Heads of the Five Families
Imagine gathering the technology directors of your local city offices, hospital, local college, larger business owners, and the county together with your school technology directors. What would be your conversation topics?
I can tell you that meeting the other tech directors of our city was really great today. I call it the “Meeting of the Minds” and the “Heads of the Five Families”. There are technology directors in our city hall, hospital, college, and larger business association along with our education system who can really share ideas and resources.
We discussed similar issues with our networks and software use. We also discussed access to videoconferencing, wireless networks, and the future of cloud/Web 2.0 resources. A really hot topic for us was disaster recovery. I wonder if off-site data recovery could be held at one of these other places to mirror our servers?
I offered an invitation for them to join me at the TECHForum Southwest event in November in Austin and I may have some who want to join us there in that conversation. I gave one of them my TCEA brochure for the conference in February.
But even better, we all agreed to meet together again very soon.
Can I make a suggestion to other technology directors? Make friends with your local counterparts as well. What a great way to network and share resources. Imagine what you can all do together: http://digitalelpaso.com
