Yearly Archives: 2010

Introduction to Legal Ontologies & the Legal Semantic Web, by Núria Casellas

Professor Núria Casellas of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament de Ciència Política i Dret Públic and Institute of Law and Technology (IDT) has published Semantic Enhancement of Legal Information… Are We Up for the Challenge?, on the VoxPopuLII Blog, a publication of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. Dr. Casellas’s postRead… Read more »

Join Me at Open Gov West: Our Model Works Best with 2 or more Opensocial Portals

Join me @OpenGovWest March 26, 27 2010 in Seattle, WA: OpenNASA/OpenXXX, our model works best with 2 portals: http://bit.ly/7SdY4w My idea for two next-gen portals: Gadgets for Govt Benefits. OpenOPM/OpenNASA: http://tinyurl.com/ykjj6g8 My idea for two opensocial portals: Disaster Recovery use case. OpenDHS/OpenNASA: http://ideascale.com/t/UB3dZGF0 OpenEPA v2.0 Portal: Earth Apps for “Going Green”: http://openepa.ideascale.com/a/dtd/24726-7042 Apps.gov on SteroidsRead… Read more »

IPMA Raffle Supports Clinton Bush Haiti Fund – Original Stained Glass Panel for Haitian Relief

Rockville, MD – 2/10/2010 – Artist and Executive Coach Bruce Ervin Wood recently donated one of his unique pieces of stained glass art to the International Public Management Association – Human Resources, Montgomery County Chapter. The Chapter’s members lead human resources and organizational development functions for the Department of Heath and Human Services (HHS), theRead… Read more »

I want to refer the GovLoop community to TechView, a new web site/blog that I am hosting

It’s called Focus Washington TechView, and it’s goal is to explore the intersection of government, technology, and policy (not politics, but policy with a small “p”). It is mostly video interviews with DC-based tech reporters, tech industry luminaries who are doing interesting things (we did an interview recently with a telecom guy who lead aRead… Read more »

Who is the real Governator?

I apologize for the redirect but I have links and attachments on my original blog. Check it out and let me know what you think. http://johnfmoore.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/which-us-governor-is-really-the-twitter-governor/ John

Frederick software company employee uses resources to help native Haiti

[source — gazette.net] For Rosemary Dyer, clicking the refresh button on her Facebook page for the last two weeks has been a matter of life and death. The Haiti native, a quality assurance analyst at the downtown Frederick software-building and technology company, Yakabod, has been using the social networking site to find out what happenedRead… Read more »

OpenGov is Real (I’ve added it to my spellcheckers)

February 6, 2010 — OpenGov websites and Public Engagement Tools A week ago, OpenGov with the progress of the Open Government Directive moved to a new level, and one that many of us in the community have long anticipated. The schedule laid out by the OGD prescribes an almost ‘lightening round’ (for the slow, deliberateRead… Read more »