New York’s professional philanthropic community showed up at Gracie Mansion to celebrate the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers’ twenty-fifth anniversary. I was invited because two years ago I worked for NYRAG. The mansion had a lot of wood and expensive furniture. The awards ceremony […]

Nomi Prins talked about her new book, Other People’s Money, at a conversation sponsored by the Demos think tank. She is a former investment banker who blames politicians for letting businesses hurt consumers and citizens. Prins said that deregulation of banking, telecommunications and energy industries […]

The blare of talk radio and 24/7 cable news reminds us that political communication is like the nuclear arms race of the Cold War. Each side feels the need to create weapons (talking points) and worries that unilaterally disarming (being candid) will be a damning […]

It just wasn’t even close. In a debate sponsored by the New York Software Industry Association, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform got lost a debate against former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt about which presidential candidate would be better for the IT industry. Hundt […]

It just wasn’t about Sarbanes-Oxley. Nope, this vendor sponsored seminar also dealt with other requirements for regulatory compliance, like HIPAA in healthcare and ISO 18501/18509 in manufacturing. In fact, a lot of requirements for storing data are for internal compliance. Marc Farley said that legal […]

After attending this event, I had to put up a posting. I came to the event wanting to know why people should care about what someone else has to say. The speakers had some opinions on this subject. Daniel Radosh (www.radosh.net) believes blogs are great […]