Some San Francisco Bay Area transit districts may have to wait an extra year before joining the regional Clipper card program because the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (CA) does not have enough card readers. The agencies already integrated into the program carry 95% of the region’s transit ridership: Bay Area Rapid Transit, AC Transit, San FranciscoRead… Read more »
The cost efficiency factor gives a lot of flexibility to a negotiator. Let’s be honest: the profit percentage that Weighted Guidelines DD 1547 gives you are very low. In fact, I can’t think of many commercial businesses that would accept a profit of 3% on a contract, especially after all the effort a contractor putsRead… Read more »
The Back to School with Graduate School USA series is supported by the Graduate School USA. How many languages do you know? Ever thought of picking up a new one? For our next installment of the Back to School with Graduate School USA series, let’s be worldly: At this point you may be asking yourself,Read… Read more »
The California Law Hackathon — an effort to build software and tools to improve access to California legislation, on the free Web — will be held 17 September 2011. Physical locations for the Hackathon, to date, are Berkeley, California, at the Maplight Foundation, and Denver, Colorado, at the Denver Open Media Foundation. Remote online participationRead… Read more »
Last week I posted about how General Assembly-style co-working spaces/incubators are about to disrupt higher education, offering basically the same value to their customers at a fraction of the cost of institutional education. Near the end I said non-essential grad programs would either “wither on the vine or else radically transform themselves to stay alive,Read… Read more »
Although man-spaced flight has been put on hold, NASA still has a lot of really cool missions and projects they are working on. One of my hopes is that we get back to the moon and make it a base for manned deep space travel. I came across an article on NextGov which reports thatRead… Read more »
I know some of you get questions day in and day out about how to use Twitter. I thought these Cliff Notes might help. I developed these “Cliff Notes” as a way to help manage expectations and provide someone who is unfamilar with the tool a foundation to start from. We have a more inRead… Read more »
The most recent blog post from the IBM Center’s Dan Chenok looks at three ways his office at OMB was affected by and responded to the events of September 11, 2001. _______ This past week, millions of people here and around the world have remembered the tragedy of 9/11, the bravery shown by so many,Read… Read more »
A few weeks ago, HP attended the National Veterans Wheelchair Games in Pittsburgh, PA, organized by the VA and the Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA). HP was a proud sponsor of the games, and I was able to sit down recently with HP’s Tom Sardelis to talk about his experience at the games. Tom, isRead… Read more »
Earlier today I went to a meeting in my capacity as a school governor and like you do in meetings where you’ve never met people before you often introduce yourself and explain a bit about your background and skills etc. Well I broadly introduce myself as someone who is interested in Social Change but worksRead… Read more »