Project Management

Foreclosure: Recovery

FORECLOSURE GOD’S STYLE Do you know this lady? Oh, of course you do! She’s that kind little lady who lives next door, she’s the one who bakes cookies for the children in the neighborhood at Christmas or just whenever. She’s a grandmother and loving wife but her husband is gone now so she lives allRead… Read more »

GCPedia 2.0 – CMS Showcase

One of the headline sections of our Open Government Canada webinar will be the CMS Showcase. These will introduce the core building block of an Open Gov program, the Web CMS (Content Management System). For example Drupal, Joomla, Plone, RedDot, and many others. We’ll be covering these apps, their cool features and what’s the relevanceRead… Read more »

Memorial Day – Before and After Through A Widow’s Eyes

Tweet or like this article and ClearedJobs.Net will donate $1 toward the Transition Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) and Knights of Heroes, up to $250. Memorial Day was always a favorite holiday for me. I remember as a young kid riding through Lakeside Cemetery and going to each and every parade yet never fully understandingRead… Read more »

Memorial Day 2011

USA.gov provides a wealth of resources regarding Memorial Day on their Memorial Day page. You’ll find information about the history and origins of the day, monuments and memorials, veteran’s stories, and tips for supporting the troops. You’ll also find practical information about observing the holiday with boating and swimming safety, travel tips, and more. IRead… Read more »

GCPedia 2.0 – CMS Showcase

One of the headline sections of our Open Government Canada webinar will be the CMS Showcase. These will introduce the core building block of an Open Gov program, the Web CMS (Content Management System). For example Drupal, Joomla, Plone, RedDot, and many others. We’ll be covering these apps, their cool features and what’s the relevanceRead… Read more »

TransLink may cancel U-Pass

After losing up to $15 million a year from missing, stolen, and resold U-Passes, TransLink (BC) is threatening to cancel the student pass program. This year the agency provided about 80,000 U-Passes to students at six Vancouver-area colleges and universities at a discounted rate of $30 per month; the non-transferable passes are good for travelRead… Read more »

Mayer on The Free Law Reporter: Open Access to the Law and Beyond

John Mayer of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) has posted The Free Law Reporter – Open Access to the Law and Beyond, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Mr. Mayer describes The Free Law Reporter, CALI’s new free and open databaseRead… Read more »

Share the Power!

The first ever SharePoint Conference for State Department staff was held Monday, May 16, and featured SharePoint evangelist Dux Raymond Sy as keynote speaker. The Conference theme, “Share the Power,” appropriately characterized all aspects of the event. The organizing tasks were shared by staff from the Bureau of Information Resource Management (the techies), Foreign ServiceRead… Read more »

A Good Day’s (Two Years’) Work at the DOE

$30 billion in financing for 28 projects that create or save 61,000 jobs. Those are the three most striking numbers reported by the Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office recently. Of course, the numbers only tell one type of story. The ‘meat’ of this program is in what these projects will leave behind: the greenRead… Read more »