GMU StartUp Challenge

Tuesday November 8, George Mason University is hosting their annual StartUp Challenge. Seven Startups are scheduled to strut their stuff, so attendees will get an insight into the next crop of new technologies. I have been following Peter Corbett, going to Disruptathon and several DCTech meetings, and today’s startups are different from five years ago,Read… Read more »

Open Data Made Beautiful: Dark Sky

Today I came across probably the most beautiful use of public data I’ve ever seen: This came by way of a new app called Dark Sky that purports to predict the weather. Using your precise location, it tells you when it will precipitate and for how long; for instance, you boot it up before you’reRead… Read more »

OpenGov @NASA – FICM – Nov 10 – 2 pm EST

Please join us for the full Federal Intranet Content Managers (FICM) GoToMeeting on Nov 10 at 11 am PST. Dave Hebert will be the MC and Allison Soussi-Tanani will be our coordinator. Two of our FICM Steering Committee members will kick off the meeting with talks on “personas”. Our highlighted speaker this month is NickRead… Read more »

HP Family Better Together

 I wanted to share a post from HP’s Mark Budgell on last week’s announcement that our PC business will remain part of HP. As we have said throughout the evaluation process, we absolutely stand by our PC products and customers, and we’re excited to continue doing so together with HP. http://h20435.www2.hp.com/t5/The-Next-Bench-Blog/HP-Family-Better-Together/ba-p/74165 A couple monthsRead… Read more »

Scrum Tune-up

Guest post by Jim Kinter In my previous post I referenced a conversation with a colleague about a Scrum implementation that hasn’t produced the results he expected. His expectations from the outset seem to be primarily focused on productivity, but motivation and drivers for choosing Scrum is for another day. As I was mulling thisRead… Read more »

California releases new high-speed rail plan

California has released a new business plan for its high-speed rail project. The plan calls for creating a high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles but will cost $98.5 billion – more than twice the previous estimate. The plan will also take several more years to complete than previously estimated, work isn’t expectedRead… Read more »

Change in our Affiliate Program

On Monday, December 5 2011, we will be moving all our PMP Exam Prep Products and PDU Products from Premiumcast to Nanacast. This move is necessary, because Premiumcast is closing down soon and only by migrating over to Nanacast will we be able to continue offering our affiliate program to you. The good news isRead… Read more »