I’ve had a remarkable couple of weeks starting with DevLearn 2011. I’ve had the opportunity to dwell at length with my heroes in the eLearning community. The response from hundreds of attendees at DevLearn to the causes I’ve championed, namely the revolution needed in learning technologies, has been humbling and validating as it became clearRead… Read more »
Today I was at the National Academy of Public Administration’s annual fall meeting. I attended a few sessions of their meeting, and wanted to report back to the GovLoop community. At the conference, I had the opportunity to meet a lot of amazing people who have spent their lives dedicated to public service. Every sessionRead… Read more »
The California State Library just launched a new online resource, – California Demographic Profiles: By Library Jurisdiction and County. It is a great tool to help facilitate a greater understanding of how California’s changing demographics can be used to inform decisions and services. Take a look!
We know that developers will be looking to reuse open data for the OS Open Data and OS Open Space Challenge (not the only challenge, see here for the other one!) for ourcompetition event. So we asked @vacantimouse from ScraperWiki to describe what a tool that enables people to reuse and refine open data. ManyRead… Read more »
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (CA) is developing a new smart card for parking, taxis, and — possibly — Muni rides. Original post
MTA New York City Transit launched a Select Bus Service line on 34th St., replacing a notoriously slow route with its version of bus rapid transit. Original post
Wichita Transit (KS) launched an interactive website to gather feedback about bus services after ridership dropped following a 50-cent fare increase. Original post
GSA is helping secure Federal networks GSA provides many services to federal users, including communications services. They help agencies tap into the best communications industry can offer and does that in ways that can enhance security. One key method is MTIPS, which stands for Managed Trusted Internet Protocol Services (MTIPS). This is a way toRead… Read more »
On December 1, 2011 between 8am and 5pm the National Association of Broadcasters will hold an event focusing on motion imagery lessons learned from the broadcasting community. The event will be a great opportunity to learn more about collection, analysis, reporting, production and dissemination of complex news and sports events. These are topics of interestRead… Read more »
by Ryan Wythe, SF 2011 As I sit here and write this, there could be tens or maybe hundreds of nonviolent protestors setting up tents on the UC Berkeley campus. I just got home from Occupy Cal’s General Assembly where the proposal to support the use of tents as a form of civil disobedience wasRead… Read more »