Recruitment 411: Valuable Veterans

This week’s guest blogger is Ernie Beltz Jr. He is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, and has managed the veteran recruitment program for the Department of the Treasury and IRS for a year and a half. Below, he offers some suggestions to consider – or consider sharing – when your organization is looking to fillRead… Read more »

How the War on Drugs Destabilized the Global Economy

This is truly, truly fantastic. If you haven’t already read this stunning story from the Guardian: How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs. This is, in essence a chronicle how the dark and sordid side of banking and about how one US bank – Wachovia – essentially allowed Mexican drugRead… Read more »

PM Podcast Episode 184: How to Develop Your Leadership Skills (Project Leadership Series)

This week’s episode of the Project Management Podcast: In today’s episode we continue our PM Podcast project leadership series. I have invited Andy Kaufmann, PMP from The Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development (www.i-leadonline.com and www.peopleandprojectspodcast.com) to discuss how each and everyone of you could go about to develop your project management leadership skills. InRead… Read more »

Social is a pain in the a**e

My previous post about closing the social media gap raised some interesting discussion on twitter around how we start to approach the issue of narrowing the gap between those who are active in social media and those that are not, for various reasons – getting access to such websites is still a major block, butRead… Read more »

New York invests in wind, hydro, landfill power

Tweet New York is investing nearly $191 million in wind, hydroelectric and landfill-to-gas projects to provide renewable energy access throughout the state. The funds will be awarded through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the Public Service Commission (PSC) and will cover 17 projects. NYSERDA estimates that these power projectsRead… Read more »

Taiwan extends EasyCard to high-speed rail

Customers will soon be able to use their co-branded EasyCards on Taiwan High Speed Rail. The cards are already accepted on the Taipei Metro, Taiwan Railway and buses in Greater Taipei City and Taipei County. “The touch-and-go service will save passengers at least 20 minutes of waiting and ticket processing time,” said high-speed rail chairmanRead… Read more »

From subways to potholes: Using cell phone data to track services

Despite customer concerns about sharing their location with cell phone providers, several organizations are using crowdsourced geolocation data to track public services. In New York, web development company Densebrain is analyzing cell phone data to track Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway services. According to The New York Times, the project looks for disruptions in cell phoneRead… Read more »

Keep (more than) your pants on

My previous post, giving a bit of advice for people wanting to be active online and yet stay out of trouble at work, missed one vital point: Don’t post pictures of your groin on the internet – especially if you’ve only got your pants on. Original post

Kind of Digital webchats

We’re going to start running occasional live webchats on the subject of online innovation on the Kind of Digital website. They’ll be simple affairs using the CoverItLive system and a bit of Twitter, and all the action will take place on our webchat page. Obviously, it’s all free. The first webchat will be next Tuesday,Read… Read more »