Humans organize to get big things done. And for years leaders and thinkers have tried to optimize organizations. You have no doubt studied this yourself. Do you remember reading books like “The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong” or perhaps the true genius of Scott Adams in works like “This Is the Part WhereRead… Read more »
The Center for Future Civic Media is “developing the emerging ‘Fifth Estate’ of participatory news, media, and civic change. Civic media is any form of communication that strengthens the social bonds within a community or creates a strong sense of civic engagement among its residents. Civic media goes beyond news gathering and reporting. Learn moreRead… Read more »
As part of Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra’s 25 point plan to improve the management of Federal IT resources, a vital component in need of attention is the poor state of communications between government and industry. Although this fact was highlighted in Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFFP) Administrator Dan Gordon’s Mythbusters memoRead… Read more »
I have started listening occasionally to Garrison Keillor’s daily Writer’s Almanac on NPR on my commute into work in the morning. These segments are also available (in text or podcast) at this link. I find his brief, 5 minute notes on historically significant figures (tied to that day’s date) and poetry readings to be compelling.Read… Read more »
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Professor Ian Young, Vice Chancellor of the Austrlaian National Unviersity (ANU) has been consulting staff on what should be in a new strategic plan. The current plan “ANU by 2010”, mentions “flexible modes of learning”. This has been implemented through initiatives such as the ANU’s Wattle Learning Management System and the Digital Lecture Delivery System.Read… Read more »
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has issued a “Information Publication Scheme Draft Agency Plan” for comment by 28 March 2011. The document describes how the OAIC proposes to provide details of its own information. The document discusses information architecture, what information is to be published including that required by the FOI Act, accessibility,Read… Read more »
I am among the retired/aged members of this website and by now quite hard-of-hearing (hoh). I also write and still into posting online memoirs, vignettes, blogs, short stories and assorted pieces of non-fiction. About a dozen or so years ago I invited via the growing Internet other hohers (whatever their ages, self-identification discouraged) to tellRead… Read more »
The note for the course “Electronic Document and Records Management” are available. This was first run as COMP7420 an online course the Australian National University, in the Graduate Studies Select Program in February 2011. My intention is to revise the material and expand it from a six to a twelve week full semester course concentratingRead… Read more »
Traction. It gets talked about a lot at the moment. I feel like my wheels are spinning. But while wheels are spinning, experiences are being absorbed, other peoples words are being listened to and I am reading and thinking and dreaming. I think dreaming is important. I suspect to some it might look like IRead… Read more »