I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Not a geek – Matt Gemmell Technology vs. Democracy from @jjn1 Textal – A free smartphone app for text analysis Structure and Harmony With Innovation Tools via @wazokuhq Some Mooc points (specifically related to adult learning) from @petecaldwell Understanding Douglas Engelbart by @jjn1 A PTLLS microteachRead… Read more »
The theme of last week for the stock market was – up. On Monday the S&P 500 broke above strong resistance, and thanks to the Fed, stocks put it in overdrive on Thursday taking the indices near new highs. Here are the up-to-date weekly, monthly, and annual TSP fund returns through July 12. More gainsRead… Read more »
Everyone feels stuck at some point. Stuck in a job they don’t enjoy, stuck in a community they would rather not live in, stuck in a relationship that no longer feels as good as it once did. Stuck in anything not only feels awful, it means that we believe we are no longer making progress,Read… Read more »
The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Patrol plans to modernize the payload of its unmanned aircraft system in an effort to bolster security, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, the Atlantic Wire has reported. Philip Bump writes the upgrade could cover the synthetic aperture radar, ground moving target and micro-motion target indicators, automatic target recognitionRead… Read more »
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In Roger’s absence we’d like to build on a previous blog post written by him on the importance of robust communication to maintain a federal acquisition system that responds to the needs of federal agencies, contractors and taxpayers. As GSA develops strategic sourcing vehicles and restructures it Multiple Award Schedule contract vehicles, now more thanRead… Read more »
Looking for something else, I have just stumbled across some notes I took from a book I was reading almost exactly ten years ago (and which had been published that year). Normally I try hard to give proper attribution to quotations, but this time it might be kinder not to: It seems clear that, unlikeRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Another international edition! Across the Pond: iCity aims to “open up public infrastructures in urban spaces promoting the co-creation of services of public interest” Teutonic Cyberspace: TechPresident reports: “In the run-up to the German national election in September, Electronic Arts has arranged for three German members of the Bundestag to play the GermanRead… Read more »
The National Association of Government Communicators, in partnership with FedInsider and Adobe, continues its Webinar Series Tuesday, July 16, 2013, at 2 p.m. EDT, with the next one-hour session, “Social Media – Get Ready to Analyze and Engage”, featuring NAGC’s Competition’s Director, Marisa Ellison, of the Missouri Department of Transportation. The Federal Digital Government StrategyRead… Read more »
Now that Australia has finally sent a letter of intent to join the Open Government Partnership, I’ve been reading examples of how other jurisdictions went about developing their National Action Plans (a requirement of OGP membership) to foster and support government openness. It is clear that one of the key attributes of the most meaningfulRead… Read more »