Yearly Archives: 2011

Richardson on E-Possession

Sally B. Richardson, Esq. presented a paper entitled E-Possession, at ALPS 2011: The Association for Law, Property, and Society Annual Meeting, held 4-5 March 2011 at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, USA. Here is the abstract: To acquire title to real property via adverse possession, the taking party must physically use the propertyRead… Read more »

University of Queensland Librarian on Change in Library Design and Role

Greetings from the 2nd Annual Learning Commons Development and Design Forum, Brisbane. The first speaker was Keith Webster, Librarian, University of Queensland.He started with the good old days where academic libraries were for scholars. The students were only admitted under sufferance and provided they were silent. He used the 1970s UQ biological library as anRead… Read more »

Govloop Bracket Challenge – Status Update – from the Hokie Guru, your bureaucrat on Sports

Sports Awesomeness!! Yo, Yo, Yo!!! #WOO!! So, I don’t know about you, but the Hokie Guru’s 2011 March Madness bracket dropped like the 1929 stock market (so the Guru picked a good name for his bracket haha). SMH!! Without further ado, here’s the leader board update: @HokieHuddle and @RL_Bynum are best positioned to be 1-2Read… Read more »

A well-informed public benefits everyone

By Tom Bullington, Communications Manager As most communicators are well aware, it’s critical to have a sense of what your audience wants (and needs) to hear before you share it. This is especially true when you work for a government. It should be your goal to provide the public with information that matters most inRead… Read more »

Apr 7 Keynote Address at Mobile Apps & Interactive Games Conf

Greenest City by 2020 Project: Bridging Digital and Traditional Participation in Vancouver, BC Susanna Haas Lyons / Public Engagement Specialist, Engaging.ly and Researcher, University of British Columbia and Amanda Mitchell, Greenest City Planning Analyst at the City of Vancouver Join us for an exciting and indepth exploration of how the City of Vancouver, British Columbia,Read… Read more »

GL Chat – Enchanting in the Face of Adversity – Highlights from Guy Kawasaki talk

“If you’re not failing every now and then, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative” – Woody Allen We had an awesome live video chat with Guy Kawasaki today about “How Government Can Be Enchanting?” Well, I’d better preface that to say we had awesome content …but had technical difficulties with getting videoRead… Read more »

Where Is Waldo?

George Washington University professor Kathy Newcomer likened the Obama Administration’s performance agenda to a game of “Where is Waldo?” at a Brookings Institution forum last week on improving government performance. She says “you have to look carefully” to find it. She said there was no orchestrated campaign with a band leading the way. Newcomer’s insightRead… Read more »

A declaration of war

>/sbin/reboot -n … >chown root my/life/now/loulouk >rm negativity >rm self doubt >find . name ‘inspire’*” >chmod 777 inspire >sleep 14h Original post