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I don't believe in gamifying enterprise applications . As I have argued before, the primary drivers behind revenue and valuation of consumer software companies are number of users, traffic (unique views), and engagement (average time spent + conversion). This is why gamification is critical to consumer applications since it is an effort to increase the adoption of an application amongst the users and maintain the stickiness so that the users keep coming back and enjoy using the application. This isn't true for enterprise applications at all. This is not only not true for enterprise applications, but gamifying enterprise applications is couterproductive that makes existing task more complex and creates an artificial carrot that does not quite work. A design philosophy that we really need for enterprise applications is flow. I am a big fan of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his book " Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience ." I would highly recommend you to read it. Mih

by Dennis Brouwer     (Repost from ThinkGig. Thanks for letting me contribute to your ebook!! - Kevin Jackson ) Human-like technology. The potential downfall of the data center . Hyper-personalization of data. These are some of the responses IT leaders gave to us when we asked, “What will business technology look like in 2020?” In 2020, tech experts say, computers could learn from experience, much like the human brain. The end of the data center as we know it might arrive. And technology will know the most important things about us to help us become more productive. In our new ebook, Business Technology 2020 , the experts — who represent organizations such as Intel, IBM, Frost and Sullivan, Aberdeen, ATLANTIC-ACM and Current Analysis and more — also cover topics that include the cloud, health care, cognitive computing and the role of the CIO, giving a holistic preview of how technology will impact your business in and leading up to 2020. Download it today! (

A big THANK YOU goes out today to KCUR-FM Central Standard host Jabulani Leffall , producer   Matthew Long-Middleton ,and associate producer Danie Alexander for having me as a guest on this morning's show! Today the focus was on the US Government's mandate that federal agencies consider cloud computing as they make new IT investments. Along with Joe Tierney from Umzuzu , a Kansas City cloud service company, we discussed cloud computing benefits and challenges. I also had the opportunity to discuss my new book, GovCloud II: Implementation and Cloud Brokerage Services . Hear the podcast online at: http://kcur.org/post/government-cloud  Enlarge image ( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article , get free updates by email or RSS - © Copyright Kevin L. Jackson 2012 )

I go to a lot of conferences and quite a few people, including the ones that I mentor, have asked me how they can effectively network at a conference. Here are five simple but effective tips. Start practicing them at local meetups and refine them for large conferences. Connect before the conference:  Your networking efforts should start as soon as you decide to go to a conference or even before that. Go through the speaker list and search Twitter exhaustively to find and follow these folks, either directly or via a list. Interact with these speakers on Twitter to ask them meaningful questions. Also ask them if you can have 5 minutes of their time at the conference. Look up on LinkedIn and Plancast to identify who is going to be at the conference. Ask the organizer to send you a list of attendees. Some organizers would happily oblige. If any of these folks sound interesting, follow them on Twitter and reach out to them with a request to see them at the conference. Be specific about why

Las Vegas., Nov. 15, 2012 — NJVC , an information technology solutions provider headquartered in Northern Virginia, announces it will spotlight its Cloudcuity ™ framework for delivering secure and unified cloud management solutions at the Gartner Data Center Conference , December 3 – 6, at The Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino ® in Las Vegas. The company’s cloud brokerage, cyber analytics, IT enterprise management virtual storefront and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) tools will be featured at booth 511 on the exposition floor. Through demonstrations and one-on-one meetings, attendees will be able to learn about the following Cloudcuity solutions: Cloudcuity AppDeployer – A new and innovative PaaS that allows software developers to quickly create and publish marketable software-as-a-service applications. Using AppDeployer, developers and independent software vendors can start building applications at no cost, and take enterprise-class software systems to market in weeks instea

VIENNA, Va., Nov. 8, 2012— NJVC , an information technology (IT) solutions provider headquartered in northern Virginia, is pleased to announce that Kevin L. Jackson , vice president and general manager, cloud services, launched his second book, GovCloud II: Implementation and Cloud Brokerage Services —published by Government Training, Inc. This handbook, geared to IT professionals and senior decision makers in both the public and private sectors, explains how the cloud computing economic model can provide enhanced mission or business capabilities without commensurate increases in resource expenditures.    “Too often in the past federal IT projects ran over budget, were behind schedule or failed to deliver promised functionality,” Jackson said. “The cloud computing economic model can reduce or eliminate the expectation of operations and sustainment costs. The time required to realize mission or business value also is substantially reduced. Through this model, the impossible