On August 19, 2011, the Department of Energy (DOE) will be co-sponsoring an outreach event for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses who wish to provide products or services to DOE. This event, Showcase Expo and MatchMaker, will be held in Washington D.C., and is co-sponsored by GovConectx. This is an excellent opportunity for companies toRead… Read more »
In addition to the PMP Training updates made for the changes in the PMP exam, the 1,800-question PMP Exam Simulator I recommend is also being updated for you. I received this message from Cornelius of OSP International, about this sample test simulator I beta-tested and recommend as an affiliate. Hello PMI is changing the PMPRead… Read more »
Writing in The Globe and Mail blog, Richard Gilbert asks whether technology has finally caught up to the promise of personalized rapid transit. He cites examples of automated transit that emerged from the urban transportation revolution that started in the 1960s, from Morgantown’s (WV) PRT (which he calls group rapid transit, or GRT) to theRead… Read more »
In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with using Social Media to meet new people, but there is a fine line between being a Fool (as in a fool for love) and Foolish. Cumberland County freeholder Louis Magazzu desides to resign after nude photos he sent to a woman he was romantically involved with wereRead… Read more »
Curbside intercity buses like Bolt and Megabus, which pick up and drop off passengers on public streets instead of using a terminal, are attracting riders from Amtrak trains and airplanes thanks to cheap fares, WiFi, and free bottled water. In a study of 1,025 intercity bus passengers in six cities, researchers at DePaul University (IL)Read… Read more »
(there is a section on this topic focused on governments below) A hint of how social data could change journalism Anyone who’s heard me speak in the last 6 months knows I’m excited about BuzzData. This week, while still in limited access beta, the site is showing hints its potential – and it still hasRead… Read more »
We often talk of how open data can be used to help people make sense of the services they use or how an organisation performs, in other words getting smart about data. There are tools that can help those with the expertise do that and others which are more useful for people like you andRead… Read more »
On April 19, 1995, a bomb detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, destroying much of the building, including its daycare center. More than 160 people lost their lives that day, 99 of them civilian federal employees, targeted because they worked for the U.S. government. In the days following this tragedy,Read… Read more »
Research Digital Junkies (07/2011) – A new McKinsey report highlights a dramatic increase in the intensity with which people use digital devices and platforms. Nearly half of online consumers in the U.S. are advanced users of smartphones, social networks, and other emerging tools. Mobile Trends (07/26/2011) – The fastest growing mobile activity is VoiceoverInternet ProtocolRead… Read more »
Today was one of those days filled with many micro tasks. And as @motownmutt pointed out yesterday on Twitter, listing tasks is most definitely something an engineer does. So here we go with most of the things I focused on today brought to you in typical engineering list fashion: Picking out Frames and Grates EarlyRead… Read more »