Weekly Round-up July 01, 2011

Gadi Ben-Yehuda Hang up and drive into the sunset. Business News Daily reports on a poll showing that nearly 75 percent of Americans want access to their data while they’re on vacation and nearly one out of five wants data access on their honeymoon! E unum, pluribus? Mike Rupert, a former colleague of mine fromRead… Read more »

Webinar Success: Apply “Monroe’s Motivated Sequence”

Presenting in a webinar is similar to giving a presentation in person; however, the difference is that in a webinar, the live audience is not in front of the presenter. Not having good eye contact makes it difficult to build connections with attendees or to read faces for emotions. Fortunately, with preparation and the correctRead… Read more »

States want flexibility, but need guidance when it comes to health reform and IT modernization

Deltek Principal Analyst Sherry Calvendra reports. Last week’s 2011 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit hosted a mix of government participants coming together to examine key topics related to the transformation of health technology. The conference kicked off with keynotes from Julie Boughn, acting deputy director for operations at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid InnovationRead… Read more »

Stalking the Google Street View car

New York Times reporter Corey Kilgannon happened to catch the Google Street View car in action and tried to document the encounter. “It does not come around often, but when it does, the Google Street View car is hard to miss.” he wrote. “It has also gained near-mythic status in towns and cities around theRead… Read more »

What I’ve been reading

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Can digital save our libraries? « corrinnedouglas – Some useful thoughts on an important topic Google Sites – Mobile Templates – Interesting tool for making mobile friendly site templates. Patch, the hyperlocal website from AOL, is totally off-putting – “Is it too late in theRead… Read more »

What is the most BORING city in the United States?

There’s always a lot of media attention given to communities where exciting things are happening (Las Vegas, New York, Chicago, etc.) But you don’t hear much about cities that are incredibly boring. You know, real snoozers. Where it seems like nothing happens and nothing ever changes. Maybe you live there. Maybe you’ve just driven throughRead… Read more »

Ben the Badger

The back story: In February, CfA Fellows gathered to discuss the branding of the organization, mostly just to orient ourselves to it. One of the ways I like to do this with any brand is to do a word association exercise. I like to start by writing down obvious words (government, technology, etc.) then moveRead… Read more »

A bit of structure for your unconference

Briggsy and I have been chatting to some good folk across the pond recently about running a Govcamp-style event, and how unconferences work. Some of their senior folk are nervous, understandably, about trying what seems like quite a radical approach. What if the conversation veers off course? What if the sessions go round in circles?Read… Read more »

Sanity check

So. Twitter. I posted a bit ago about how Tweetdeck had folded into a pile of uselessness. Well, now I’m discovering the irritation of outbound tweets disappearing. I tweeted a physio about getting some treatment for my back and ankles. Both are down to my being overweight and trying to do something about it (don’tRead… Read more »