Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – In case you’ve missed most of the current election season so far, you may not have noticed that Twitter — which is more mainstream than it has ever been — is working with business partners, political candidates, and news organizations to innovate how the average voter engages during their caucuses,Read… Read more »
For the last couple of months I’ve been playing around with a Lenovo Ideapad S205. It’s a slightly bigger than a netbook machine that runs Windows 7. I’ve been a pretty dedicated Mac user for the last five years or so, but have been tempted to switch back to Windows for a couple of reasons.Read… Read more »
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation was created by Congress to help transform the Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP programs to deliver better healthcare, better health and reduced costs through improvement. The Center has created an interesting Innovation Advisors Program with the goal of creating a network of experts in improving the delivery system forRead… Read more »
Http://leonardSipes.Com I recently wrote Newspapers and the internet; the lessons we share. The first article was based on The Story So Far, What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism from the Columbia Journalism School which may be the most insightful social media document of all time. The essence is the media’s attempt toRead… Read more »
From TPRC: “The 40th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy Friday September 21 to Sunday September 23, 2012. Hosted by George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, VA TPRC is an annual conference on communication, information and internet policy that convenes international and interdisciplinary researchers and policymakers from academia, industry, government, and nonprofitRead… Read more »
With customers and relationships the question is: what had you done for me lately? Good customers are approached often by other providers or discover interesting offerings on the internet. Good relationships are fouled by lack of attention. Thus the spoken or implied questions about what’s recent. I heard a story about an individual who hiredRead… Read more »
Apps development is becoming an economic force. According to a new study published by TechNet, an industry group, mobile app development is creating jobs. The study found that there were about 466,000 jobs in the “App Economy” in the United States, up from zero in 2007. Top U.S. Metro Areas With Highest Percentage of AppRead… Read more »
This just in via the IAP2 Canada newsletter: IAP2 North America Conference 2012 – Call for Proposals Welcome to the 2012 North American IAP2 Conference! We are extremely excited to be working with our partner organization IAP2 USA to bring you this event and hope you can join us September 30 – October 2, 2012Read… Read more »
Yesterday in Washington, President Obama hosted the second annual White House Science Fair. Video of his comments is embedded below, along with a storify of exhibits and students from the day. “The young people I met today, the young people behind me — you guys inspire me. It’s young people like you that make meRead… Read more »
Deltek Senior Analyst Kyle Ridley reports. Tom DiScipio, founder of the educational social media tool, ePals, gave an in-depth presentation on the ups and downs of social networking tools vs. Web 2.0 education platforms at the 32 Annual Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) held in late January. He launched the session with hard-hitting statistics onRead… Read more »