Yannick Assogba, Irene Ros, and Matt McKeon, all of the IBM Research Visual Communication Lab, presented DocBlocks: Communication-Minded Visualization of Topics in U.S. Congressional Bills, at CHI 2010: The 28th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held 10-15 April 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Here is the abstract: US Federal legislation is aRead… Read more »
It’s looking more and more promising that Congress will pass the Plain Writing Act (S574), the law that so many have championed for so long. The Act passed the House in March by a vote of 386 to 33; and it’s being considered in the Senate now. If it is enacted, get ready, web communicators.Read… Read more »
I’ve been kinda slack in posting updates to my blog, but thought I’d share this news item from the Charlotte (NC) Observer. (This is not meant as a slight to my City of Charlotte counterparts.) http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/05/09/1424741/not-very-social-is-it.html My guess is City Council and County Commission members may now get engaged in a discussion on the differingRead… Read more »
“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom.”– Colonel Jessup in the movie A Few Good Men Organizations that choose to deploy collaborative solutions, rangingRead… Read more »
Full body scans at airports are an intrusion of privacy. We already knew that, of course, but news last week of a Miami TSA worker arrested after beating up co-worker for making fun of his penis size serves as yet another reminder. The story goes something like this: The dimensions of TSA worker Rolando Negrin’sRead… Read more »
Research ReportsNew PEW Report – Fate of the Semantic Web (5/4/2010) Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center pulled together 895 experts to predict the likelihood that Berners-Lee and his allies will realize their vision of Web 3.0 by 2020.http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Semantic-Web.aspx Understanding participation: A literature review – (01/13/2010) Summary ofRead… Read more »
[Originally published here on cpsrenewal.ca] Last week I volunteered in my daughter’s junior kindergarten class. Afterward I realized that building online communities is not all that different than building trust with a large group of children. In the column below I will speak directly about my experience in the classroom; while in many cases theRead… Read more »
Below is an interview conducted with Mike Lambert, who is active in improving knowledge management and training systems for the defense acquisition workforce. In particular, I advise you find Mike on GovLoop. How did you get to where you are in your life? I’ve taken an interesting tour of a variety of career fields overRead… Read more »
I’ve been watching with interest as social media blogger extraordinaire Chris Brogan adapts his person brand from “social media guy,” to “human business guy.” Chris has been writing about effective news media strategy since long before it was a cottage industry, and many of his tips and probing questions center around the human component ofRead… Read more »
So I spoke at the New Jersey statehouse on GovLoop last week. Here are some notes from the other sessions: -Watched video of Socialnomics -Listening first, selling second -Iran presidential elections -State Department sent social media experts to Russia for diplomatic piece -Mexico- use Twitter to talk about locations where violence has occurred -PR andRead… Read more »