I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. BDU: Big Data – E-learning about “big data” which people keep telling me is going to be important. WP2Cloud – Interesting one for WordPress dorks (like me). Stores all your WP site stuff in Amazon’s cloud. Announcing Open Space South West #OpenSSW – Sounds likeRead… Read more »
Ok, so everyone is talking about Facebook and its IPO. There are several elements about this that I find interesting, none of which involve the billions of dollars that the IPO is going to raise. 1) So many of the overnight success stories we are talking involve businesses with a model that can be describedRead… Read more »
With one expert you get your messiah. They named a street after that guy, One Way. With two experts you get a discussion, also called an argument. With three or more experts you get the beginnings of transparency. With Mr. Google and his Internet, we have more knowledge than we need. Education used to beRead… Read more »
Today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: U.S. Army Cyber Command operational attorney Robert Clark said that the legal frameworks are not keeping pace with cyber operations and said that claims of “cyber war” do not qualify as war defined by international laws of armed conflicts. More here. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management ProgramRead… Read more »
Government trainings are important. They provide valuable skills to government employees so that they can better do their jobs. However, since the GSA conference scandal, it’s been more difficult than ever for federal workers to justify conferences and trainings. Some of these controls are good, but some may be detrimental to the good work governmentRead… Read more »
For National Women’s Health Week, the U.S. General Services Administration’s Federal Citizen Information Center and U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Women’s Health partnered to create and circulate the Healthy Women’s Action Kit. This kit provides the information you need to: • Manage your cholesterol, blood pressure and risk for diabetes • Stay safeRead… Read more »
It’s hard to dispute that 2011 was the year of social media. The average number of tweets on Twitter rose from 50 million to 140 million. LinkedIn set records as the largest Internet IPO since Google. And over half of Facebook’s 845 million users logged in daily. Some headlines even claimed that “email is dead.”Read… Read more »
In Eugene, Oregon, the Co-Intelligence Institute is engineering a community-focused process to increase local capacity for healthy, creative group dialogue. By combining trainings and workshops with a series of dialogues around a substantive issue — in this case, the economy — we plan to demonstrate the generative power of group process even as we stimulateRead… Read more »
E-books are changing the nature of books. Printing on paper is expensive while pixels are cheap. This means more books for more readers at a lower cost. An example of the change in books is Kindle Singles. These are short books or long-form journalism, depending on your perspective. Ranging in length from 5,000 – 30,000Read… Read more »
In line with its mission to ensure the careful use of Federal funds, OMB issued guidance on 5/11/12 to Federal agencies that requires them to make more efficient use of existing government real estate — in effect, “freezing the Federal footprint.” In a roundabout way, this is good news for Telework fans. By requiring agenciesRead… Read more »