Ed Dodds

""Face to face" apparently can be accomplished via HD Video, hence @Internet2: 6 global R&E networks intend to build the world’s1st 100Gbps intercontinental links by June 3 bit.ly/182d9vu and http://www.gloriad.org/gloriad..." - Ed Dodds

"So you interviewed Michael Clemens over the phone even though you sacrificed “the productivity effects of face-to-face interaction”; ironic, no? H1Bs are about institutionalized industry segment ageism (lower wages, lower health insurance costs to employers). Why don't business mags (and their advertisers) have the cojones to point out that the social experiment of tying health insurance to employment has failed and we need to decouple the two issues?" - Ed Dodds

"Please eliminate this comment if it violates the site's terms of use but I just was emailed that one can sign up for a notification of the audible version release of "Why Managing Sucks" which follows many of these thoughts #ROWE http://info.gorowe.com/notify-..." - Ed Dodds

"The "problem" with virtual offices is that local economic development professionals tend to be compensated on the basis of the creation of "more real estate" (which is code for a larger property TAX base ;-). Until taxing jurisdictions figure out the disincentives, well grumble... This is a reoccurring theme on Craig Settles' Gigabit Nation (see yesterday's http://www.blogtalkradio.com/g... though it is usually addressed under the topic of "home-based businesses". Maybe a @theGigCity type could address how #CHA has dealt with this. On a similar meme "Do You Work in a Cult Compound?" http://www.gorowe.com/blog/201..." - Ed Dodds

"Along the same lines, I just saw "A Case For Virtual Offices" http://southernalpha.com/gener... from our local|regional tech booster site. Again, not a panacea but definite something to have in the pallet of choices." - Ed Dodds

"The compound is a self-selecting filter which keeps folks who have family care-giving responsibilities out of the mix by necessity [it's called "institutional ageism"] -- at exactly the same time politicians on local, state and national levels will have to remove funding from social safety net programs in order to pay interest on unrestrained debt growth. See Jim Clifton on why this is exactly the wrong direction the US needs to be moving in http://thechairmansblog.gallup... and Craig Settles and Mark Ansboury on an alternate vision http://www.blogtalkradio.com/g..." - Ed Dodds

"Would go well with the transparency promised by the DATA Act a la datacoalition.org #accountability" - Ed Dodds

"It would be cool if things like TIOBE Programming Community Index could be tied to geographies as well. Also, it seems like VCs in the SV often encourage "new" programming languages to keep their talent from being poached by firms using "legacy" tech; Scala for example." - Ed Dodds

"Will this book be offered in audio format at any point?" - Ed Dodds

"And it will be streamed online for maximum effect, right?" - Ed Dodds

"Technology Nashville group on Linkedin currently has 3,656 members but it could always use more http://www.linkedin.com/groups..." - Ed Dodds

"RE: nagging tech worker shortage - Wouldn't it be cool if some tech site (hint, hint) hosted a wiki which could be used to track bogus job ad postings (for already decided internal transfers), HR departments which use intentionally inaccurate job descriptions, ageism, unscrupulous recruiters, scrupulous recruiters, antiquarian tech infrastructures, H1B visa abuses, etc.?" - Ed Dodds

"Hyperbole follows (maybe): The reality is for a lot of C-Suite types anything that smacks of a "perk" is to remain in the C-Suite; they've earned it after all--put in the hard work, sacrificed their marriages, beat the dog, you get the picture. (Of course, they can't say that out loud). The minions on the line are not worthy of managing their own time (a C-Suite perk)--or they would not be minions on the line. It has occurred to me recently that ROWE is a current expression of social justice in the workplace (MLK, Old Testament prophets, etc.)--and a lot of corp types know that its OK to use "those words" in PR as long as the words don't actually impact their power structure (why we have no "Say on Pay" in annual share holder meetings, tiered stock arrangements, unindighted banksters, etc.). It also occurred to me that "Sludge" is the work place term for the concept the apostle Paul expressed in his writings to the church at Colossae about avoiding certain rituals which looked good to..." - Ed Dodds

"Thank so much for all the support you've (Telalink|Sitemason) shown the Nashville nonprofit sector generally and UCP of Mid TN specifically. I'm going to pass the post to Diane Dietrich and Deana Claiborne so they can see the cutting edge 1997 Casual Day reference and link to a previous incarnation of the web site!" - Ed Dodds

"ROWE has one fundamental flaw as seen by inhabitants of the US C-Suite -- it reduces everything to metrics. An those inhabitants know they cannot justify their current compensation packages against their own personal metrics. This is the same reason why they stall embedding extensible business reporting language within their IT processes and infrastructure, the same reason they resist "Say on Pay" measures at shareholder meetings and real-time disclosure of corporate lobbying in state and federal elections. Since it is not proper PR to speak about the self-reinforcing system of corporate board membership (why aren't there that many women board seats again?) you need to come up with some other biz school speak to feed the media beast. Contrarily, John Seely Brown makes an interesting point that the purpose of "old" firms was to lower transaction costs (you're disposable) where the "new" firms "competitive edge in the future will come from being able to build deeply innovative, new..." - Ed Dodds

