NOTICE: FYI The source for these verbatim excerpts is ‘The Weekly Spark of September 2, 2011.’ The SPRC source often includes a note to pass their postings along to others where the content might be useful.This posting complies accordingly. Active links are located at: http://www.sprc.org/news/index.asp “Champions of Change: Suicide Prevention Resource Center builds national capacity.Read… Read more »
Redesign of CTOlabs.com
CTOlabs.com, a site we produce in service to enterprise CTOs seeking ideas, concepts and evaluations, has just undergone a major makeover focused on making content easier to discover. The layout is now presented in a newspaper format with large headlines, lots of images, and automated suggestions of content related to what you are looking at.Read… Read more »
Prepare for government web emergency
GovGirl chats with special guest Corey Dalton on how to prepare for an emergency that could bring down a government website. This episode includes advice for government webmasters on hosting, servers, mirrored sites, and the cloud. Get your own valid XHTML YouTube embed code Original post
A Labor Day Message from AFGE President John Gage
Filed under: AFGE Press Releases, AFL-CIO blogs, Community, DC Government Tagged: AFGE, AFLCIO, Federal Employees, taxi drivers, workers Original post
A sinking feeling
I’m watching the wikileaks Twitter account with great interest right now. As I type this, there is a steady stream of accusations aimed at the Guardian newspaper streaming up my screen. One of the things which has been linked to is this. It is Arus Bridger confirming the terms of receipt of ‘package 3’, agreeingRead… Read more »
pmStudent.com Reaches Half a Million Visitors
I’m making a weekend post today to thank all of you for engaging with me and reflect on my little project here at pmStudent.com, so please forgive my divergence from the normal topics. In The Beginning It was just me and my blog. I wrote for the fun of it, and wrote for myself. ItRead… Read more »
Education, Inc: A Conversation with the Texas Observer’s Abby Rapoport at Monkeywrench Books
Sep 13, 2011 at 7:00 pm MonkeyWrench Books 110 E. North Loop Austin, TX 512-407-6925 Please join MonkeyWrench Books and the Texas Observer for this conversation with Abby Rapoport. As the “education reform” movement has come to dominate policy, more and more education dollars find their way into mega-corporations. Testing contracts alone are worth hundredsRead… Read more »
Is That All You Got?
How many times have you walked out of a situation and said ” I did not get ANY of the things that I wanted!” If this has happened, you walked in without knowing your BATNA. BATNA stands for Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement. It’s your backup plan; your plan B. Quite simply, when youRead… Read more »
“How to Manage Social Media” Presentations
My thanks to Joel Sarfati, Director of 40 Plus of Greater Washington D.C. and Professor Ray Kimball of Montgomery College’s TechLeap Program for inviting me to give presentations on “How to Manage Social Media for Busy Professionals” last week. Both events had great audiences, and I appreciated the vigorous question-and-answer sessions. Two slide decks shareRead… Read more »
Game over
Some evenings on my way home from work, I play a small private game of chicken. Now I have played it for the last time. If there are too many people at the bus stop – and no, I don’t know how many makes too many – that’s a sign that the gap between busesRead… Read more »