Http://LeonardSipes.Com There are endless reports about the ever increasing presence of video in our digital world. Another from Nielsen is below. The truly amazing thing is the presence of YouTube and the ability of having a free hosting source for your video products. All you have to do is create and link to YouTube fromRead… Read more »
Learning is Doing. It’s not just cracking the books, it’s making something new. Making new makes learning stick. Research and study are tools to get to the doing part. Learning conductors do a better job when they conduct from concept to completion. Shipping provides lessons that are not to be missed, that retroactively change understandingRead… Read more »
Every day, for the next month, maybe two depending on how annoyed my followers become, I’m going to do something a bit bizarre. I’m going to tell everyone what I’m doing. I think you should too, if you work in local government and here’s why. I read a comment by @ermintrude2 (she’s a social worker,Read… Read more »
It’s not iterative if you only do it once. Paul Hammond Original post
Today, I start my first day as a professor of public speaking in a hybrid teaching environment. Oh, I’m not new to teaching–just the environment. Granted, it’s been awhile. It is both an exciting and daunting task. I won’t mention any names because it really doesn’t matter what institution it is; they are all relativelyRead… Read more »
One of the hardest roles anyone has in a corporation today is that of leadership. Like Peter Drucker and Henry Mintzberg, I separate leadership from management. Leadership suggests strategy and change, while management focuses on operational excellence –doing what others are doing , may be a little better—think best practices. What brought upon the insightsRead… Read more »
Federal Computer Weekly reports that the Department of Labor and Facebook have partnered up to create the Social Jobs Partnership. This is an effort to use social networks to facilitate employment for those currently unemployed. The Facebook page states: In the interest of getting people back to work, the partnership plans to pursue a numberRead… Read more »
Taking notes at ACT/IAC ELC from panel “Innovation Happens!” Job as CTO is to find out what’s happening Energy Summit -Search needed to solve business problem – like when Energy loans Coalera If we aren’t leveraging the work GSA is doing to bring vendor relations together at one, we are stovepiping it. GSA is under-utlizedRead… Read more »
Today celebrates the first annual national Food Day. I caught up with Lilia Smelkova to get the full scoop… What is Food Day? Food Day is a national grassroots campaign for healthy, affordable food produced in humane, sustainable and just way. Food Day is modeled after Earth Day, and will take place anually on OctoberRead… Read more »
As facial recognition technology has become popular for law enforcement purposes, Congress has become increasingly more concerned about privacy protection surrounding this software. “As in many fast growing and changing sectors, public policy has not kept pace with the development of this sort of technology,” [Senator] Rockefeller wrote in a letter to FTC Chairman JonRead… Read more »