Last month the American Art Museum received a commendation for Art Signs OnLine from the international JODI Awards which recognize innovative uses of digital media to make museums, galleries, libraries, archives, and heritage venues more accessible to disabled people. Susan Nichols, Chief of Education at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, tells us about the genesisRead… Read more »
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillaradio/494169708/ Yesterday, like every Thursday was #lrnchat, a weekly public Twitter chat I help moderate that focuses on organizational learning. The topic was on “Tools of the Trade” and the group of 100 (more or less) professionals ran through a number of topical questions related to how we find out about, select and replace toolsRead… Read more »
The October 7th edition of Federal Daily says that Disability Hiring for the Feds is hampered by Agency attitudes and low expectations for success. The article references a Government Accountability Office focus group which determined that Federal agencies need to fundamentally change their cultural atmosphere which holds people with disabilities as poor hiring candidates ifRead… Read more »
Here are the references and links to additional resources that my have been left out of my post yesterday. Identity Theft Resources http://www.legalstoc.com/2009/01/07/ftc-to-congress-enact-standards-to-reduce-identity-theft/?http://www.howtostopidentitytheftnow.comwww.creditcards.comwww.consumer.gov/idthefthttp://www.cstb.org/web/project_authenticationhttp://www.humanresources.org/media/resources/resource_209.pdfhttp://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1082290.1082305http://iospress.metapress.com/content/frcjv8nfemh5dxc9/http://www.anti-phishing.org/http://www.verisign.com/products-services/index.htmlhttp://web.njit.edu/~bieber/CIS677F04/stafford-spyware-cais2004.pdfhttp://theprivacyplace.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/tr-2006-18u.pdfhttp://www.springerlink.com/content/w7877437n43u72hq/http://www.loms-itea.org/deliverables/LOMS_D6.3_v1.0.pdfhttp://webpages.cs.luc.edu/~pld/courses/ethics/spr07/rfid/eckfeldt.pdfhttp://www.govtech.com/gt/418253http://www.experian.com/http://www.transunion.com/http://www.equifax.com References Buell, D. & Sandhu, R. (2003). Identity management. IEEE Computer Society, 1-3. Milne, G. R. (2003). How well do consumers protect themselves from identity theft? The Journal of Consumer Affairs, (37)Read… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Salon interviews Steven Johnson, the author of “Where Good Ideas Come From,” who argues that what we need to focus on is making incremental changes rather than trying to achieve singular epiphanies or game-changing brakthroughs. Great advice for career govvies! Mashable explores the difference between facebook and twitter, saying that the former isRead… Read more »
What I have noticed over many years of working in local government is that residents who call with concerns or problems will at some point announce how many years they have lived in that particular city. It can be anywhere from 1 to 90+ years. But no matter the amount of time, the declaration isRead… Read more »
So I know I rarely post here anymore, but this link was too epic to let slide: http://gawker.com/5663101/pat-sajaks-coming-to-take-your-vote-away Wherein you find one Pat Sajak questioning whether Feds should be eligible for the vote or even some lovely parting gifts. None of my family and friends is allowed to appear on Wheel of Fortune. Same goesRead… Read more »
I’d like to continue on Scott Horvath’s blog post about Facebook’s “Download Your Data” with a quick analysis from a public records retention viewpoint. Having researched this issue thoroughly in the past and blogging “Apps.gov Needs to Carry the Public Records Torch” on GovLoop, I keep a close eye on this. For background, agencies nationwideRead… Read more »
Job That Matters follow up opportunity ? I have received an email invite to an event on October 14 where i identified your topic as relavance to my expertise and knoweldge relating to ‘technology innovation & entrepreneurship’ utilzing the Stimulous Package (SP) grants requirement of PPP (private public partnership) for job creatiion tasks that alsoRead… Read more »
Originally posted at my blog: http://wethegoverati.wordpress.com Rocket scientists, software developers, systems engineers, and all the other people that work at Goddard helping us better understand the earth and space are smart. That’s a given. But how do they improve their practice, learn from each other, and continue to improve on overwhelmingly complex tasks? In aRead… Read more »