Designing for Democratic Dialogue

I will be speaking on “Designing for Democratic Dialogue: More then Mating iPads” at Meta 2011, Australian National University, 25 to 27 May, 2011 .Name: Tom WorthingtonTitle: Adjunct Senior LecturerOrganisation: Research School of Computer Science, The Australian National UniversityStream: Overcoming obstacles in the Execution process – challenges and solutionsYour session title: Original post

Leveraging IT to Maximize HR Resources

Human Resource Specialists are not specialists in Information Technology. Yet, today HR has a difficult time recruiting, engaging with employees, providing benefits, conducting training or capturing performance feedback without the intervention of technology. In fact, without technology, I can emphatically say that these functions are impossible. Why? Because heightened expectations for anywhere, anytime access toRead… Read more »

California law requires 33% of energy portfolio to be renewable by 2020

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 »

Managing the Shift from a ‘Push’ to a ‘Pull’ Information Economy

One of the two implications of the paradigm shift I wrote about was the movement from an information economy in which providers pushed out their content to one in which consumers pulled it into their feed. This movement started with the advent of RSS feeds and has hit a high point in link shortening andRead… Read more »

Security Assessment Article

State Tech Magazine published an article I wrote about our last information security assessment in this months edition. http://www.statetechmag.com/mag-home/mag-home/magazine-home.html

Who is a ‘quality’ website visitor?

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 »

Bommarito on Building a Better Legal Search Engine, Part 1: Searching the U.S. Code

Michael J. Bommarito II of Computational Legal Studies has posted Building a Better Legal Search Engine, Part 1: Searching the U.S. Code. Here is a summary: […] The first part in my blog series leading up to this talk will focus on indexing and searching the U.S. Code with structured, public domain data and openRead… Read more »

Veterans Administration Drops the Ball on Successful Project Helping Homeless Veterans

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 »