Miscellaneous

Breaking Free From PowerPoint: A New Way to Present

Like many of you, I’ve spent years working with PowerPoint. I used it in college for projects. I’ve used it throughout my career internally and externally to present ideas, processes, and results. Although it’s been around since 2009, a friend recently introduced me to “Prezi”, a different way to create dynamic and engaging presentations. IRead… Read more »

Random Data – What Percent of the U.S. is the Population of Each FEMA Region?

Ok Ok…I know…who plays with data for fun? Well, I did…and pulled this little tid bit together and thought I’d share in case anyone was interested. I was interested in figuring out what percentage of the total U.S. population each FEMA Region represented…just something I think about… After pulling 2010 Census Data from http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/ –Read… Read more »

CityCamp Raleigh – Government Panel

I’m here at CityCamp Raleigh, live blogging today and tomorrow. Below are some notes from the first panel on “Government and Technology Industry Experts.” MODERATOR Kevin Curry, CityCamp Co-Founder PANELISTS Jerry Fralick, CIO for the State of North Carolina Adriel Hampton, Gov 2.0 Radio Gail Roper – City of Raleigh, Chief Information and Community RelationsRead… Read more »

Interns Incoming

This is an excerpt from my regular morning post on BeltWiki Blog from WhoRunsGov.com. Read the full post here. Intern Incoming Summer in Washington brings thousands of interns who make the District home for a few months. With them comes the requisite how-to-live-here (without annoying the living heck out of the natives) posts and articles.Read… Read more »

From coast to coast, riders use apps to track buses

AltTransport highlights real-time bus tracking apps from New York to California where, as announced last month, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (CA) recently launched Nextrip. In a related story, KABC-TV spoke with some satisfied customers about LA Metro’s real-time bus arrival information service. “It’s pretty good,” said one rider. “If I know myRead… Read more »

Weekly Update from CEIL’s President

From the President We’ve set the date! So mark your calendars for November 30 – December 1st and register for GOVgreen 2011. We received over 70 submissions for the educational tracks and the Program-at-a-Glance is online for your review. New benefits this year: CEU and USGBC credits for approved courses Expanded exhibit floor with overRead… Read more »

LexisNexis at SLA 2011

It’s summer conference season again and I want to share some information with you about LexisNexis at the 2011 SLA Annual Conference, being held June 12-15 in Philadelphia, PA. Exhibit Hall (INFO-EXPO) LexisNexis Booth LexisNexis will be at Booth #411 and the hours are: Sunday, June 12: 12 – 5 p.m. Monday, June 13: 10Read… Read more »