Illinois benefits for veterans.

http://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/rights/Benefits%20for%20IL%20Veterans_2013.pdf


Thanks,

John

Announcing Open Source, Interactive Search on Hadoop

Sorry for how this appears in my post but it is an interesting article. If you consider the power of Hadoop and its possible impact  on making knowledge findable and organized with in context, integrating this technology into your current corporate search methodology may finally make this difference in the ability to actually find useful information. If you have trouble viewing this email, read the online version.   Open Source, Interactive Search on Hadoop Apache Hadoop™ is rapidly becoming the standard for Big Data management within the enterprise. Yet as enterprises continue to shift data and computing to Hadoop, the demand for a more familiar and rapid means to explore and interact with data in Hadoop is on the rise. Today, we are announcing new capabilities for Cloudera Enterprise, the Platform for Big Data, that continue our leadership in delivering what the enterprise requires to unaccept the status quo – the public beta of Cloudera Search. The Best of Search, The Best of Hadoop Cloudera Search brings full-text, interactive search and scalable indexing to your data in Hadoop. Cloudera Search adds to and extends the value of Apache Solr™, the enterprise standard for open source search. With Cloudera's 100% open source Big Data platform, CDH, Cloudera Search gains the same fault tolerance, scale, visibility, and flexibility provided to other workloads, like MapReduce, Apache Hive™, and Cloudera Impala. Cloudera Search amplifies the power of Hadoop: > Improved Big Data ROI – Now data scientists and non-technical users have a straightforward means to interact with data in Hadoop. > Faster Time to Insight – Quickly drill into and tie together time-sensitive, varied data sets for better understanding. > Streamlined Operations – Store, process, explore, and analyze within a single environment with centralized management, minimizing data movement. > Proven and Trusted Technologies – Merge two leading open source technologies for enterprise ready, large-scale data storage, processing, and search. Bring interactive search to your data in Hadoop — download Cloudera Search today. Kind regards, The Cloudera Team Cloudera Search Webinar Wednesday June 19, 2013 11AM-12PM PT More on Cloudera Search Learn more > Contact Us Email >     Cloudera, Inc. 220 Portage Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA Check us out online at cloudera.com or Contact Us Click here to unsubscribe ©2013 Cloudera, Inc. All rights reserved. Cloudera and the Cloudera logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cloudera Inc. in the USA and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. Information is subject to change without notice.

Generating Business Value Through Social

Generating Business Value Through Social:

A great slideshare from Christian Buckley on the generating value with social business.

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Making A Case For Social Collaboration Tools | Innovation Insights | Wired.com

Making A Case For Social Collaboration Tools | Innovation Insights | Wired.com:

Another argument for the Social Enterprise


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On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs - Dave Grossman

On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs - Dave Grossman:

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How Humana got 26,000 employees to use an internal social network | CITEworld

How Humana got 26,000 employees to use an internal social network | CITEworld:

One of the bigger deployments that I have heard of using Enterprise Social Networking to improve a number of functions with in a large corporation.

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SharePoint roadmap for 2013

http://blogs.office.com/b/sharepoint/archive/2013/03/19/yammer-and-sharepoint-enterprise-social-roadmap-update.aspx


Looks interesting

Enterprise Social Networking, A Combination of Old and New Technology | Visual.ly

Another great social business graph
	Enterprise Social Networking, A Combination of Old and New Technology | Visual.ly Source: visual.ly In with the New, Out with the Old. How Enterprise Social Networks are Changing the Future of Business

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Setting the record straight on social business collaboration

http://visual.ly/setting-record-straight-social-business-collaboration

This is a great graph that illustrates the power and influence of Enterprise Social Business.

Search | Visual.ly

Search | Visual.ly:

I came across this site that does what slideshare does but with pictographic images.  It has an excellent range of topics and the graphs are very good at illustrating any number of ideas or positions that you could use to influence or convey meaning in a straightforward way.

Since I deal with Social Enterprise this link is the result of a search for "social enterprise" but you could put any search you please and browse topics that interest you.

Have fun.

Begin Here | Three Thrifty Guys

Begin Here | Three Thrifty Guys:

This is a little out of the norm for my typical tech related posts, but this is a great site for ideas on how to save money.  I just read an article about Ooma, a Vonage alternative, I was impressed enough to give Ooma a try.

They have articles covering many money saving topics, from "how to save on your water bill" to product reviews.  I like that fact that they actually use the products for a period of time before they write the review.  To me this gives the site its chops.

#saving money, #thrifty

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Internet Topology - Massive and Amazing Graphs – Big Data News

http://www.bigdatanews.com/m/blogpost?id=6608741%3ABlogPost%3A2728


If you love big crazy complicated illustrations of huge amounts of data presented in a beautiful way this post from www.bigdatanews.com writen by Data Analytics expert Vincent Granville is for you.

Vincent did a couple of google searches of complicated illustrations and posted some of the results of his queries on this post.  The best thing that these graphs/pictures illustrate is the enormous complexity of information that we have generated.  The complexity further is reflected in the fact that the graphs represent many different types or genres of information that we generate.  When I say "we" I am referring to us as a species.  Each of us just by being alive generate a considerable amount of data points collected by various government entities and our further activities of just being alive and interacting within our own cultures create data points i.e. surfing the web, using a reward card, etc.  Then consider that some of us are in the business of generating further data about yet another set of huge variables.  The mountain of information is like looking at the stars in the sky, limitless.

So how do we make sense of this information, well the best way is via interactive visualizations and Vince has found some of the biggest and most attractive publicly available here in this post.  This further goes into how do you make a limitless view, well, more limited.  Many of these graphs have a interactive component that allows the user or viewer to drill down into the the meat and potatoes of the information if they choose too.  This method allows one to immediately make sense of what is ultimately a complex system and allows them to see the substituent parts that make up the data set as a whole.

Great work Mr Granville.

Good article about making the case for social collaboration for business

http://www.wired.com/insights/2013/03/making-a-case-for-social-collaboration-tools/

Yet another very good article about how social collaboration can significantly impact your organization for the positive. 

3 Common Enterprise Social Network Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them) - CIO.com

Very interesting article about the pitfalls of the"building it and they will come" methodology.

3 Common Enterprise Social Network Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them) - CIO.com:

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How to Set Up a Minecraft Server on Linux | DigitalOcean

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-a-minecraft-server-on-linux


This is the basic version of how to get a minecraft server running in your house so that you and the kids can all play in the same world at the same time.  Plus you don't have to worry about getting someone from the outside giving your kids a hard time.