Every month I have the honor of presenting, How to Use the Internet and Social Media in Your Job Search, to a group of very dedicated government professionals who are transitioning. While we present this class to many groups each month, this group is the most challenging due to their resistance to being on theRead… Read more »
A Detroit Free Press editorial asks whether an elevated magnetic levitation system, currently pitched by SkyTran, can revitalize Detroit (MI). Original post
In “Connecting a Samsung TV to the Internet” I had decided to reconfigure a low cost wireless router, to be a repeater bridge using the open source DD-WRT software. This was so I could plug a TV into the Internet. DD-WRT turned out to be very easy to install. I downloaded the appropriate software andRead… Read more »
Not everyone is concerned that iPhones track and store information about user locations, but Wired explains why the feature creates a security risk. Original post
TriMet (OR) launched an online performance dashboard that tracks ridership, cost per ride, on-time performance, revenues, and collisions. Original post
https://www.govloop.com/group/customerserviceingovernment/forum/topics/how-can-an-agency-improve-if Please check at this post from the Customer Service in Government Group. How would you solve this problem?
I grew up in quite a remote village. The nearest record shop was Andy’s Records and was in Taunton, a 20 mile round trip on a shuttle bus which went about as much the long way around as it was possible to do so. I never felt very comfortable in there, and when I didRead… Read more »
On Thursday, February 10, in an act of friendship and cooperation on behalf of South Africa, paleo-anthropologist Lee Berger donated casts of recently uncovered Australopithecus sediba fossils to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Despite having explored the area hundreds of times, Berger only discovered the remains of this new early human ancestor in theRead… Read more »
To be successful over the long-term, Open Government efforts can’t be a separate line item on the balance sheet With the recent news that several major Open Government efforts including USASpending.gov, Data.gov, and FedSpace may be shut down due to budget cuts and that the Pentagon has disbanded their social media office, many people inRead… Read more »
You may have noticed that a few years ago Facebook created a translation app to crowd source translations. The basic concept works like this: Step One – Translate the Glossary with all the core terms, people vote translations up or down to determine which ones stick. Step Two – Translate all of Facebook into theRead… Read more »