NYC Transit offers email alerts for elevator and escalator status
MTA New York City Transit launched an email notification system to let customers subscribe to updates on the status of station elevators and escalators. Original post
MBTA considers ads on Charlie Cards
Facing a $161 million budget gap, the MBTA wants to sell advertising on its smart cards and is seeking bids from interested parties. Original post
The Future of Academic Research
Yesterday, Nature – one of the worlds premier scientific journals recognized University of British Columbia scientist Rosie Redfield as one of the top 10 science newsmakers of 2011. The reason? After posting a scathing attack on her blog about a paper that appeared in the journal Science, Redfield decided to attempt to recreate the experimentRead… Read more »
in it for the long haul: Kelvin’s story
“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days; nor in the life of this Administration; nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.” President John F. Kennedy spoke these words at his inauguration more thanRead… Read more »
Collaborative Democracy: Transition from Money-Driven to Knowledge-Based Society
Dimitar Tchurovsky is the author of the 2011 book “Collaborative Democracy: Transition from Money-Driven to Knowledge-Based Society.” Currently living in London, Bulgarian-born Tchurovskyhas offered to send his book in PDF format “free of charge to NCDD members in return of direct feedback, critique, or any questions may have but remained unanswered.” Tchurovsky has a DegreeRead… Read more »
Social Media for Emergency Managers Can’t Start When the Emergency Does
There was a nice post about the use of social media by emergency managers last month on the Next Gov site. One part that caught my eye was the following, and I think all of us who work with social media can relate: “One of the biggest barriers to leveraging Twitter during disasters, for instance,Read… Read more »
DemocracyU
Check out the new DemocracyU website at www.civicyouth.org/democracyu/, the internet home to the American Commonwealth Partnership. The website highlights the inspiring work that engaged students are achieving at universities, colleges and communities across the country. The site will include students’ personal stories of off-campus activities as well as discussion and debate on the evolving roleRead… Read more »
Expertnet Prototyping Using Quora: Participation Metrics at Week Two
Early on during the Expertnet consultation last year, I shared the following (sadly, the Expertnet wiki is locked due to its paid subscription having expired, but Google still has most of it cached): re: Notifying Experts tbonnema Dec 18, 2010 12:43 am It looks like ExpertNet is trying to solve at least two distinct problems:Read… Read more »
Making Digital Training “An Affair to Remember”
In an article I wrote called How to Make Training “An Affair to Remember I didn’t talk a lot about different training methods; I was concerned mostly with the trainer’s responsibilities in making classroom instruction most effective. For a long time I highlighted this point on my website. Even though some time has passed, IRead… Read more »
How to capitalize on IDIQs
It seems that the tides have turned in the Government contracting world firmly in the direction of IDIQs and GSA/VA schedules. If you are the Government, it is hard to imagine why it would not be the case. Instead of a lengthy 12-18 months procurement process, the Government can award a contract in two toRead… Read more »