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5 Critical Cloud Questions Customers Need Answered

This article was posted on Washington Technology on Friday, March 25th. Written by Van Ristau, CTO, DLT Solutions. Cloud computing vendors working with government agencies are seeing a wide range of knowledge among customers and their ability to make informed choices. This is understandable given the explosion of new services and products that have beenRead… Read more »

Civil sector learning event: Exeter, 8th April

Learning Pool, in collaboration with Cosmic, are running an event in Exeter on 8th April to talk about how civil sector organisations can meet their training needs in this age of austerity. Paul McElvaney will be showcasing My Learning Pool – the ludicrously cost-effective new service from Learning Pool that delivers over twenty high qualityRead… Read more »

Pick up the phone

Pick up the phone I recently gave away my old futon mattress on Craigslist (thanks, Craig!). Why does this have to do with job searching? I posted the listing in the “free stuff” section. As anyone knows who has ever posted anything in that section, you are immediately inundated with random emails and calls fromRead… Read more »

Educational Technologist Job Available at ANU

The Educational Development Group of the Australian National University (ANU), College of Engineering and Computer Science has advertised for an “Educational Technologist”:Educational Technologist (G157-11MY) Research School of Engineering, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science Come join the education team in Engineering and Computer Science in redeveloping College courses to realise Original post

Open Plan Learning Centres for Primary Schools

St Monica’s Primary, North Parramatta (NSW) opened a multi-purpose learning centre last May. Funded by the Australian Government Building the Education Revolution, the centre has an open plan area accommodating up to 200 students. The students are divided into groups by stage of development (not strictly by age) with two teachers and an assistant forRead… Read more »

Center for Future Civic Media

The Center for Future Civic Media is “developing the emerging ‘Fifth Estate’ of participatory news, media, and civic change. Civic media is any form of communication that strengthens the social bonds within a community or creates a strong sense of civic engagement among its residents. Civic media goes beyond news gathering and reporting. Learn moreRead… Read more »

E-document and Records Management Course Notes

The note for the course “Electronic Document and Records Management” are available. This was first run as COMP7420 an online course the Australian National University, in the Graduate Studies Select Program in February 2011. My intention is to revise the material and expand it from a six to a twelve week full semester course concentratingRead… Read more »

2011 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference

The 2011 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 1-5 May 2011 at the COBO at Detroit Michigan. This is always an exciting event for technologists enthused about continued improvement of mission capabilities. The conference is focused on the mission of the US DoD intelligence enterprise, but the many topics tackled at the event are ofRead… Read more »

What’s The Goal?

Last weekend I wanted to read “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement” by Eliyahu M. Goldratt again. It’s been a few years since I had, and it was one of the first books that really helped me to internalize many of the concepts I take for granted today. I was delighted to find itRead… Read more »