Last week I had the awesome experience of participating in a global telepresence conference on government cloud computing. Joining me as presenters were Blake Salle, Senior Vice President of VCE, who shared a roadmap which focused on goals and objectives to better serve goverment organizations and their constituents, and Joshua McCloud, Public Sector Solutions ArchitectRead… Read more »
There has been a lot of hype around the not-so-new social network called Quora in the past few weeks. Quora describes itself as: A continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. Or as David Griner puts it: It’s like the community side of LinkedIn, merged withRead… Read more »
The MAPS mapping volunteers have posted an interesting report on their work mapping the Queensland floods:… RCQ created a project that involved volunteers from GISCorps and MAPS. This project produced a number of documents which outlined possible scenarios, hardware and software requirements, etc. The GISCorp volunteers also focused on mapping the capacisty of RCQ EmergencyRead… Read more »
As KING 5 News reporter Drew Mikkelsen reports, police and prosecutors testified in favor of it at Wednesday’s standing-room-only hearing at the Capitol Original post
Johnelle Bryson Welsh’s dissertation “Identifying Factors That Predict Student Success in a Community College Online Distance Learning Course” (2007) while researching US colleges, provides useful insights into students of e-learning courses generally. Demographic variables (such as age and gender) do not effect course results. The online students tend to older, married, worked full-time, and OriginalRead… Read more »
Which agency do you like best and why?
Back office procedures to operate an awards program- are they based on politics or best practices?
How is insourcing affecting you?
Joint Base Myer – Henderson Hall needed someone to organize a small business conference for them, so we did and started FederalAllies.org to facilitate the annual event. Anybody else need a small business conference?
According to NOAA, 2010 was one of the hottest years on record, in fact it tied for the hottest. Here are a few of the 2010 US Climate Highlights from the NOAA release of the data: In the contiguous United States, 2010 was the 14th consecutive year with an annual temperature above the long-term average.Read… Read more »