Ray LaHood keeps communication lines open
“On the Go with Ray LaHood” solicited questions for the U.S. transportation secretary via social media. He posted responses to selected questions on YouTube late last week. Original post
Influence culture to drive user adoption.
This article was originally published on Tri Tuns Blog. OBSERVATION People often talk about corporate culture but they really don’t know how to sufficiently explain / define it, how to influence it, or how it can influence an IT project implementation. You may have tried to define what the culture of your client’s organization isRead… Read more »
Open Government 2.0
After we had gotten past the platitudes and niceties that all good managers trying to implement a directive spout when garnering employee buy in for the directive, we were left with the question “So, now what?” One brave soul finally raised a voice and said “None of those words mean anything unless you put actionRead… Read more »
LaHood clears the way for Florida’s high-speed rail funds to go to the Northeast
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has designated the Northeast Corridor a federally-recognized high-speed rail corridor, clearing the way for these states and Amtrack to apply for federal high-speed rail grant funding. Specifically, this recognition will allow the Northeast Corridor to apply for Florida’s recently rejected $2.4 billion in high-speed rail funding. As CivSourceRead… Read more »
Introducing Brand New LinkedIn News Services Called “LinkedIn Today”
On Thursday last week, LinkedIn launched a brand new service called “LinkedIn today.” Liz Reaves Walker on the LI blog made the announcement. She wrote, Staying on top of industry news is something we think matters for any professional whose success depends on being well informed. With all the news websites, blogs, tweets and newslettersRead… Read more »
Great Big Carbon Tax Cuts for Everyone
The Australian Prime Minister has a two-stage plan for carbon pricing, starting with a fixed price three to five years before transitioning to an emissions trading scheme (announced 24 February 2011). The federal opposition response was to call this a “… great big new tax to create a great big new slush fund …”.The governmentRead… Read more »
SLA’s Division of Government Information Has Exciting Slate of Programs and Events for SLA 2011 in Philadelphia This Summer
SLA’s Division of Government Information is sponsoring (or co-sponsoring) the following programs and events at SLA’s 2011 Annual Conference in Philadelphia this summer. This is a great slate of programs that includes three SPOTLIGHT programs and a NEED TO KNOW program, as well as an unconference session. For more detailed DGI program and event information,Read… Read more »
Great Big Carbon Tax Cuts for Everyone
The Austrlaian Prime Minister has a two-stage plan for carbon pricing, starting with a fixed price three to five years before transitioning to an emissions trading scheme (announced 24 February 2011). The federal opposition responsee was to call this a “… great big new tax to create a great big new slush fund …”. TheRead… Read more »
Stopping the Next Enron with Data Integrity
Professor Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore talked today in the famous room N101 at the Australian National University in Canberra, on “Records Retention: Addressing Insider Threats to Data Integrity”. She contrasted the run on the banks during the 1930s stock market crash with the recent stability ofRead… Read more »
Green ICT poster for EduCause 2011
My first rough draft of a poster on “International Graduate Level Sustainable ICT Course” is avilable. This for the conference CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011, in Sydney 3 to 6 April 2011. I would welcome comments. Sustainable ICT Courses are being introduced at the vocational training level and more rarely at undergraduate and graduate levels. This paperreportsRead… Read more »