Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has finalized a partnership between the University of Massachusetts Human Stem Cell Bank and the United Kingdom Stem Cell bank. The partnership is designed to help both entities share best practices and collaborate on standards for stem cell line characterization, production and distribution throughout the US and UK. The UMass HumanRead… Read more »
How are race relations question was asked back in February. Tomorrow, St Patrick’s day, is a great example that we are living well together. Today is the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil war – tomorrow many people regardless race, creed, color or gender will party as “The Irish” Many will dress up.Read… Read more »
This post originally appeared on my external blog, “Social Media Strategery.” When someone in the communications industry refers to a “community manager,” they are usually referring to someone that can manage the online relationships for a particular brand, using tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. However, over the last few years, a new Community ManagerRead… Read more »
First off what is GovMadness: GovMadness is a crowdsourcing competition hosted on GovLoop to determine which gov’t city or federal agency is the most awesome via your votes. The competition is set up to replicate NCAA march madness. It’s pretty awesome and you can win stuff so you should probably participate. Every few days orRead… Read more »
ClearedJobs.Net HR Strategist Patra Frame talks about the importance of networking, how to build your network and the challenges facing those transitioning from the military to the civilian world.
I have been pondering what would happen to our digital content if I said to colleagues: ‘what would you do differently if you got a pound for every time your report was downloaded; someone visited the landing page, or said they had followed one of your’ recommendations? As soon as I have said this toRead… Read more »
I wrote about some of my favorite around the office acronyms for ClearanceJobs.com – but I figure the folks in this community could probably teach me a few new ones! I’d love to hear your favorite around-the-office acronyms. Funny anecdotes also appreciated! Military acronyms – love ‘em or hate ‘em if you work in defenseRead… Read more »
In light of recent surges in the price of oil – and the price of gas at the pump – we wanted to share a statement from the CEO of Hess Corporation. John B. Hess, the Chairman and CEO of Hess stated, according to The New York Times, “The $140-per-barrel oil price of three yearsRead… Read more »
This article was originally published on Tri Tuns Blog. OBSERVATION People often talk about corporate culture but they really don’t know how to sufficiently explain / define it, how to influence it, or how it can influence an IT project implementation. You may have tried to define what the culture of your client’s organization isRead… Read more »
My first rough draft of a poster on “International Graduate Level Sustainable ICT Course” is avilable. This for the conference CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011, in Sydney 3 to 6 April 2011. I would welcome comments. Sustainable ICT Courses are being introduced at the vocational training level and more rarely at undergraduate and graduate levels. This paperreportsRead… Read more »