CFL, LED, incandescent. The simple light bulb is clearly a think of the past, but how do modern, energy efficient bulbs differ from the incandescent versions of the past? One of the writers at cnet wondered the same thing and recently published a “regular person’s review” of the various bulbs. The color differences in theRead… Read more »
Councils are using demographic research information to target sections of the population to encourage them to access their services online. Many local authorities are using research tools to compile and analyse statistical information about their community. A report such as this one published on Kent County Council’s website contains a wealth of information that canRead… Read more »
BREAKING NEWS: President Obama has just confirmed that the DC earthquake occurred on a rare and obscure fault-line, apparently known as “Bush’s Fault”. Obama also announced that the Secret Service and Maxine Waters continues an investigation of the quake’s suspicious ties to the Tea Party. Libertarians however have proven that it was caused by theRead… Read more »
As part of the continuing push by the Administration to reduce the amount of redundancy and to cut red tape through a review of existing federal regulations, agencies recently announced their final plans that describe what they will begin to consider as possible reforms to current regulations to execute on the President’s Executive Order. TheRead… Read more »
The following is a guest post from Jayme Hummer, associate at The Path of the Blue Eye Project, an innovative health marketing/communications initiative. In 2009, we launched a very special initiative designed to aid collaboration and knowledge sharing/acquisition in health marketing communications called the Path of the Blue Eye Project. Since then, we have beenRead… Read more »
Yesterday I posted David Shumaker’s article: The Value Proposition of Embedded Librarianship. Today, I want to continue on that theme with this article by Mary Talley, co-author of the SLA Funded Research Project: Models of Embedded Librarianship, 2009 for this article: Rethinking Value: How Embedded Roles Makes Us Valuable. This article was originally published inRead… Read more »
By Abigail Omojola, 2011 Baton Rouge Fellow Unlike Alexander Aldrich, the Executive Director of the Vermont Arts Council, I have not been following the debate which resulted in Kansas becoming the first state to eliminate state appropriations for arts programs. Nonetheless, I am angry. I am angry that for some reason you truly believe thatRead… Read more »
Last month, Encore.org and She Writes ran a story competition. The challenge: in 250-words-or-less, answer these questions: “Did you reinvent yourself in midlife? Have you had an “encore” career, as a writer or in some other form? What is your story of rebirth?” The inspiration: a new book by Civic Ventures founder Marc Freedman titledRead… Read more »
by Danielle Fitts (SF2011) One morning in late May, I stepped off the bus in the Civic Center neighborhood in San Francisco and noticed that rainbow flags were flying from every street lamp. For those of you who are not familiar, the rainbow flag is a symbol of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) prideRead… Read more »
by Megan Degeneffe, SF2011 Brooke Budner and Caitlyn Galloway are the sort of people who are important to making government work. Brooke and Caitlyn run Little City Gardens, a for-profit experiment to find out if growing food in the city can be profitable. The problem came when Little City Gardens attempted to expand and discoveredRead… Read more »