"AT&T's top lobbyist, Jim Cicconi, sent a letter to all of the telecom giant's 300,000 employees on Sunday, urging them to express their concerns over a net neutrality proposal under consideration by the Federal Communications Commission."

"If your mind doesn’t trust you’re looking at that choice often enough (Are we doing anything about this??), it will take the job back. The Weekly Review is gold. It’s not just clean-up time, it’s reassurance time for your mind that you’re “on it,” even if that’s a decision to let it incubate some more on Someday."

"Yeesh, it feels uncomfortable to even say that! “Hello, my name is Meghan and my work is never done.” But, it’s true. And the more I practice saying it, the more I believe it, and the less I feel compelled to keep my inboxes at zero all the time (which, I can tell you from experience, is a losing game). The more I believe that I’m never done, the more I can choose to close my computer at 5pm and give my kids my full attention or keep my iPhone turned off on a date with my husband. These things are just as — if not more — important that my inbox or my desktop."

"Archer Technologies, a provider of enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions, today reached a major milestone with the certification of the 1,000th GRC industry professional on its award-winning Archer SmartSuite Framework."

"Roles can definitely help you out with compliance, but you are correct — role maintenance is definitely a challenge. There is often an implicit assumption that roles, like the rest of the application configuration, are static, when in reality roles tend be dynamic so you absolutely need a process for adapting roles as necessary. Often the complexity of the application causes admins to add roles rather then edit the existing ones because it is easier in the short term. But in the long run this causes extra complexity. I'll go into more details on this issue and how to deal with it in a later post, so stay tuned. In the meantime, NIST recently published some documents from their recent Privilege (Access) Management Workshop. In particular, you should check out A Survey of Access Control Models, to give you an idea of some ways that role based access control is problematic."

"The key ideas at play here:

• Focus on realizable value to the customer (outside-in development), not tractable tasks (inside-out development).
• Collaboration with a UX professional is key to driving “interface requirements.”
• Deliver frequently and valuably, get feedback (learn), and incorporate that knowledge into whatever is next."

"In short: To the extent data is volatile, copies of it leak value. If the chain of evidence between its authoritative source and a recipient of data is broken, it quickly becomes value-free. And if the chain of authorization breaks, you’ve got digital shadow cruft. Why oh why can’t we get to a place where, as Scott Cantor put it to me once, identity-aware apps think in terms of data caching rather than data replication?"

"The key is to help buyers manage their offline change issues prior to our attempts to focus them on solving the problem. When we don't do this, or our buyers can't do it on their own, the decision made is to do nothing at all. The system wins the battle to maintain status quo."

"Programmatically, there are two types of “master programs”, underneath which there will likely be many variations. However, at the “master” level, we are either driving/developing new leads, or we are nurturing a prospect database or our own internal customer base. It’s important to recognize that different tactics, messaging, and timing will apply."

"The first session — a panel featuring Kaiser Permanente, Genesco Retail, Radio Shack, Jones Apparel, and adidas America introduced a theme that was carried throughout the day: That one of the greatest challenges for interactive marketers today is getting support and cooperation from their traditional brand marketing colleagues."

"Madan Bharadwaj, the architect of Bluestreak's data analytics solutions boiled attribution down to three steps:

1) Organizing user path data — determining the path a user takes to purchase
2) Contribution modeling — evalutating the different influences along this path
3) Cross-channel optimization — applying these insights to make media allocation decisions"

"That's why you need a content strategy. It's not just about "what do we send next?" Nurturing is about knowing and planning for how we respond when we get a YES. Interactive marketing means your nurturing program is a two-way street."

"You have to love a situation where the entity performing the risk assessment for a different entity (patients) is always negatively impacted by disclosure, and never impacted by secrecy. In other words, the group that would be harmed by protecting you gets to decide your risk."

"So it's not enough to just solve the process problem, but in the long run, you will also need to deal with some fundamental business and IT cultural issues of how applications are handled. Essentially, IT will have to become a lot more agile in its ability to respond to changing business needs. While this is hardly limited to the IDM space, IDM nicely highlights the issue. After all, if the roles are meaningless, knowing who has what role may be helpful from an incident response or investigation standpoint, but cannot really help understand your risk or compliance profile."

"The example is bed nets in Africa but the lesson applies to any product or market. Knowing what keeps your potential customers up at night — whether it's mosquitoes or cost or competition — is key to crafting the right messages."

"If requirements are the information that technology teams need to avoid making costly mistakes, then requirements gathering and analysis should be an ongoing activity. While that's certainly true in some PM teams that I've met during my time as a Forrester analyst, in the aggregate, these peaks and valleys of activity still define the requirements landscape for many PMs."

"The newest enhancement to DirectAXs is the Identity Interceptor, a hardware appliance (or software only, based on customer preference) installed on premise to communicate between the customer and the cloud. Typical enterprise deployments require 20-100 applications to be individually integrated into the IAM suite. The Identity Interceptor connects to all applications for user provisioning, single sign on, role management and compliance, integrating them all at a single point. The Identity Interceptor also offers performance caching, dynamic routing, detailed auditing and logging, and continuous health monitoring with representative governance dashboards. For maximum security, all communication in transit is SSL encrypted, while all data at rest is 3DES encrypted. Only two TCP ports (HTTPS and SFTP) are open to the cloud."

"One of the major benefits of Role Manager 5 is its ability to report on the access permissions enjoyed by users and compare these with corporate policies. In future Sun plans to add integration with SIEM products to report on actual usage by employees with particular roles."

"The positioning of an organization determines how its products and services are perceived by their target market. If your target customers do not clearly understand what your organization does to solve their problems – or if they receive inconsistent messages from different sources – they will not be able to distinguish your value from the competitors. With no differentiation, the lowest price will rule the day. Once this happens your value proposition may as well be “me too.”

A positioning statement is not the same as a slogan or tag line. A powerful positioning statement should have 4 fundamental elements:

1. The target customer/market
2. The compelling need or benefit to target market
3. The name of your solution or brand
4. The manner in which you satisfy the need and how it is different from the competition"