This. is. PORTAL!! [comic]

Not to rain on anyone's parade or anything, but PA did this in a much nicer way much earlier..

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Adobe AIR 1.0

We have started to use AIR and FLEX in our development process. We hope to have some real productivity gains for us and our users.

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Since you've been gone...

This morning I have had 3 meetings, and in each one the major theme was communication. How do you foster the right amount and kind of communication in large organizations?

Organizational Structure

I have been thinking about organizational structure for a long time, even before our agency released the new org chart that described the big changes in store for our organization. Communicating an organizational shift is very hard, and can take a long time and a lot of effort.

I have a feeling that more discourse is needed to understand the role of technology in our agency, and how we can leverage it to better serve our customers.

Innovation doesn't happen on it's own. It has to be nurtured and tended to. The right culture and the right types of leadership must be put into place to foster innovation.

Lunch Meeting with Chip and Melissa

I love these two people. I haven't seen an example of two people more committed to their business, and to each other, in forever. They run one of the oldest professional schools.

ed.sc.gov

Well, this past week has been very busy. I think that our guys put in about 3 regular weeks during that one week. We got the new layout up and running at http://ed.sc.gov and we presented on Google stuff at the Webmaster's meeting. (I am sure that link will change soon.. making it irrelevant.) That was fun. I hassled Berry about trying to heckle me during my presentation. We also put in some purchasing stuff and we are working on like 3 or 4 different web applications.

Nursery Road PTA

Well, it looks like I am doing more than just one web site now. I have started working on several different sites. This is not what I expected 3 months ago. I was looking to do less actual work, and more leadership. Maybe that will still come about.