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• Most expensive Holiday Gift list
  Date: 12/20/2007
  Do you have some extra cash to spend on gifts? Has your executive comp package paid out better for you this year? Then you are going to want to check out Pocketchange.com. The website tracks the most expensive list from stuffed animals ($12,000 Wooly Mammoth) to $2,000 / lb chocolate.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• CEO "In or Out of your business" quiz
  Date: 12/13/2007
  "Copy This" is a recent business book written by Paul Orfalea, the kinky haired Founder and CEO of Kinko's. He named his business "Kinko's" after his college curly headed nickname. His extreme Dyslexia places him in the very good CEO company of John Chambers - Cisco, Charles Schwab, Richard Branson, Craig McCaw and others. One of Orfalea's challenges was to not get caught up in the operation of the business and he quotes Benjamin Franklin who cautions CEO's to "Drive thy business and not let thy business drive thee". Paul Orfalea has a simple 7 question quiz you can take here to see if you know the difference between working on your business or working in your business.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• RSIS sold to Wyle
  Date: 12/06/2007
  Over the last few years, there’s been intense ongoing speculation among the government contracting crowd that RSIS was looking to be acquired. The company, which started as a small business and had been operating at around $300 Million, was now squarely in the “no man's land” of Government Contracting. That position in “no man's land” is because their revenue clearly qualified them as greater than small company status, but not large enough to be consider one of the major players.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Do you have CEO traits?
  Date: 11/29/2007
  Do you have the traits that three University of Chicago professors ranked as most important for CEO’s? An important finding was that the traits that might make you successful as an entrepreneur, are not those required once you are past that point. While this may be common knowledge, the most important traits might surprise you.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Merrill Lynch names new CEO
  Date: 11/15/2007
  Merrill Lynch has appointed NYSE CEO and former Goldman Sachs president John Thain as their new CEO. Mr. Thain will replace Stan O’Neal who was dismissed in the wake of a $7.9B write-down related to the “Subprime slime” that has been sticking to executives. Mr. Thain is currently scheduled to speak at the Potomac Officers Club in January. Hopefully Mr. Thain will maintain his planned trip to Washington so that executives here can have a chance to hear from him in person.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Capacity crowd shows up for Web 2.0
  Date: 11/08/2007
  Reston Hyatt, November 1st, with over 800 registered attendees, ExecutiveBiz held its largest ever event with participants from around the country flocking to the all day event. “The New-New Internet” offered 3 all day tracks with over 60 speakers including the opening keynote from a self described “New-New Ted Leonsis”. In addition to the three speaker tracks, ExecutiveBiz also hosted a Technology Showcase featuring technology companies from all over. The event is available via Video Webcast and was made possible by sponsors like SAIC, Citizant, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, NTT, Keane, Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology, Womble Carlyle and over 20 others!Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Apple worth more than IBM
  Date: 10/25/2007
  Did YOU buy the stock? With a market cap of $162 billion, Apple is now worth more than IBM at $156 billion. Hard to believe that Steve Jobs could accomplish this in such a short period of time. It makes you wonder if Google’s market cap of $157 billion might catch Microsoft’s staggering $291 billion. They are past the halfway point. Microsoft does not plan to sit still. CEO Steve Balmer announced Microsoft’s plans to acquire companies at a rate of about 20 per year for the next five years!Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Blame the designer – or adopt Crowdsourcing
  Date: 10/18/2007
  In the immortal words of consulting guru Tom Peters, “blame the designer!” We have the ability to take comfort when things go wrong because we can readily see a product's flaw. Like when the Starbucks lid allows coffee to splash out onto your white shirt. And you mutter “who designed this lid” along with a string of sailor approved expletives!
  
  Companies know that you know what you want. Interactive Web 2.0 technologies are now enabling businesses to use their customers to lead product design, create content and solve problems. “Crowdsourcing”, which allows people to take part in online discussions and vote on what the company should be doing, is already starting to take off.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Renny DiPentima to Speak at ExecutiveBiz
  Date: 10/11/2007
  Renny DiPentima has long been considered the dean of the IT community in the federal space. He was one of the first CIO’s in the government, at the Social Security Administration, and helped launch the federal CIO Council.
  
