Miscellaneous

New Tool for Visualizing Congressional Bills: IBM Many Bills / DocBlocks

Yannick Assogba, Irene Ros, and Matt McKeon, all of the IBM Research Visual Communication Lab, presented DocBlocks: Communication-Minded Visualization of Topics in U.S. Congressional Bills, at CHI 2010: The 28th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held 10-15 April 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Here is the abstract: US Federal legislation is aRead… Read more »

Design For America– Have you entered?

I interviewed Sunlight Lab’s guru Clay Johnson on the Design For America competition (click here to watch interview). The winners will be announced at the Gov 2.0 Expo on May 25th. Make sure you get your entry in before the deadline. Click here for more details.

Interview with DAU’s Mike Lambert

Below is an interview conducted with Mike Lambert, who is active in improving knowledge management and training systems for the defense acquisition workforce. In particular, I advise you find Mike on GovLoop. How did you get to where you are in your life? I’ve taken an interesting tour of a variety of career fields overRead… Read more »

Australia – Principles for citizen : public servant engagement

Hi Folks I’m guessing that many Govloop members are not aware of the AGIMO Blog recently set up in Australia. What struck me was the absence of something really simple to assist people who do not ordinarily blog to engage. With that thought in mind I whipped up something for AGIMO and they have postedRead… Read more »

OGI Conference – Internal Customer Engagement

As many of you know, I was asked by the folks at GovLoop and 1105 to moderate a session at the OGI conference earlier this week. I hope that you guys appreciate it if I share the results of that session with the rest of the GovLoop community who wasn’t able to make it toRead… Read more »

Military Spouse Appreciation Day

ClearedJobs.Net has been a long-time presenter of Transition Assistance Program (TAP) classes around the Washington DC area. Today, ClearedJobs.Net will be presenting at a TAP class being held at Fort Meade, Maryland. In the spirit of Military Spouse Appreciation Day, an annual recognition taking place the Friday before Mother’s Day, today’s TAP attendees are beingRead… Read more »

Citizens ‘wish list’ and frustrations with local government websites (Part 2)

This user insight comes from the user research conducted for London Borough of Camden in the UK. You can visit the website redesign project development site here. Click here to go back to Part 1 View full post here. Wanted to order lid for bin online but there wasn’t any for lids – User’s binRead… Read more »

CHINA HOSTS A PARTY

The World Expo 2010 in Shanghai expects to draw 70 million visitors between May 1 and Oct. 31. This World’s Fair showcases the exhibits of 189 nations costing China an estimated at $58 billion, surpassing the $42 billion spent on the Beijing Olympics. Shanghai invested heavily in infrastructure and security preparing for this event. (USAToday.com,Read… Read more »

CONTINENTAL AND UNITED MERGE TO MAKE WORLD’S LARGEST AIRLINE

Two U.S. legacy carriers plan to merge forming the world’s largest airline. United will buy Continental through an all stock deal and combine the Continental logo and colors with the United name. It will begin servicing about 144 million passengers through coordinated international route networks. The new carrier will emerge with much needed cash reservesRead… Read more »