Vice President Biden recently toured the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO. While there, he not only toured the facility, but spoke on the administration’s commitment to, and belief in, renewable energy technology as a vital part of America’s future economic competitiveness. One of the more forceful quotes from his speech, posted above, touchedRead… Read more »
I recently served on a grand jury, which is definitely some experiential learning. It allows one to discover many facets of the community that may not be encountered so regularly in the course of everyday life. The way a grand jury works is that you hear many, many case summaries, each of which takes anywhereRead… Read more »
Three Takeaways 1. Although Washington, DC ranks last in the SBE Council’s index, the rankings do not correlate with entrepreneurial and small business growth. Compare Washington, DC (# 51) with California (#45) and South Dakota (#1). 2. According to the rankings, Virginia (#14) is far more favorable to entrepreneurs and small businesses than Maryland (31)Read… Read more »
GSA’s Section 508 program recently created a guidance document, Guidance on Conducting Market Research. Buyers in federal agencies are required by law and regulation to conduct market research. Market research is a means of ensuring that what we want to purchase is in fact actually available. For ensuring accessibility and compliance with Section 508 whenRead… Read more »
Image via Wikipedia During the recent security conference Hack In The Box, security researchers from Qualys Labs showcased the fruits of their efforts to scan the Internet’s websites for proper implementation of security features like SSL and its successor TLS. What they found could only be described as dismal. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer,Read… Read more »
This week’s episode of The Project Management Podcast: In this premium episode of The PM Podcast we you get to hear more of Wayne Turmel’s wisdom on improving your presentations. But not just any kind of presentations… Remember that Wayne is the president of www.greatwebmeetings.com, which means, that the one thing he knows more aboutRead… Read more »
This week at the Mesh conference in Toronto (where I’ll be talking Open Data) the always thoughtful Jesse Brown, of TVO’s Search Engine will be running a session title How to Unsuck Canada’s Internet. As part of the lead up to the session he asked me if I could write him a sentence or twoRead… Read more »
IBM The Center for Business in Government has just published my first research report on “Using Wikis in Government: A Guide for Public Managers” in their Using Technology section. You can download a pdf version of the report here. Here is a short description of the report from the IBM website: Public leaders face theRead… Read more »
Cities around the world are taking a fresh look at monorails, hoping that the single-track elevated systems can provide urban mobility solutions at the right price. The Wall Street Journal writes that an 18-station line has been operating in Chongqing (China) for six years, and new systems are under construction in Mumbai (India), Riyadh (SaudiRead… Read more »
OneBusAway has been telling Seattle-area residents when their bus was arriving since 2006. Developed by University of Washington graduate student Brian Ferris, the application allowed customers use any kind of cell phone to dial, punch in the stop number, and receive an arrival prediction. Smartphone apps followed, and today OneBusAway logs 27,000 unique weekly visitorsRead… Read more »