There’s been a lot of talk recently about Facebookand their privacy issues, as well as their perceived attempts to ‘take over the web’ through their ‘like’ buttons and other integrations with their platform. As a result, quite a few commentators and influential social media types have announced that they are leaving Facebook, deleting their accountsRead… Read more »
Kate Wilko of the Stanford University Law Library has posted A Draft 50 State Survey of Copyright Claims in State Codes and Court Opinions on Legal Research Plus. The survey — which was conducted in conjunction with the Law.gov legal open government data project — covers U.S. state statutory codes and court decisions.
Originally published under the title “Workplace Flexibility as the New Normal” as part of “The FCW Challenge” by Anne Weissberg, William D Eggers, May 14, 2010 As William Gibson wrote in Neuromancer, “the future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” If you think that the federal government will never go to aRead… Read more »
Not really a blog, but this is my latest commentary for www.usafe.af.mil and www.af.mil. Most of it probably holds true for any organization’s employees when it comes to using social networking from the office. Social networking sites are open to Air Force servicemembers and employees in the workplace. This change to policy has raised manyRead… Read more »
Article from following link http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=126003690&gid=27818&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fc%2Emoreover%2Ecom%2Fclick%2Fhere%2Epl%3Fz2743800238%26z%3D950243899&urlhash=fEmr&trk=news_discuss T-DRIVEN INNOVATION A Billion Brains are Better Than One Interview with Thomas W. Malone March 18, 2010 MIT Sloan’s Thomas W. Malone, author of The Future of Work, on how the smartest companies will use emerging technology to tap the power of collective intelligence PDF BUY ARTICLE & PERMISSIONS “MostRead… Read more »
I was able to attend from the comfort of my home office. There were many panel discussions but these bullet points are from the discussions on vGov and Virtual World studies to stay in line with the initial discussion about Second Life. I would encourage others to go to their website and check out theRead… Read more »
(Written by Caron Calrson of FierceCIO.com) The State of Utah recently reduced its server count from 1800 to 400, and its IT department from 1000 to 800 employees through a comprehensive consolidation initiative. Operations costs were cut by $4 million, and the employee reductions were achieved entirely through managed attrition. In an interview with FierceCIO,Read… Read more »
I reached out to Senator Joyce after he joined my community on Twitter. Senator Joyce is serving his 7th term as a Senator from Massachusetts, representing the Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth district, which includes Avon, Braintree, Canton, East Bridgewater, Easton, Milton, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton, and West Bridgewater. The Senator agreed to an email-based interview, whichRead… Read more »
I’m going to be submitting this as an op-ed later today. Any comments would be gratefully appreciated! The Off-shore Oil Crisis Demands a Switch to Win-Win Regulation 3.0 Strategy by W. David Stephenson The Obama Administration’s proposal to make the off-shore oil drilling safety program independent of the Minerals Management Service doesn’t address a moreRead… Read more »
Social media only increases fragmentation in society which the commerce will happily exploit. Rather what is needed is social bonding and returning to the culture of the past that will help nourish roots and in bonding much joy and happiness will be experienced.