http://blogs.govexec.com/fedblog/2009/07/john_berrys_speech_at_excellen.php By Govlooper Alyssa Rosenberg Monday, July 20, 2009 4:40 PM Berry just gave an extended speech on his vision for the civil service, to one of the largest audiences he’s faced since taking office. A New Day for the Civil Service Thank you. It’s an honor to be here today to talk about theRead… Read more »
PRESS RELEASE GAO Enlists New Technologies to Report Its Findings WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 7, 2009) — The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), known as the “investigative arm of Congress,” has established a presence on YouTube and Twitter to help users of such sites stay informed about GAO’s work. “GAO is always exploring ways to useRead… Read more »
IT project transparency produced and managed by OMB http://it.usaspending.gov/ A News story from FCW Government IT spending put on full display in new Web site IT Dashboard uses visualization technology to display spending details * By Doug Beizer * Jun 30, 2009 The Office of Management and Budget launched a Web site today that usesRead… Read more »
Perhaps rephrasing to “wordy PowerPoint Presentations and their effect on learning” From The Association for Psychological Science More Talk, Less Chalk: Lexically Sparse Slides Improve Recall of Taught Material Classroom use of presentation software, whereby information is simultaneously delivered verbally and visually, risks overloading students’ working memory and impairing learning. We compared traditional and lexically-sparseRead… Read more »
From Macworld.com Twitter “”twitpocalypse”” affects Mac, iPhone apps The surging popularity of the Twitter messaging service has broken at least one Twitter client application and affected another as a part of what is being called “the Twitpocalypse.” Each message on Twitter is assigned a unique identification number. On Friday evening, the number of tweets exceededRead… Read more »
Couldn’t say it any better than Ms. Noveck OSTP Blog OSTP == Office of Science & Technology Policy Enhancing Citizen Participation in Decision-Making Transparency, a concept we have discussed a lot in the Open Government Initiative, is a means to an end. One of the important roles that transparency plays is to facilitate public participationRead… Read more »
Would SUGGEST that this blog posting from the Harvard Business Review website has PERHAPS some usefulness across several groups… Author: Steven DeMaio Leading When You Don’t Have Formal Authority Whether you’re a manager, a frontline worker, or an independent contractor, at one time or another you’ve surely had to influence, or even improve, the performanceRead… Read more »
Alvin Toffler’s prophesy: “The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” From the Harvard Business blog: http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/nayar/2009/02/learn-unlearn-and-relearn.html A Time for Flexible, Positive Leaders 3:31 PM Friday February 20, 2009 As the world looks back to look ahead, nothing could ringRead… Read more »
Yes, from UK but IMO has a great deal of relevance for ANY government entity wishing to go to the next level regarding involvement http://poit.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/poit/ From the Executive Summary: The Taskforce’s recommendations affect the things people do with the broadband networks that are the major focus of Digital Britian. This report is about improving DigitalRead… Read more »
AND Perhaps and invite to an Event! http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/02/23/drapeau-rise-of-goverati.aspx Drapeau: The rise of the goverati Lately, there has been a lot of buzz about social media technologies in Washington. Web 2.0 technologies such as WordPress, Twitter and Qik are taking communications and personal interactions into new realms. But one local trend in the field of socialRead… Read more »