Miscellaneous

ALA 2011: In New Orleans

New Orleans is a great town for a conference. It’s easy to fall in love with it: the food, the music, the architecture, the history, the people. You can take a cooking class and learn how to make jambalaya at Crescent City Cooks. Or just enjoy the view. Over at the Ernest N. Morial ConventionRead… Read more »

ALA 2011: Opening Reception in Exhibit Hall

The ALA Annual Conference and Exhibit is in gear in New Orleans, LA. This conference brings together more than 25,000 librarians, educators, authors, publishers, literacy experts, illustrators and the leading suppliers to the market. (2011 ALA Conference Overview) One of my favorite things about ALA is the huge exhibit hall. it’s worth attending the conferenceRead… Read more »

Jim Lehrer’s Last Interview with SecDef Gates

This posting reflects my thoughts after viewing the PBS NewsHour program of a few days ago in which Jim Lehrer formally interviewed SecDefense Gates for the last official time. One point in their conversation was of special interest me because Gates’ expressed his feelings on ‘citizen’ involvement in responsibilities and tasks that I’ve shared withRead… Read more »

What’s the Future of Grants Management?

Yesterday, a House subcommittee held hearings on “Improving Oversight and Accountability in Federal Grant Programs.” Officials from OMB, GAO, federal agencies, and the private sector all testified. And while (in my opinion) there was not a lot of new information or new ideas, the fact that Congress is now paying more attention to grants managementRead… Read more »

What you should know about ‘The Really Useful Event 2011 – Data Discovery Workshop’

Register to ‘The Really Useful – Data Discovery Workshop’ NOW and vote for the open data challenges Download the ‘Data Discovery Workshop’ Agenda A. Its one of a kind The LDG Community in conjunction with the Transparency team at DCLG and the LG group are planning a series of events and activities over a 6-monthRead… Read more »

Let’s not just make open data sexy… let’s make it really useful!

To register for the Really Useful event of 1st of July go to http://reallyuseful2011.eventbrite.com and vote for the challenges at http://ru11.ideascale.com Ever since the launch of open data here in the UK by Sir Tim Bernes-Lee in January 2010 with data.gov.uk (who ReadWriteWeb says actually put the US version Data.gov to shame due to theRead… Read more »