Yearly Archives: 2013

Death of the filesystem

From Jan Senderek, the founder of Loom, a photo management startup: Kids today who start out with iPads and iPhones will never or rarely be in touch with a file or a folder. They won’t care about the type of data created or consumed on their devices. Apps are used to generate and consume contentRead… Read more »

So what was all the WWDC fuss about?

By Ryan Kamauff Apple held their annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference this week. Most of the internet is abuzz, everyone with an opinion of their own. They released details on new versions of OS X (now called Mavericks) and iOS 7. As well, the released new versions of their MacBook Airs, they released details on aRead… Read more »

Twenty, Two, and One

We are experiencing a time of change – big change, fast change – in business, employment, markets, government. No new news here. The nature of a job has changed as well…what do you do each day now? How about this for a model: 20 sits (meetings) per month – to learn, share, sell, or get;Read… Read more »

Air Force saves more than a BILLION dollars on energy – Find out how they did it

The Air Force is the single largest consumer of energy in the federal government. Last year alone the Air Force spent more than $9 billion on fuel and electricity. The energy bill constitutes more than 8 percent of the Air Force budget. But it could of been much higher. Dr. Kevin Geiss is the DeputyRead… Read more »

Knope of the Week: Center for Priority Based Budgeting, Chris and Erik Fabian, Jon Johnson, and Don Hudson

What is the Knope of the Week? It’s ELGL’s way of recognizing an individual or group of individuals who have excelled in promoting the public sector. Recipients may come from the public or private sector and are nominated by ELGL members. Recipients receive an incredible amount of recognition and prizes that we are not atRead… Read more »

DoD’s New Air Sea Battle Concept: An overview

By ChrisScott The recently released summary of the Air-Sea Battle: Service Collaboration to Address Anti-Access and Area Denial Challenges provides interesting reading on how DoD is preparing to meet evolving threats. It’s a direct challenge to DoD components to work together and collaborate – more than they ever have before. DoD has traditionally been aRead… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: June 14, 2013

Gadi Ben-Yehuda This week: Nationals. On Her Majesty’s [Digital] Service. The BBC takes readers “Inside the UK Government Digital Service“ Crowdsourcing Canada. There’s still time to join a meetup to help “connect and build the open data community in Canada.” Excel-lent Aussies. The Financial Review reports that the Australian Treasury “will release budget papers inRead… Read more »

A Noteworthy Example of Authenticity

Originally published to cpsrenewal.ca Last week I leaned heavily on a speech made by Allan Gregg to try to position authenticity as the antidote to the problem of facelessness (see: The Solution to Facelessness is Authenticity); a problem that I argued the week before that was not some abstract thing out there but rather oneRead… Read more »

My PTLLS micro teach lesson plan and materials

I’ve almost completed a course on Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector, or PTLLS. It’s partly to help me improve the work I do in training and running workshops, but also as the first step in the journey to becoming a qualified teacher. I’m increasingly interested in the way that learning and educationRead… Read more »