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April 22: Workshop on Law and Computation @ University of Houston

A Workshop on Law and Computation will be held 22 April 2011 at the University of Houston Law Center in Houston, Texas, USA. The workshop is hosted by the Law Center’s Program on Law and Computation. According to the workshop announcement: The workshop will provide opportunities to show ways in which advanced computation can aidRead… Read more »

Privatization Recommendations and Business Opportunities for North Carolina’s State IT

INPUT Senior Analyst Chris Cotner reports on North Carolina CIO Jerry Fralick’s recommendations for privatizing portions of the state’s IT infrastructure. North Carolina CIO Jerry Fralick has quickly followed up on his announcement at the INPUT Raleigh State and Local Executive Breakfast on 4/14/11; the state looks to be moving forward on INSA recommendations forRead… Read more »

You know you’re doing something wrong with your council website when….

You know you’re doing something wrong with your council website when you mostly say ‘YES’ to this list Are you a web manager or just someone who wishes to know how your local council website is performing? Or maybe just a curious observer of public services online? If you are, you should continue reading…. Good,Read… Read more »

Finding old insurance policies

According to the New York Times, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of life insurance policies go unclaimed each year. Why? Over time they get lost and the beneficiaries don’t know the money exists. The Office of the Insurance Commissioner put together some information on finding old policies. Check out the story on the department’sRead… Read more »

Goyal on Technology, Access to Justice, and MyLegalBriefcase

Monica Goyal, J.D., M.Sc., of MyLegalBriefcase gave a presentation on technology, access to justice, and MyLegalBriefcase at the “Startups in the Law” panel at NELIC 2011: The New and Emerging Legal Infrastructures Conference, held 15 April 2011 at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall, in Berkeley, California, USA. In her presentation,Read… Read more »

Paris, New York & What I’ve Been Doing For The Past Week

Things have been quiet here lately because I’ve been in Paris for the past 5 days, talking to some friends at faberNovel, a very cool company that works in what they call “innovation services”, and also creates co-working spaces. They have their hands in a whole lot of interesting projects and ideas, some of whichRead… Read more »

Breaking Down the Social Business Roadmap – Development

Reposted from our AIIM Community Blogs – http://www.aiim.org/community/blogs/community/Breaking-Down-the-Social-Business-Roadmap-Development In continuing of the series of our AIIM Social Business Roadmap blog posts, I will be looking into the topic of development within an organization as one of the 8 steps needed in order to be successful in this new digital age of business, social collaboration andRead… Read more »

Are the White House telephones rotary dial?

On the TV show “24,” Jack Bauer always seemed to have a cool way of communicating with the president and his superiors at the fictional Counter Terrorism Unit. The White House had the latest gadgets and everyone used them. Realistic? The White House isn’t that advanced, according to the president. Looks like another case ofRead… Read more »

I’m sorry, where did you say you were again?

I’ve just watched the web explode as someone finally put ‘Apple are collecting data on your whereabouts’ into terms a layman could understand. I could have added ‘without you knowing about it’ but you know what? I’m going to take a guess here and say if any of us had bothered to read the UserRead… Read more »