Monday Mantra
No matter how you tell yourself you feel, get up, dress up, show up.
Miscellaneous
Hacking the hacktivist: The inside scoop on how Anonymous works
Hacking the hacktivist: The inside scoop on how Anonymous works by GovLoop Insights 2011 may very well be the year of Anonymous — the hactivist group took down the Justice Department website, Stratfor, mastercard, defense contractor Vanguard and even the Vatican. Their reach is impressive…and even more so when you consider how Anonymous runs. TheRead… Read more »
The Importance of Preserving Institutional Knowledge in the Public Sector
One of the important steps that an organization can take is improving its knowledge management programs. Knowledge management can be used to describe numerous initiatives, but the central goal is to preserve institutional knowledge. Organizations have taken different approaches to knowledge management, by either using a high level software service or other low cost initiativesRead… Read more »
Good morning, here are Friday’s political law links
ARE YOU READING THIS ON YOUR NEW IPAD? Did you the fight the urge to join the lines at the Apple store today to get a new iPad? This site looks great on iPads of all generations, especially since I upgraded my formatting last week (or, in WordPress lingo, my “theme”) to accommodate tablets andRead… Read more »
New on GovLoop: Drop Downs and Tag Choices in Blogs
Way back in November 2010 (“GovLoop Tags and Feeds Project”), I asked the GovLoop community if anyone would be interested in helping me on a little project – figuring out a way to collect and categorize the tags associated with blogs and forums so that it would be easier to mine the vast treasure troveRead… Read more »
Civic institutes this summer (via Peter Levine’s blog)
Here’s a great little list straight from Peter Levine’s blog at http://peterlevine.ws/?p=8351… People interested in various aspects of civic education and civic renewal have a whole range of summer institutes to consider in 2012. At Tufts, we offer a Summer Institute of Civic Studies (a seminar with a strong focus on theory) followed by aRead… Read more »
Civic institutes this summer (via Peter Levine’s blog)
Here’s a great little list straight from Peter Levine’s blog at http://peterlevine.ws/?p=8351… People interested in various aspects of civic education and civic renewal have a whole range of summer institutes to consider in 2012. At Tufts, we offer a Summer Institute of Civic Studies (a seminar with a strong focus on theory) followed by aRead… Read more »
Fluency
I just participated in my first Hackathon – it focused on coding for Google Apps and we developed an automated meeting registration system. A hackathon is the gathering of a group of developers and their computers with a goal of creating something during the session. Jan Kleinert led the session and, as usual, the GoogleRead… Read more »
Soldier’s Killing Spree Likely to Incite Violence
www.homelandsecuritynet.com NATO’s International Security Assistance Force has confirmed that an American soldier recently turned himself in, and admitted to leaving his base in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province and went on a rampage from house to house in villages adjacent to his base, killing 16 Afghan people in their homes. Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai immediately demanded anRead… Read more »
Opening Up Government: Using Data to Stimulate Economic Growth
Recently IBM released a report, Opening Up Government: How to Unleash the Power of Information for New Economic Growth. If you are interested in open government, I highly recommend taking a look at the report. There are many elements that I did not touch upon in this quick summary. One example would be there isRead… Read more »