  DiPentima retired after 32 years in government and earlier this year announced his retirement at SRA. When DiPentima arrived at SRA 12 years ago, the company’s revenue was about $135 million — it’s now approximately $1.2 billion. Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Anchors Away - Navy CEO's
  Date: 10/04/2007
  I don’t have any empirical data to suggest which military branch produces the best or most CEO’s, but, I can’t help but get the feeling that there is an abundance of ex-Naval officers running large government contracting firms. Perhaps this can be best discussed in December at the annual Army Navy game (“The Game”). In the meantime, readers might be interested in reading our entertaining column aptly named “There must be something in the water”. We name several familiar Navy bosses like Jack London (CACI), Jerry Agee (Northrop), Brad Antle (SI International), Phil Nolan (Stanley), Bill Hoover (ASC) and Jim Ballard (Perot Federal). From the sidelines, I’d also offer some others like Jim Sheaffer (CSC), Dennis Kelly (TechTeam) and Joe Craver (SAIC) just to name a few.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• $10 Billion for Facebook
  Date: 09/27/2007
  Web 2.0 valuations continue to rise. In a surprising move, reported by the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is looking to invest in Facebook and would set value the new social media company at about $10 billion. Microsoft and Facebook have an existing advertising agreement to serve ads on the social network, which is growing daily. There is significant speculation that Google is also in the mix but the ultimate motives are yet to be confirmed. Read more here.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Ted Leonsis talks Web 2.0
  Date: 09/20/2007
  AOL is in the news and so is Ted Leonsis. Known for his love of technology and connecting to people, Ted Leonsis has embraced Facebook and other social media that represent the democratization of the internet. Be sure to read our interview with Ted Leonsis and see why Web 2.0 will change your business. Leonsis is scheduled to be the opening keynote for this year’s east coast Web 2.0 for Business event on November 1st. Click here to register.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• US Dollar falls to a 15 year low
  Date: 09/13/2007
  The US Dollar fell to a surprising 15-year low against a basket of currencies on September 11th and is under pressure in anticipation of the fed’s announcement next week. Experts are predicting a 1/4 to 1/2 point drop in interest rates and that is when we will have a clearer picture of the market reaction. The wildcard remains oil prices which have spiked again as a result of attacks on pipelines in Mexico.
  
  The US economy has become increasingly intertwined with Mexico as our significant continental partner. Add in pressure on exchange rates caused by emigration issues and cross border security as a catalyst for possible further declines. Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Facebook, the new Linked-In?
  Date: 09/06/2007
  I am not the only one that’s noticed my Facebook invitations are increasing and my Linked-In invitations are falling. Having well over 500 connections on Linked-In, I feel connected but stabilized in my number of connections. Facebook, on the other hand is building up steam.
  
