All Blog Posts Tagged 'information' (87)

By Xin Wen

Recently I moved to Vienna, VA and the commute to ASTD suddenly became a time-consuming matter for me. However after a couple of days I found spending two hours per day on the metro is not totally a bad thing—I can read on the road. In fact, metro is now my productivity place—I finished a 400-page novel in one week. All…

I came across an article today that I thought brought up an obvious (but much needed) point. The article says that CIO of Michigan gave a presentation and “[stated] that Online tools and social media are now the norm.”

This is an important point that government…

With various governments limiting the amount of outsourcing programs, Mark Kobayashi-Hillary predicts that the Indian, Brazilian and Chinese IT industries will become the best in the world...



By: Mark Kobayashi-Hillar

Who can remember that distant hazy past where Barack Obama was campaigning to become president of the USA and he talked of creating more American jobs? The emphasis was always on American jobs, rather than American…

Hey GovLoop fans,

I hope you share my excitement when holding the summer issue of The Public Manager. It’s being distributed to subscribers right now. If you can’t wait, if you urgently need help with information overload, managing in a fishbowl, or attending to the big challenge of 21^st Century government reorganization being considered by President Obama, go online at our site,…

UPDATE: For those who weren't able to attend Paul Culmsee's seminar, you can check out video and slides here.

He starts with a great comparison of Government 2.0 in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand and even riffs off a 2010 GovLoop discussion by Bill Brantley and Andrew…

AIIM, the Association for Information and Image Management has gathered leaders from 18 Social Business and Content Management companies to serve on the second major taskforce project in the social content definition process, this one headed by Professor Andrew McAfee, known as the grandfather of E2.0. “I am excited to partner with AIIM on this effort,” says Dr. McAfee. “The technologies, practices, and philosophies of…

New Reports

New Report: Information Needs of Communities (by the FCC)

• “The FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities today…

“The FCC Working Group on the Information Needs of Communities today delivered an in-depth analysis of the current state of the media landscape along with a broad range of recommendations. The staff-level report, titled “Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age” […

“Freedom of Information Summit brings journalists, open-records advocates together”

• The event was held in New Hampshire (in part) by the National Freedom of Information Coalition.

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The ROI for Government…

"White House unveils tax calculator designed to give taxpayers a receipt”…

How far will an organization go to protect its most sensitive information? Plaintiffs’ attorneys suing Toyota Motor Corp. over sudden unintended acceleration in several Toyota and Lexus models are finding out. Although the U.S. government recently ruled out software glitches as the cause of multiple acceleration-related accidents, the attorneys want to hire 10 outside engineers to review the software source code anyway – and they want access to well more than the 280,000 lines of Toyota…

Click on this shortner (http://qwi.ki/fkBPZ5) to watch the Qwiki - "Easy Rider"…

There is a lot of emotion around the entire Wikileaks issue at the moment. So before continuing I want to make it clear that none of what I have written here is a swipe at our American colleagues. Rather, my view is that all of us - public servants and citizens need to face up to to the many issues and questions the entire situation raises for us. Just like in the United States here in Australia their is a fair bit of emotion in relation to Julian Assange and…

Paper is a costly crutch and one that may be handicapping your office more than helping. Paper Free Day asks you to commit one day to:…

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