Free webinar on how technology can support public sector collaboration

I’m hosting free webinar, thanks to Learning Pool, that will take you through the benefits that technology can bring to collaboration within public services. Covering the main tools and the strategies to implement them, attendees will be able to identify the right solutions to enable them to manage change, talent, knowledge and learning within theirRead… Read more »

Intranet is a Misnomer

On paper, intranets make sense: a private computer network that uses Internet Protocol to securely share any part of an organization’s information or network operating system within that organization (from Wikipedia). However, despite using the same protocols and user interface (a web browser) they are incredibly different. Looking at the disparity between the Internet andRead… Read more »

Teaching Cloud Computing to Google

Professor Jeffrey Ullman will sepak on Map-Reduce and its Children, 21st February 2011 in Canberra.Professor Jeffrey UllmanMap-Reduce and Its ChildrenAbstractSince its publication by Google researchers in 2004, Map-reduce has proven to be a significantadvance in programming methodology that offers resilient, easy-to-code parallel computation ona modern computing cluster or “cloud.” It has led to Original post

#SMEMChat Fridays at 12:30 p.m. (ET)

Many of us in the #gov20 space are trying to sort through the conundrum of #crisisdata, the result of seemingly endless Facebook posts, tweets, videos, photos and more. There’s great work going on at Crisis Commons and they’ve literally helped people and save lives. For those of us in emergency operations centers and joint informationRead… Read more »

Schultze on PACER, RECAP, and the Movement to Free American Case Law

Stephen Schultze of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy has posted PACER, RECAP, and the Movement to Free American Case Law, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Mr. Schultze describes the origins of RECAP, an innovative project to publicly disseminate U.S. federal courtRead… Read more »

Planning 2011 Generation of Government Summit

Last year’s was awesome, and now the 2011 conference is coming. These are a few photos of brainstorming sessions. Take a look. If there’s an idea up there that you would like to see, let us know. See and download the full gallery on posterous Permalink | Leave a comment » Original post

Survey of Course Content Authoring Tools

A Survey of Course Content Authoring Tools is being conducted by Lachlan Blackhall from the Educational Development Group, College of Engineering & Computer Science at the Australian National University. This is to see which would be suitable for engineering and computer science courses. Lachlan would like to get input from beyond the ANU and educatorsRead… Read more »

Do we really know how to work and follow our dreams? New Movement Career Dropout

The Career Dropout Movement: Career Dropout is a cultural movement for fearless individuals who’ve amassed dreams and passions beyond their 9-to-5 jobs. This movement is inspiring, liberating and creative, because so many people have suppressed their dreams in the name of conformity, stability, expectation, and financial gain; usually based on their pursuits of career attainment,Read… Read more »