  Facebook, once reserved for students, recently opened up their site to anyone that wanted to join. The response was overwhelming and The Wall St. Journal this week referred to Facebook as an “online gold rush”. It seems that Facebook is evolving past Linked-In because it is more customizable and allows independent developers to write applications that work within their user community. Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• A-Space, where secret people hang out
  Date: 08/30/2007
  Secret people like the CIA that is. This December, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) will be following the national Web 2.0 trend and plans to roll out a social networking platform called A-Space to tie the secret communities into a secret knot and connect people and agencies. This newly adopted technology will hopefully improve remote location communication, after hours communications and ease sharing challenges that affect an agency’s individual contributor’s ability to communicate. Broad based security like firewalls and restricted dialing make socializing even harder for the spy and intelligence communities and information sharing more complex.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Microsoft COO Kevin Turner to Speak
  Date: 08/23/2007
  Continuing a long string of appearances from top leaders, ExecutiveBiz and the Potomac Officers Club announced today that Kevin Turner, Microsoft COO, agreed to speak at a rare East Coast appearance on September 21st. Kevin will speak about delivering innovation to the market and strategically leveraging IT investments among his topics. The event is made possible by Microsoft and Unisys and should sell out quickly. POC and Executive members can register here.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• 4 Hour Work Week Author to Speak at Web 2.0 for Business Conference
  Date: 08/16/2007
  Timothy Ferriss, author of the current #1 New York Times best-selling book, The 4-Hour Workweek, will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming ExecutiveBiz technology conference on Web 2.0 for Business (including a special track for government) on November 1st. The conference is called The New New Internet and focuses on the latest internet technology affecting the near term business horizon. Although the event will be filled with technology executives, the event is geared more for the practical business impacts, ROI and the integration of technology into business processes; issues that concern everyone from the technophile to the technophobe.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Vicente Fox to Speak at POC
  Date: 08/09/2007
  It is rare, and an honor, to have a former head of state like Vicente Fox as an upcoming speaker at the Potomac Officers Club. Fox served as President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006 in a historically significant election. Fox’s unlikely defeat of the dominant IRP (Institutional Revolutionary Party) brought new promise to the county of Mexico. Educated at Harvard’s School of Business and a former president of Coca-Cola of Mexico, Fox brought a keen business sense to his presidency. Register for Vicente Fox. This event is expected to sell out early. This event is made possible by our sponsors Ernst & Young and Hogan & Hartson.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Blackboard reports 36% increase in revenue
  Date: 08/02/2007
  Michael Chasen, CEO of Blackboard announced yesterday that quarter over quarter revenues had increased 36% to almost $60 Million. Chasen, who will be speaking at the Potomac Officers Club on September 12th, has emerged as what many might call the “last man (dot com) standing”. A celebrity CEO of the Dot Com days, he is a rare exception in that he has survived and flourished as a local success story. Launching a successful IPO in 2004 and achieving a doubling of his stock price since that time, Chasen has demonstrated an ability to grow as a CEO along with the rapidly scaling organization he founded with Blackboard Chairman Matthew Pittinsky.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Ted Leonsis To Keynote at Web 2.0 for Business
  Date: 07/26/2007
  You can talk the talk but can you Blog the Blog? It’s easy to give advice but not always easy to live by the advice you give. Ted Leonsis is one of those rare folks who not only talks about cool technology but actually integrates it into his life. Blogs and blogging is something a lot of tech people talk about but don’t actually practice. Tech evangelist Ted Leonsis has espoused the “Wisdom of Crowds”, the Wisdom of Web 2.0 and the wisdom of blogging, He shares his daily take on an entertaining personal blog which he calls Ted’s Take.
  
  Be sure to register for The New New Internet, Web 2.0 for Business at the early bird rate and join the social media phenomenon. If you are looking for a good dose of Ted’s practical advice, look here.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• SunRocket Goes Out of Business; Disappoints Many
  Date: 07/19/2007
  Northern Virginia took yet another step away from its past reputation as a hub for telecom. The Dulles Tollroad now carries the names of government contractors in the place of what was once the prolific domain of a thriving telecom “who’s who”. If you happened to be one of SunRocket's customers, you might want to visit GigaOM to find out how to keep your phone number.
  
  GigaOM, run by visionary blogger Om Malik is ranked as one of the most popular Tech Bloggers in the internet universe. Om will also be speaking at the upcoming New New Internet event on November 1st. There's still time to get early bird rates before August 1st -- register here.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Carlyle Group Continues Buying Spree
  Date: 07/12/2007
  David Rubenstein, founder of The Carlyle Group, continued to make news this week with his companies announced plan to purchase Sequa Corp for $2.7 billion. With $58.5 billion under management, Carlyle has continued to raise money and buy companies. Recent purchase announcements have included ARINC, Manor Care, Allison Transmission (General Motors), Home Depot’s supply arm and many others. Carlyle senior advisor and former Editor in Chief of Time Inc’s 154 magazines Norman Pearlstine will be speaking locally at the Potomac Officers Club on July 26th.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Rock Star US Presidents
  Date: 07/05/2007
  From Roosevelt to Bush
  Jib Jab, the famous political cartoon company has produced another video gem just in time for this week’s celebration of Independence Day. Be sure to view this fun and high spirited celebratory clip that includes wonderfully compiled footage of our leaders who become rock stars.
  Web 2.0 Company LinkedIn files for IPO
  With less than $100 Million in revenue, LinkedIn is expected to be one of the biggest IPO’s on the Market’s radar this year. On November 1st the New New Internet event will feature Web 2.0 for Business and Government and continue the excitement.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• New Trend: The 4 Hour Workweek
  Date: 06/28/2007
  Are you working too many hours? On average, Americans are not only working more hours but feeling more anxiety according to CNBC. Author Timothy Ferris has written an enlightening view on “work” that have placed his book “The Four Hour Workweek” on the New York Times Bestseller list.
  
