The SLA 2011 Leadership Summit is taking place in Washington,DC from January 19 – 22nd. The Summit theme is — Future Ready: Building Community. The programs focus on building, expanding, and enhancing our professional communities. One of the things that I find when going to a conference like this is that although the programs areRead… Read more »
As KING 5 News reporter Drew Mikkelsen reports, police and prosecutors testified in favor of it at Wednesday’s standing-room-only hearing at the Capitol Original post
Johnelle Bryson Welsh’s dissertation “Identifying Factors That Predict Student Success in a Community College Online Distance Learning Course” (2007) while researching US colleges, provides useful insights into students of e-learning courses generally. Demographic variables (such as age and gender) do not effect course results. The online students tend to older, married, worked full-time, and OriginalRead… Read more »
Starting with version 2.2 MOOS Project Viewer is also available in Italian language. Plus a new important feature was added so that users can now filter tasks by various criteria and get better presentation results. MOOS Project Viewer is a cost saving solution for project stakeholders to view project details in a dynamic way andRead… Read more »
Rick Grimm, CPPO, CPPB, Executive Vice President/ CEO of the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing; Marcheta E. Gillespie, CPPO, C.P.M., CPPB, CPM, Deputy Director for the City of Tucson’s Department of Procurement; and Tom Sadowski, former Director of Accounting for the State of Missouri and the University of Missouri, Association of Government Accountants (AGA), discussRead… Read more »
Michael J. Astrue has been the commissioner of Social Security since 2007. As commissioner, Astrue has focused his efforts on reducing the disability backlog and improving service to the public, particularly through electronic services. He has served in all three branches of government and spent 14 years in the biotechnology industry. Astrue is also anRead… Read more »
I attended the Content.gov seminar in DC today. The seminar was hosted by Alfresco and of course revolved around how this open-source enterprise content management tool can improve content management for government agencies. I’ve experimented with it a bit and think it is a good product. What I took away from the conference was someRead… Read more »
Over at the IBM Center for the Business of Government Blog, Dan Chenok has posted an article about the privacy implications raised by a few recent reports and their implications for government managers. Dan looks closely at: “Preliminary Staff Report” from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) A “Green Paper” from the Department of Commerce entitledRead… Read more »
Late last week, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed an executive order that directs state agencies “to conditionally establish and operate a state-based healthcare benefit exchange.” Indiana is the latest in a string of states that are both suing the federal government over the Affordable Care Act and preparing to comply with it. In a statementRead… Read more »
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