Massachusetts is awarding $350,000 to accelerate the planning process for 26 potential new Innovation Schools across the Commonwealth. Local superintendents, school committee members and union leaders, have already approved the initial plans for these schools and the grants will be used to develop innovation plans to be presented to local school committees for final approval.Read… Read more »
Massachusetts is awarding $350,000 to accelerate the planning process for 26 potential new Innovation Schools across the Commonwealth. Local superintendents, school committee members and union leaders, have already approved the initial plans for these schools and the grants will be used to develop innovation plans to be presented to local school committees for final approval.Read… Read more »
In my previous post, I mentioned Baja Fresh had found a simple and compelling way to promote an offer for a reusable plastic drink cup. Before I tell you what it is, let me give you two versions of the same message. I’m going to ask you to pick the one you think Baja FreshRead… Read more »
The Productivity Commission has released a draft Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation: Planning, Zoning, with comments due by 31 March 2011: Preliminaries (PDF – 418 Kb) Cover, Copyright, Opportunity for further comment, Terms of reference, Contents and Abbreviations and explanationsOverview – including key points (PDF – 317 Kb)Chapter 1 About the study (PDF –Read… Read more »
The third talk I attended at the ACS Canberra Conference was by Colin Towns discussed his experience with installing Objective 7.5 at Department of Defence. One of the achievements at Defence was just to find the needed metadata and get it loaded into the system. He mentioned the P.O.P.I.T. strategy. The Institute for Information ManagementRead… Read more »
In Educating for Deliberative Democracy, contributing authors and editor Nancy L. Thomas explore the critical role that higher education can play alongside expanding coalitions of civic organizations, public officials, and everyday citizens in strengthening democracy. At the heart of these efforts is a conviction that persistent public problems call for dialogue and deliberation that resultRead… Read more »
The third talk I attended at the ACS Canberra Conference was by Colin Towns discussed his experience with installing Objective 7.5 at Department of Defence. One of the achievements at Defence was just to find the needed metadata and get it loaded into the system. He mentioned the P.O.P.I.T. strategy. The Institute for Information ManagementRead… Read more »
I’ve been so busy over the last few weeks. One of my project teams is going through a formal testing cycle, and I completely spaced letting you know about a new resource available for you if you are planning on going after the PMP exam. I was on the phone with Cornelius Fichtner, host ofRead… Read more »
Greetings from the Australian Computer Society Canberra Branch conference at the Canberra Hyatt. Brice Lakin, ACS CEO, presented the “ACS Political Manifesto” which included having an ICT cabinet portfolio, the use of broadband for boosting the economy, promotion of skills with work integrated learning. In answer to a question Bruce pointed that ACS hosts theRead… Read more »
Next at the Australian Computer Society Canberra Branch conference I attended Christine Johnston’s presentation on how the National Archives of Australia helps keep the nation’s records in electronic format. This involves advising agencies on how to keep e-records and decide which should be transferred to the archive for preservation and for how long.The process whichRead… Read more »