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New Gig

This past weekend I accepted an offer to join Monitor Group's Marketspace unit as Global Practice Leader for the Marketspace Advisory practice. 

OPA Breakfast Meeting: User Experience and Engagement

On Wednesday, Jeffrey Rayport and I attended an Online Publisher's Association breakfast in Boston.  On the agenda:  presentation and panel discussion of really interesting new research from the Northwestern University Media Management Center on the links between user experience and consequent engagement with web sites.

September 21: Business Blogs Lunch Talk at KM Cluster

Bill Ives and Amanda Watlington, who have just published a new book called "Business Blogs:  A Practical Guide"  have graciously invited me to speak at the September 21, 2005 meeting (postponed from June 7) of the New England KM Cluster  in Waltham at Novell's headquarters.  My lunchtime talk (title TBD) will be drawn from my own experience and from that of organizations like the 3E Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government  and from MIT's Sloan School of Management, both also covered in Bill and Amanda's new book.

See Bill's blog for an abstract of the talk.

June 20: Harvard KSG 3E Panel on Current Practices In Public Sector IT Program Management

On Monday, June 20, I'm moderating a panel at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.  The panel, entitled "Current Practices In Public Sector IT Program Management", is part of a three-day workshop run by Professor Jerry Mechling, who directs the E-Government Executive Education Project (3E) at the Kennedy School. 

Panelists include

• Phil Bertolini, CIO,Oakland County, Michigan
• Scott Campbell, Chief eHealth Strategist, Government of Ontario
  
• Gopal Kapur, President, Center for Project Management
• Marty Wagner, Associate Administrator for Government-wide Policy, US General Services Administration
  

(Jerry recently won a Lifetime Achievement award from the National Association of State CIO's, and recently conducted an extended interview with Bill Gates you might find interesting.  Further, with IBM's support Jerry has been pioneering new e-learning techniques in the 3E Project's programs, using .LRN as his platform.)