Should you be worried?

It’s your weekly dose of TSP Talk from www.tsptalk.com. It was an interesting week for the stock market. The losses were not overly extreme, but the action sure was. For the week, the C-fund was down 0.68%, the S-fund lost 1.29%, and the continued strength in the dollar pushed the I-fund down 3.11%. The F-fundRead… Read more »

Federal Eye: Eye Opener: Should the federal government close Tuesday?

Happy Monday! And Happy Snow Day (for most)! Washington area federal offices are closed today, which means the region’s largest employer will keep most workers away from the office. The decision marks the first time the government has shut down this year due to the weather and only the second time during the Obama administration.Read… Read more »

Álvarez Sabucedo et al. on a Knowledge-based platform for eGovernment agents: A Web-based solution using semantic technologies

Luis M. Álvarez Sabucedo of Universidade de Vigo Telematic Engineering Department, and colleagues, have published Knowledge-based platform for eGovernment agents: A Web-based solution using semantic technologies, 37 Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal 3647 (2010). Here is the abstract: Currently eGovernment is clearly gaining momentum in our society. Many solutions and projects are beingRead… Read more »

How To – Accessibility Hack #2: Using Headings to Improve Navigation

This is a crosspost of dotgov.com In his review of New York City’s website, the esteemed web accessibility expert Jim Thatcher docked the site points for not having headings, which assist readers in navigating the content. WebAIM’s Screen Reader User Survey found that headings are the primary mechanism for finding information within a page. ARead… Read more »

Ten Things to Monitor As Agencies Invite Input On Open Government Plans

This post was originally published on the Intellitics blog: Ten Things to Monitor As Agencies Invite Input On Open Government Plans Now that a whole lot of agency.gov/open websites are live and many agencies have indeed set up a ”mechanism for the public to […] [p]rovide input on the agency’s Open Government Plan” it’s timeRead… Read more »

Social media = letting others in

“You can’t take advantage of the connectivity, reach and viral nature of the beast without also being willing to connect, reach many people and let others share. It’s like wanting to enjoy the sensation of flying over the water in a boat at high speed but without the engine noise. It’s the “other people” partRead… Read more »