"in the meantime, any coders with that "do gooder" urge are encouraged to contact United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee which, as the name does not imply, helps folks with all kinds of developmental disabilities -> more at www.ucpmidtn.org" - Ed Dodds

"Leaders Discuss How to Mobilize their Efforts for Impact at the 2013 CGI Winter Meeting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... One of things Bill Cinton points out is that a lot of social innovation is hitting a wall because we need much more innovative financial models." - Ed Dodds

"Nonprofits also tend to hire folks with disabilities who are turned away from for profits (in order to keep their group health insurance rates from increasing dramatically). The disabilities services sector of the economy is currently imploding, and no one in the press covers this (NPOs don't tend to buy full page ads in the WSJ so there's no financial reason to prioritize them). So the part of the social safety net is decaying -- hey, let's add a sequestration!" - Ed Dodds

"The real situation is not a talent dirth but a need for a massive sector consolidation. It is one of the few sectors which still hasn't figured out that if they were to cloudify their infrastructure they could eliminate 60% + of the redundant capex and opex. Actually they do know -- but the nonprofit sector often hires people as a way to train them to have meaningful job skills as a transition to the for profit world (typical church secretary). They know that standardization of data (anyone here remember the NP XBRL initiative?) will mean massive outsourcing of the few jobs which aren't eliminated by the infra upgrade." - Ed Dodds

"The World Bank livestreams last week featured microwork opportunities which were breaking out all over Africa as the great global grid is being built and connectivity becomes available and economical. Unfortunately, management there only looks at results as a metric of success and aren't as enlightened as US management which knows butts-in-seats-in-cubeville is the true measure of progress." - Ed Dodds

"http://beta.blogtalkradio.com/... via @cjsettles fyi" - Ed Dodds

"If you have not yet, check out GLORIAD.org , Greg Cole et al's effort -- see especially http://viz.gloriad.org/dvnoc/d... and click on the GLORIAD-EARTH link (wasn't working yesterday) and TAJ to see real-time global application sharing activity. GLORIAD strives to link National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) Ours is Internet2 (also National LambdaRail) See wikipedia for details of the mostly media-ignored global build out of the great global grid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N..." - Ed Dodds

"speaking of air innovations, Social Flights, LLC www.linkedin.com/company/16287... The main site says: Welcome to Social Flights Our website is currently under construction. Please check back in the future for all of your charter needs." - Ed Dodds

"http://posscon.org/ @posscon is roughly over in the same state end of March, too, fwiw" - Ed Dodds

"Cal, your point about the need for pervasive bandwidth is spot on. 1) Management mindset: @emilychangtv @GavinNewsom talked about San Francisco having a talent war vs. LA having a 25% unemployment level in http://t.co/TBef61pNqH . Part of this challenge is that even if the bandwith exists (or could), if management doesn't trust its employees (ROWE) then the love of cubeville will prevail. Midlevel managers who can't (or won't -- to prevent being outsourced) reduce requirements to a workflow database (or whathaveyou), you're still stuck with the same cuting edge 1970s end product. Valley VCs tend to hate remote workers {Vic Gatto can provide insights yea or nay for Nashville} and Marissa Meyer just did that power thang over at Yahoo. 2) EcoDev tax structures: Craig Settles @cjsettles via Gigabit Nation has been talking this meme for a year and a half ( see past shows at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/g... ). One of the difficulties on the economic development side is that ecodev..." - Ed Dodds

"Speaking of news timeliness, have you seen the http://nashvilleretrospect.com... ?" - Ed Dodds

"Recently in #ATL the SNAP was launched with NSF, US Ignite and several ed partners. Of note is the software defined networking baked into the data center fabric http://www.datacenterknowledge..." - Ed Dodds

"http://www.weforum.org/events/... Clayton Christensen gettin' all touchy feely at World Economic Forum saying investing in people is the right move in an economy where cost of capital is ZERO #pish posh respond the C-Suiters ;-) #need_more_yauchts" - Ed Dodds

"The problem is that IT employees are the only ones outside of the finance function to be able to scry the information in the databases for the perks, etc. that the C-Suites don't want generally disclosed (they usually only show up in SEC filing footnotes -- in Latin ;-) As such, experienced workers (the ones who have learned all the C-speak code) are perceived as a potential threat (don't want that information "democratized", if ya know what I mean). See also datacoalition.org re: Congress and FedGov." - Ed Dodds

"Do you guys ever talk ROWE enablement with Gary Evans, President and CEO at Hiawatha Broadband Communications? Please see http://us-ignite.org/2013/01/c..." - Ed Dodds