  While the CEO crowd might not be able to remain competitive in such an abbreviated workweek, they should read the book to ensure their workforce doesn’t try to unplug and join the vagabonding Ferris in his step by step manual. Having read (and enjoyed) the book myself, I really enjoyed Ferris’ perspective that we Americans live a lifestyle of deferred enjoyment. By the time we retire, life has passed us by. Ferris advocates a life that alternates between mini retirements and periods of meaningful work.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• The Buyback Wave
  Date: 06/21/2007
  How will you ride it? How will your company or portfolio benefit? Forbes Magazine columnist and money manger, Ken Fisher, talks about how a company’s low yielding cash can be used to retire high yield equity like your company stock. While dividends are nice, many investors feel buying back company stock with profits and available cash is better. Local company CACI International was mentioned by Forbes as a prime example of this investment strategy. We caught up with Jack London, CACI Chairman, President, and CEO, who commented, “Forbes has locked on to our strategy like a guided missile. Forbes recognizes our strategy to capitalize on a plan for strategic mergers and acquisitions that will contribute to CACI’s long term growth.”Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• High Tech Vatican?
  Date: 06/14/2007
  What do the Pope, Google, Dell, HP, Sun, Apple and IBM have in common?
  
  Technology firms aren’t the only ones trying to reduce energy costs, save electricity and decrease consumption of the earth’s resource. The Vatican is installing a large array of solar panels in an effort to reduce consumption and move to sustainable resource.
  
  Does your company have a hedge strategy against unstable, escalating and potentially explosive energy costs? Sign up for ExecutiveBiz’s July 19th event on how your company can work smarter, cheaper and more strategically and hedge against global warming and rising energy costs. Speakers will include Phillipe Cousteau (EarthEcho), Jonathan Lash (WRI), Jay Benforado (National Center for Environmental Innovation EPA), and Lori Duvall (Sun Microsystems).Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Search Engines, McAfee Says AOL Safest
  Date: 06/07/2007
  Careful which search engine you use. In research published on Monday by McAfee SiteAdvisor, 5.4 percent of Yahoo searches returned links to "risky" internet sites. Locally based AOL was found to be the safest of the top five, with 2.9 percent of sites.
  
  Nationally celebrated author, Don Peebles will be speaking at the Potomac Officers Club on June 27th. POC Members, register here. Mr. Peebles weaves business lessons through his own journey from government page to CEO of the largest Black owned Real Estate Development firm.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Microsoft shows off Surface
  Date: 05/31/2007
  Could that be Microsoft wow-ing everyone with exciting new technology? Move over Apple and Google, it seems the spotlight is on the boring spreadsheet guys from Redmond. The exciting new technology is called “Microsoft Surface” and was showcased in concept in Minority Report with Tom Cruise. It now seems the technology is alive and living at Microsoft.
  
  This is truly revolutionary technology and will take your computer desktop off your computer screen and put it on your actual desktop. One picture is worth a thousand words so use some Web 2.0 technology at YouTube to have a look.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Going Green is the Latest Corporate Buzz
  Date: 05/24/2007
  What does it mean to be green? It’s almost impossible to pick up a business magazine without something on the Green movement or Global Warming. At the opening of Wolf Trap this week, the Wolf Trap CEO Terry Jones announced that they were going officially green and that the opening festivities were “A Carbon-free event”. They also had the GEICO Gecko on hand at Wolf Trap but as green as he is, I am certain he wasn’t part of that message. But Dell Computer is part of that message. On Earth Day last month they and the EPA hauled away 40 tons of unwanted computer equipment from Washington DC by the truckload as part of their nationwide effort to meet a goal of collecting 275 million pounds of product from customers by 2009.
  
