I’ve been looking at the recently released 2011 A-133 Compliance Supplement and found several items of interest (at least to me) that I thought I would pass along. OMB added a a new element to the core compliance requirements to alert auditors and program officials as to whether the reporting requirements of the Transparency ActRead… Read more »
Earlier, I wrote on the use of Hadoop in the exciting, evolving field of Bioinformatics. I have since had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Ron Taylor of Pacific Northwest National Library, the author of “An overview of the Hadoop/MapReduce/HBase framework and its current applications in bioinformatics“, on what’s changed in the half-year since itsRead… Read more »
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Gadi Ben-Yehuda More than a Twitter Account: Just what qualifies a person to lead a social media proegram or team for the government? Jeff Levy has been asking GovLoopers about the skills and experiences that make a good candidate. (Of course, this class might not hurt!) Wikipeida Experience Seems to Help. The National Archives hasRead… Read more »
OK, sorry about that subject line. I don’t really know if you suck at networking or not. But we can all get better at it, and I’d wager that 90% of us really do ‘suck’ at it. But I know some people do, because I get email on a regular basis asking me to doRead… Read more »
Developers participating in London’s national Hack Day competition will have access to live departure data from National Rail Enquiries (UK). “Since we began licensing apps a few years ago, we’ve dealt with numerous individual developers who have gone on to produce highly successful programs that are used more than a hundred thousand times a day,”Read… Read more »
The following PMP® exam sample question is taken from The Free PMP Exam Simulator at http://free.pm-exam-simulator.com – The answer is at the very bottom: —————————— Which of the following may be considered as the outputs of performing Quality Assurance? A) Requested changes, recommended corrective actions, organizational process assets, project management plan. B) Requested changes, requestedRead… Read more »
Solar panels covering a 2.2-mile Belgian tunnel will generate enough electricity to power 4,000 high-speed trains traveling between Paris and Amsterdam each year. The tunnel was built to protect trains from falling trees in a forest near Antwerp. “For train operators, it is the perfect way to cut their carbon footprints because you can useRead… Read more »
Denver’s Regional Transportation District (CO) has given its police force new tools to catch fare cheats. With electronic ID-inspection devices and wireless printers, transit police can scan a driver’s license to check the passenger’s fare-compliance record. ”Until May, all officers had to use the radio to call in a name check,” said transit police chiefRead… Read more »
I’ve stated before that the Open Yale Game Theory course is a must watch for anyone interested in thinking more strategically about their work, more specifically I think it can help people working in change management or otherwise trying to incite people to action. Key Concepts: backwards induction, best response and Nash equilibrium One ofRead… Read more »