Municipal wifi is moving ahead in Houston. Yesterday, the city announced that it has chosen Alvarion to deploy a citywide 4G municipal network. The network will increase the city’s ability to provide more municipal services online, improve public safety support and better traffic management. According to the city’s municipal wifi plan, the new network willRead… Read more »
Municipal wifi is moving ahead in Houston. Yesterday, the city announced that it has chosen Alvarion to deploy a citywide 4G municipal network. The network will increase the city’s ability to provide more municipal services online, improve public safety support and better traffic management. According to the city’s municipal wifi plan, the new network willRead… Read more »
Sean McGrath of Proplyon — and a member of our community — has posted Legislative Workbench (LWB) Technical White Paper, Version 1.0 (2011). The paper describes the architecture of the system that powers KLISS, the Kansas Legislative Information Services System. Click here for Sean’s earlier posts about KLISS.
Sitting in a session of the 2nd Annual Learning Commons Development and Design Forum, in Brisbane, I noticed the delegate next to me reading the March 2011 edition of Architectural Record magazine on Library Design. There are about 241 articles in AR mentioning unviersity libraries. But I could find no mention of “Learning Commons” inRead… Read more »
Google founder Larry Page will reclaim his role as CEO on April 4th. Page wants to cut through the bureaucracy that has developed as Google has grown to 24,000 employees. Some steps taken by Page according to a Wall Street Journal article include: Persuading top executives to sit and work together every day in aRead… Read more »
Sally B. Richardson, Esq. presented a paper entitled E-Possession, at ALPS 2011: The Association for Law, Property, and Society Annual Meeting, held 4-5 March 2011 at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, USA. Here is the abstract: To acquire title to real property via adverse possession, the taking party must physically use the propertyRead… Read more »
Greetings from the 2nd Annual Learning Commons Development and Design Forum, Brisbane. The first speaker was Keith Webster, Librarian, University of Queensland.He started with the good old days where academic libraries were for scholars. The students were only admitted under sufferance and provided they were silent. He used the 1970s UQ biological library as anRead… Read more »
Sports Awesomeness!! Yo, Yo, Yo!!! #WOO!! So, I don’t know about you, but the Hokie Guru’s 2011 March Madness bracket dropped like the 1929 stock market (so the Guru picked a good name for his bracket haha). SMH!! Without further ado, here’s the leader board update: @HokieHuddle and @RL_Bynum are best positioned to be 1-2Read… Read more »
By Tom Bullington, Communications Manager As most communicators are well aware, it’s critical to have a sense of what your audience wants (and needs) to hear before you share it. This is especially true when you work for a government. It should be your goal to provide the public with information that matters most inRead… Read more »
Greenest City by 2020 Project: Bridging Digital and Traditional Participation in Vancouver, BC Susanna Haas Lyons / Public Engagement Specialist, Engaging.ly and Researcher, University of British Columbia and Amanda Mitchell, Greenest City Planning Analyst at the City of Vancouver Join us for an exciting and indepth exploration of how the City of Vancouver, British Columbia,Read… Read more »