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Weekly Round-up June 06, 2011
Gadi Ben-Yehuda More than a Twitter Account: Just what qualifies a person to lead a social media proegram or team for the government? Jeff Levy has been asking GovLoopers about the skills and experiences that make a good candidate. (Of course, this class might not hurt!) Wikipeida Experience Seems to Help. The National Archives hasRead… Read more »
Why You Suck At Networking
OK, sorry about that subject line. I don’t really know if you suck at networking or not. But we can all get better at it, and I’d wager that 90% of us really do ‘suck’ at it. But I know some people do, because I get email on a regular basis asking me to doRead… Read more »
UK rail data to be available for national hack day
Developers participating in London’s national Hack Day competition will have access to live departure data from National Rail Enquiries (UK). “Since we began licensing apps a few years ago, we’ve dealt with numerous individual developers who have gone on to produce highly successful programs that are used more than a hundred thousand times a day,”Read… Read more »
Free PMP Exam Sample Question
The following PMP® exam sample question is taken from The Free PMP Exam Simulator at http://free.pm-exam-simulator.com – The answer is at the very bottom: —————————— Which of the following may be considered as the outputs of performing Quality Assurance? A) Requested changes, recommended corrective actions, organizational process assets, project management plan. B) Requested changes, requestedRead… Read more »
Denver fare enforcement goes digital
Denver’s Regional Transportation District (CO) has given its police force new tools to catch fare cheats. With electronic ID-inspection devices and wireless printers, transit police can scan a driver’s license to check the passenger’s fare-compliance record. ”Until May, all officers had to use the radio to call in a name check,” said transit police chiefRead… Read more »
European solar tunnel to power high-speed trains
Solar panels covering a 2.2-mile Belgian tunnel will generate enough electricity to power 4,000 high-speed trains traveling between Paris and Amsterdam each year. The tunnel was built to protect trains from falling trees in a forest near Antwerp. “For train operators, it is the perfect way to cut their carbon footprints because you can useRead… Read more »
Thoughts at the Confluence of Game Theory and Inciting Action
I’ve stated before that the Open Yale Game Theory course is a must watch for anyone interested in thinking more strategically about their work, more specifically I think it can help people working in change management or otherwise trying to incite people to action. Key Concepts: backwards induction, best response and Nash equilibrium One ofRead… Read more »
By the City/For the City Application
Screenshot of the By the City/For the City web application. The Institute for Urban Design in New York has a really nice application for people to suggest ideas for improving the city. The Digital Placemaking App was developed by the Project for Public Spaces (PPS), a great planning organization. The application is called: By theRead… Read more »
iCloud for Government : Why, and how, Cloud Computing is so important for Canada
The purpose of our Canada Cloud Network, the market need it is setting out to address, is that Canada is suffering from an “Innovation Crisis”. Scoring a ‘D for Innovation‘, ranking 14th out of 17 countries on an innovation scale, the country is slipping downwards on a number of measurement frameworks like this, such asRead… Read more »