  This Green movement is no longer just a “West Coast Thing” and we have already heard Fairfax County Chairman Gerry Connolly declare that Fairfax will be the first green county and Governor Tim Kaine is putting increased spending pressure on the cleanup of the Potomac.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Web 2.0 Speaker Call
  Date: 05/17/2007
  The New New Internet concluded its spring IPv6 event with a record crowd for the all day event! If you missed it you should attend our all day training on IPv6 on June 21st.
  
  We are now on to the Fall New New Internet event which will feature Web 2.0 for Business and Government. We invite interested speakers to contact info@executivebiz.com for consideration. Last year's Web 2.0 event featured an all-star speaker line-up and more than 400 attendees. Who would you like to see speak at the region's biggest Web 2.0 conference? Tell us.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Where students want to go with their MBA
  Date: 05/10/2007
  In a recent Universum survey of MBA’s candidates, on where they would like to work, an interesting group of companies emerged. The real question that follows would be “Do these companies want MBA’s as badly as MBA’s want them? Survey results are at money.cnn.com.
  
  1. Google
  2. McKinsey & Company
  3. Goldman Sachs
  4. Bain & Company
  5. Boston Consulting Group
  6. Apple
  7. Microsoft
  8. General Electric
  9. Nike
  10. Bank of America
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• Are you a Linus, Alien or a Bill?
  Date: 05/03/2007
  Want to turn your home router into a money maker? If you have a Comcast internet connection you can become a “Foneros”. A What? Comcast struck a deal with the Spanish company Fon, which provides Foneros with a custom wireless router that can be used to “share” your internet connection. Depending upon how you feel about sharing, you can be one of the following Fon classifications ...Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Your life, according to Google
  Date: 04/26/2007
  If you liked Google Desktop, you are going to love Google’s new product Web History, which will be able to store and index all of your surfing and searching content. So if you regularly forget where you read something, saw something or bought something, have no fear, Google will remember for you. Google assures users that the information will be keep confidential and only collected if you have the Google tool bar activated.
  
