We haven’t done a live webchat this month yet, so let’s squeeze one in before August is upon us! So, at 11am on 26th July, please join me on the Kind of Digital site for an hour’s live chatter about overcoming barriers to implementing social media type online innovation. Am sure there’s plenty to keepRead… Read more »
It seems traditional classroom training as we know it may be dying, but there are ways to bring it back to life. “Recent remarks* by Tony Bingham, CEO of ASTD, suggested that much of the formal classroom with instructor-led training has gone the way of scheduled classes, blackboards and overhead projectors. Replaced by the ‘pull’Read… Read more »
Time for another Top 10 Twitter list from CEIL! This week, we’ve compiled 10 of our favorite Twitter feeds with a focus on wind energy. @AWEA – AWEA is the voice of wind energy in the U.S., promoting renewable energy to power a cleaner, stronger America. WindPower_Eng – Windpower Engineering & Development covers all aspectsRead… Read more »
As Transportation Nation reports, wireless service is coming to New York’s subways, but progress is slow. The long-delayed project is scheduled for completion in four years, with three Manhattan stations to be wired within six months. Transit Wireless will charge telecom companies for use of the wireless signal and share those revenues with the MetropolitanRead… Read more »
Kent County Council is always looking to create innovative and cost-effective methods of delivering services. One way in which this can be done is through hosting local hack-days for creative students and graduates to come together, to contribute and share ideas and to try out new concepts and prototypes. Who would we invite students toRead… Read more »
There are over a thousand people a month reading this blog right now, and I have almost no idea who any of them are. I’m pretty sure Nick Grossman reads it, and Adam Greenfield from time to time, and my friend Natasha from college (who just told me she reads it every week – totalRead… Read more »
One of the biggest barriers to the growth of the open data movement in my opinion is that nearly every open data related meeting/event is still comprised primarily of data geeks and app developers. The language that is used by this community (e.g. machine readable data, open access, genomes, geo-spatial, etc…) confuses the typical non-geekRead… Read more »
This past 4th of July, the Fox News Political twitter account had some premature fireworks go off, and they weren’t a good display. If you didn’t hear about the story, you can check it out here. If you want the cliff notes version, a group hacked into their site, and sent out some very disturbingRead… Read more »
Here is an interesting article from Dean Obeidallah posted on CNN, Are Social Media Creating the Laziest Generation? Obeidallah comments, “Observing events and then commenting about them on social media has become our national religion. We anxiously wait for the next celebrity to screw up, another politician to be caught in a sex scandal, theRead… Read more »
Deltek Sr. Analyst Jeff Webster reports. The process to contract a vendor for the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System (LA-RICS) has taken another, almost inevitable, twist. A representative within LA County breached a non-disclosure agreement relative to the LA-RICS request for proposals (RFP) on May 23, 2011. This subsequently led the county to issueRead… Read more »