Do you want to know how you can change your office culture in a single day? Blow it up That’s right, blow it up. Have everyone come in jeans and t-shirts and break out the power tools and tear the walls down. Why you never would Your gut reaction tells you that you can’t. YouRead… Read more »
Last year, I started a group exclusively for local govvies on Huddle called LocalGovWebStars with some help from a good local gov buddy of mine, Ken Eastwood (Assistant Director at Barnsley MBC and founder of publicsectornomads.com) to talk about website redesign projects in local gov. The group resulted in some very interesting discussions and tips.Read… Read more »
The United Nations telecommunications agency is offering $10,000 for the most innovative mobile phone application about climate change. Original post
Entrepreneur Magazine recently published a list of the best MBA programs for green business. Based on their assessment, some programs are clearly more substantive than others, but all seem to have a reasonable amount to offer the potential student interested in green business. Sixteen schools made the list, which includes some names you would expectRead… Read more »
The Austrlaian Computer Society is running an ACS Business Skills On-Line Pilot Program. I was selected as one of the initial students. The pilot is from mid April to the end of July 2011 and I have to do at least 3 courses (there are 80 to choose from). These are short one to fourRead… Read more »
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a new law that requires the state to use 33% renewable energy by the end of 2020. Calling for a substantial shift away from coal and natural gas, the Governor supports creating jobs through the use of new technology and renewable energy sources. Prior to this bill, the stateRead… Read more »
Steph Gray @lesteph recently highlighted an article by Gerry McGovern on the The accidental website visitor. Gerry talks about how a website significantly improved its satisfaction levels once it was attracting the right, but smaller audience. This made me think about who is the ‘right kind’ of website visitor? Are they one of us? DoRead… Read more »
I am an addiction counselor at the Lincoln Nebraska Veterans Hospital. My supervisor received an Innovations Proposal Grant for a therapeutic Living House to supplement our treatment program at the hospital. It was a huge success! Guess what. After helping over 75 veterans, with an over the top success rate, it was closed down. ThisRead… Read more »
Here are a few things I learned about running audio on my first all-DSLR shoot. Run dual system audio and sync it in post. I am so glad we did this. Even my old Zoom H4 picked up amazingly clean audio. An XLR input beats a mini-jack any day of the week. PluralEyes is yourRead… Read more »
Professor Rachel K. Gibson, Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester, will talk on “What is ‘E-Participation’?”, 4pm, 19 April 2011, at the Australian National University in Canberra. Seminar – Professor Rachel K. Gibson – Tuesday 19 April at 4pm Professor Rachel K. Gibson, Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester Original post