  Some people may be asking “why would a company interested in keeping information about consumers confidential, be buying DoubleClick (the web’s largest consumer tracking company)?” Take our survey below.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Google spends $3.1B and also announces PowerPoint Competitor
  Date: 04/19/2007
  As if Google’s announcement to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion was not enough, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has confirmed that there will be a presentation layer for Google Docs & Spreadsheets. While Google has web-based applications for word processing and spreadsheet management, the addition of a Power Point-style presentation application could be the final step in turning Google's online office suite into what some consider a serious Microsoft Office competitor. Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• YouTube Launches CitizenTube
  Date: 04/12/2007
  YouTube has formally announced a new, official channel of political videos called CitizenTube. As the 2008 presidential race heats up, CitizenTube aims to aggregate the political videos already appearing in YouTube. And with CitizenTube, politicians and the voting public are free to be seen and heard. Politicians can showcase their propaganda and platform and the voting public can create their own video criticizing or praising political figures. ExecutiveBiz will be producing our annual Web 2.0 for Business conference in the fall of 07. Stay tuned for more details.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• DC is a Telecom Town (at least this month)
  Date: 04/05/2007
  Ignore IPv6 ... Lose your workers – That was the sentiment of Commerce Department’s Deputy CIO John McManus while speaking at FOSE this week. McManus is a chairman of the very prestigious IPv6 transition working group (read more here) and went on to say that some government were like “ostriches with their head in the sand” and were not moving fast enough. McManus will be speaking at the upcoming New New Internet Conference on May 10th along with Pete Tseronis, also a chairman of the IPv6 working group. Click here for more info on the New New Internet Conference.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Jim Duffey wins FCW Eagle award
  Date: 03/29/2007
  Federal Computer Week’s annual award event recognized Jim Duffey - The very prestigious Eagle award was given to Duffey for the support his firm EDS provided to the small business community. Jim Duffey is General Manager and VP of EDS’s US Public sector, a Potomac Officers Club Member and an enthusiastic board member of Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund. Hoop Dreams is run by well known and tireless non-profit executive Susie Kay, who will be honored on April 26 at the annual ”Bring Your Daughter to Work” day event (register here or learn more).Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Brigadier General Michelle Johnson to be honored
  Date: 03/22/2007
  The annual ExecutiveBiz/POC “Bring Your Daughter to Work Day” event will also feature General Johnson as a role model as we highlight accomplished women and the role they play. Johnson, a Rhode Scholar, a Command Rated Pilot with over 3600 hours flying a variety of planes including the huge C5–a. Johnson is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and Harvard’s Executive Fellow program, a recipient of multiple commendations, various awards and the mother of twin boys. General Johnson will appear along with Kathleen Matthews and Susie Kay of Hoop Dreams. Hopefully your company will provide a meaningful way to demonstrate your commitment to this great cause. Just in case you need a little additional motivation, DC Modern Luxury Magazine and Peter Abrahams will be giving out gift bags to every daughter in attendance (that will be sure to make moms jealous). The event is being held on Thursday, April 26.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Governor Kaine Talks Transportation at the POC
  Date: 03/15/2007
  Governor Kaine will appear at the POC
  A bi-partisan transportation bill has been approved by the Virginia House of Delegates and State Senate and is now sitting on the Governor’s desk. Governor Kaine has publicly said he would like to sit down with state leaders and make additional changes. This question, the planned Metro through Tyson’s and many other hot topics will be covered in this executive session on March 22nd.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Kathleen Matthews to Speak at Bring Your Daughter to Work Day
  Date: 03/08/2007
  Put your family first and invite your daughter to a memorable and inspiring luncheon event on April 26th at the McLean Hilton designed to celebrate successful women, honor role models and smash the glass ceilings. Instead of having your daughter hang around the office or worse yet, not be included in the celebration of “Bring Your Daughter to Work Day”, plan to attend this very special event. Participation is for members of the Potomac Officers Club and ExecutiveBiz and their selected employees.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Renny DiPentima Retires. SRA names new head.
  Date: 03/01/2007
  CEO Renny DiPentima announces his retirement from SRA. The new SRA president and CEO will be Stan Sloan who comes to the company from Lockheed Martin. One of the first CIO’s in the government, at the Social Security Administration, and someone who helped launch the federal CIO Council, Renny DiPentima has long been considered the dean of the IT community.
  
  Successful IPv6 is hot
  Don’t miss the spring session of The New New Internet and our all day event focusing on IPv6. Special rates for Government and early birds -- register now.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Oprah and Howard Stern, a match made in the heavens?
  Date: 02/22/2007
  Oprah and Howard Stern may be sharing a satellite soon. The unlikely couple are the most visible assets of the satellite radio business. Howard and Oprah are at the heart of the XM – Sirius listener’s merger discussions. The combination makes sense to many of the loyal listeners that are currently forced to choose their favorite talk personality. Will it pass the scrutiny of the federal regulators?Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Obama is ranked first on the technology watch
  Date: 02/15/2007
  Politicians using Web 2.0 technology could be the deciding factor in the upcoming election so a great many eyes are focused on who will utilize this technology best. techPresident is a blog that is tracking candidates on a numeric basis. Right now, Obama is commanding a significant lead. The site features a sidebar that shows the number of “Friends” each candidate has attracted.
  
  The world is indeed flat and one of the biggest flatteners, UPS Chairman and CEO Michael Eskew will be speaking at the Potomac Officers Club on February 22nd. UPS has won international recognition for their ability to think locally and conquer globally.
  
