The book “Design for Flooding: Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design for Resilience to Climate Change” by Donald Watson and Michele Adams is a timely work. This discusses the causes of flooding and the engineering, planning, architectural and social responses which can be made. Relevant to Queensland is a discussion of the role of elevated houses,Read… Read more »
In “Adapt solar panels for off grid power in Queensland floods” I asked it would be possible to charge the battery in a UPS from a solar panel. The idea would be to disconnect a grid connected solar array during an extended blackout and use it to provide some power in a home or emergencyRead… Read more »
Citizen Lawmaking and Technology: What’s New and What’s Ahead? is the title of my new post at Slaw, the Canadian legal blog. The post describe recent developments in law-related eParticipation, such as ePetition, eConsultation, eRulemaking, electronic voting, and voters’ guides that describe ballot propositions, in the UK, EU, and US. If you know of otherRead… Read more »
I had a great opportunity to share the way that the Arcadia Police Department is using Social Media platforms to interact with the community this past week. On Thursday morning, the Arcadia High School PTA invited us to their monthly PTSA meeting where I was able to demonstrate APD’s use of Nixle for instant andRead… Read more »
When I was CEO, the senior staff would refer to my role as ‘sitting in the big chair’ – I find this is a warm and respectful way to refer to the leader of the organization, and continue to enjoy using it even today. Through many, many conversations with top leaders of all kinds andRead… Read more »
Listen to internet radio with Gary Vaughan on Blog Talk Radio My thanks to Jim LaRocca and Sean Bordner of SusQTech for being guests on today’s Show! For those who missed it, 30 minute recording is available above. Here are the links for Discounts noted during the interview: – For detailed information on SusQTech’s SharePointRead… Read more »
A call for ideas and participation — with submission deadline of 15 February 2011 — has been issued for CTC 2011: The National Center for State Courts’ Court Technology Conference 2011, to be held 4-6 October 2011, in Long Beach, California, USA. According to the call: NCSC invites practitioners, scholars and the private sector toRead… Read more »
What is Normal? It is a mosaic of the things we know, the changes we experience, and the structural shifts that affect how we do business. It’s our collective beliefs about the what – how – why – when – who of doing business. It is dynamic and changes as its elements change. Long agoRead… Read more »
Federal Computer Week recently published my op-ed piece Why best practices won’t fix Federal IT. I’d be very interested in hearing from GovLoop members what they think of it. The idea came from the “25-Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management” released by Vivek Kundra on December 10 of last year. No. 10Read… Read more »
Change Management is a planned approach to transitioning the people of an organization through a business transformation. A unique problem with the implementation of a new system, program or strategy, is the natural resistance of certain individuals to change of any kind. Frequently, this resistance results from personnel not understanding the issues involved. It isRead… Read more »