As published in Defense News , the "lab interoperability framework" demonstration was designed to show how different players could share an operational picture of an area. The NCOIC pointed to the recent Haiti operation or the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as examples where different networks or countries could communicate using these standards. Customers could be NATO, the European Union, civilians, governments or industry. The standards will be published free of charge for public use later this year after the NCOIC gives final approval. The NCOIC says that using its lab interoperability framework can save companies approximately $200,000 per event in labor costs, shorten execution t

Thank you to Radiah Givens-Nunez and GovLoop for the honor of being their Member of the Week for June 21-25, 2010. Created in 2008, GovLoop is an online social network for government community around the world. Founded by Steve Ressler the "Facebook for Government" currently has over 30,000 members. Radiah is a social media consultant who helps organizations create successful social media strategies that extends their brand beyond traditional media platforms. Other GovLoop members that also received this honor include: Joshua Salmons Sandy Ressler NASA's Beth Beck Mark Gorkin a.k.a."The Stress Doc" Tariq Piracha Luke Fretwell Benjamin Strong ( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - KLJ )

We just finished up five AWESOME days of cloud computing training with USAREUR in Schwetzingen, Germany ! CHECK IT OUT !! Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com. Sure we had fun, but we worked hard and learned a lot.  Check out these final presentations. USAREUR Cloud Computing Training Class Presentation Heidelberg 1 View more presentations from Kevin Jackson . USAREUR Cloud Computing Training Class Presentation Heidelberg 2 View more presentations from Kevin Jackson . USAREUR Cloud Computing Training Class Heidelberg 3 View more presentations from Kevin Jackson . I would like to publicly thank the entire class for their hard work and valuable contribution to this mutually enriching experience. On to Stuttgart !! ( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - KLJ )

Social CRM has arrived. My fellow bloggers and analysts friends Jeremiah Owyang , Ray Wang , Esteban Kolsky , Paul Greenberg , Sameer Patel , Oliver Marks , Jeff Nolan , and countless others have done a great job in defining the attributes, characteristics, and value proposition of social CRM. The recent acquisitions - Lithium acquiring Scout Labs, Attensity acquiring Biz360, and Jive acquiring Filtrbox - have clearly indicated the market interest in social CRM. There are also tons of emerging start-ups in this domain solving specific problems in niche sub-categories of social CRM. However, social CRM is only the first half of a social enterprise. Let me be that idiot for a minute who over-simplifies enterprise software and its evolution. The traditional ERP, MRP, and SCM software were designed for automation and productivity to improve the bottom-line, scale the business, and make informed decisions. The CRM was essentially designed to sell and market better and eventually to support

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is looking to leverage industry expertise through collaboration with the Network Centic Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) . NGA provides timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security objectives. NCOIC's  mission is to facilitate global realization of the benefit inherent in Network Centric Operations.  To that end, they seek to enable continuously increasing levels of interoperability across the spectrum of joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational industrial and commercial operations.  Both organizations are looking to this collaborative effort to help enhance worldwide sharing of geospatial intelligence. The term “geospatial intelligence” (GEOINT) means the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth. Geospatial intelligence consists of imag