  Governor Kaine to Speak at the POC.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• MicroStrategy Buys a Private Jet
  Date: 02/08/2007
  $46 Million for a corporate jet only seems like a lot of money if you can’t afford it. I guess the good news for Michael Saylor and company is that they have famous mega wealthy investor Warren Buffet on their side. As corporate legend goes, Buffet once gained notoriety for renaming his own corporate jet from its original moniker of “Indefensible” to a more realistic name of “Indispensable”. The plane is due in 2009 and its purchase price is more than double their most recent quarterly profit.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Mark Ein Buys Kastle, Exclusive Interview
  Date: 02/01/2007
  Kastle Systems (a DC-based company with about 450 employees that secures more than 1,800 properties in the United States and the world) was recently purchased by local venture capitalist and Potomac Officers Club board member, Mark Ein. Ein is also founder and CEO of D.C.-based Venturehouse Holdings. Click here to read the exclusive interview.
  
  Time Magazine reported on China as the "Dawn of a New Empire" - The New Silk Road. An interesting historical parallel was also written about on The Weekend Economist that described an eerie similarity between the fall of the Roman Empire and the current state of US trade and war conditions. Rome’s fall, was precipitated by a number of things, including its costly war in Parthia (present day Iran/Iraq). This territory was necessary to Rome because it held the “Silk Road”; the path to China. Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Dale Meyerrose to Speak at IPV6 Conference
  Date: 01/25/2007
  Maj. Gen. (Retired) Dale Meyerrose, CIO for the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is keynoting the 2nd Annual The New New Internet: IPv6 conference on May 10, 2007.
  
  ExecutiveBiz and SI International have teamed up to deliver this year’s one day conference focused on “Success in Building and Securing an IPv6-enabled network”. Also supporting their efforts are the North American IPv6 Task Force (NAv6TF) and the IPv6 Forum. Our dynamic line-up of speakers including Jim Bound of the NAv6TF and representatives from Government and industry, will provide a practical look at challenges and opportunities involved in implementing IPv6. Each speaker and panel will deliver experiential advice for successfully building and securing a robust IPv6 network infrastructure. In addition, there will be a technology showcase for the vendor community to interact with industry and government attendees.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• Joe Kampf; a "paranoid optimist?"
  Date: 01/18/2007
  Well known Executive Joe Kampf, best known for selling his company Anteon to General Dynamics for $2.2 billion, appeared before a members-only ExecutiveBiz crowd and gave his perspective on how to build, grow and sell your company. See Kim Hart's coverage 'After Technology Success, Kampf Looks to Help Others Grow' in today's Washington Post. Among the many highlights was his quote from Bill Gates who claimed of himself “I am a paranoid optimist”. Like the plate spinner on stage and Bill Gates, success is due in part to believing you can be successful but never forgetting about the consequences.
  
  Our next event in this series featured Jim Ballard, president of Perot Systems on March 21st. This event series is for ExecutiveBiz members only. Click here for membership information or, ExecutiveBiz members, click here to register.Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• China and India: The Reality Beyond the Hype
  Date: 01/11/2007
  It was announced this week that U.S. Department of Transportation awarded United Airlines with the highly coveted nonstop air route between Washington, DC and Beijing, China. Linking our two booming economies is a gleaming example of the tremendous economic opportunities available in the “Flat World”.
  
  The two fastest growing economies in the world are China and India, and the “Explosive growth” in trade between the Asian giants will continue in 2007, projected to account for almost one fifth of the world’s GDP in as few as 15 years. What are the risks and opportunities in doing business in each country? How will your company be affected as the global economy evolves?Read Full Digital Magazine ...
  
  
• DC Area Execs Make Predictions for 07
  Date: 01/04/2007
  January is our favorite time of year at ExecutiveBiz because we call on the area’s leaders to predict our fortunes for the coming year. POC members will also have the chance to get a Superbowl prediction from our areas favorite sports columnist, Michael Wilbon on January 23rd. Register here.
  
  If you’re looking for a more global prediction, plan to attend “Surviving & Thriving in the Flat World” on February 28th led my well known internationalist and Dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, Howard Frank. Be sure to attend this informative discussion around the global market place with special emphasis on China, India and You.Read Full Digital Magazine ...