Weekly Round-up: June 29, 2012

Gadi Ben-Yehuda Wil workplaces become more gray-friendly? Andrew Krzmarzick asks “What If the Workplace Had More 70-Somethings? Because It Will…” and goes on to list some of the important issues that the changing demographics of the workplace raise. Quite a few people respond. EPA’s Got (new e-) Mail. In the same week that Nora EphronRead… Read more »

How can UK Local Government achieve Digital by Default?

Two of the biggest challenges facing government IT policy is how best to tap into the potential of open data and how to make digital by default a core goal. mySocity’s director Tom Steinberg hosted a session at LGA Conference 2012 outlining how local government should respond to these two issues and enable the sectorRead… Read more »

On Empty

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ACT Government planning to release a data portal and real-time bus information in reusable formats

Brought to my attention by @maxious, the ACT government has said in response to their Estimates process that they are building a data portal which they aim to have ready in July 2012. Discussed in ACT’s Hansard, Andrew Cappie-Wood, Head of Service and Director-General for ACT, said that, “There is a lot of interest inRead… Read more »

Federally Employed Women (FEW) Mourns the Loss of Past President Jeanette S. Miller

Jeanette S. Miller served as Federally Employed Women’s seventeenth National President from 1998—2000. In 1979 she became a FEW member, joining the newly formed Oak Ridge Chapter, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She held various leadership roles on the local, regional and national levels and ultimately served as FEW National President. Additionally, she served on the planningRead… Read more »

FEW’s 43rd National Training Program

Are you planning to attend the Federally Employed Women (FEW) National Training Program July 16-20, 2012, in Detroit? It’s an awesome event! for more info, visit www.few.org! I hope to see you there! Sue Webster, National President, FEW

Chicago Mayor creates Office of Public Engagement

Interesting public engagement news out of Chicago this week. From the Chicago Sun-Times (June 23rd)… Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Saturday the creation of the Office of Public Engagement, which is designed to connect residents to city resources. Felicia Davis, the mayor’s Deputy Chief of Staff, will head the new office. The department will work withRead… Read more »

Recorded Future for Forecasting Cyber Attacks

Recorded Futureis the first temporal analytics engine enabling web intelligence, pulling open source information from the Internet and indexing it for analysis by event type and time, thereby allowing users to tap into the predictive power of the web. Recorded Future has proven capabilities to forecast unrest demonstrated in a previous webcast and used byRead… Read more »

Mean Target Marketing-Parents Beware

If you have read my blog before you know that I am a trainer and speech coach, and I have some professional acting and theatre experience. While trying to do the right thing for my talented daughter, Allie, who is dying to get into the business of being “discovered,” I found despicable marketing practices fromRead… Read more »