The Stress Doc’s Stages of Grief: Discovering Purpose and Possibility in Trying Times

With all the uncertainty and stress in our economic-job climate (not to mention natural and man-made disasters), most of us can use a refresher on how to grapple with loss and change, how to have the courage to both persist and to let go, how to transform the danger into opportunity…how to grow stronger, wiserRead… Read more »

Energy Efficiency Technology from Pacific Northwest Nat’l Lab

PNNL has really been on our radar lately. We recently did a podcast interview with Graham Parker, Manager of the High Performance Windows Volume Purchase Program at PNNL, and now we’d like to share another one of their energy-saving technologies – the Grid Friendly Charger Controller. One of the challenges to the widespread adoption ofRead… Read more »

More on e-petitions

Excellent stuff from Fraser Henderson who has published a summary of some research done into the use of e-petition facilities in councils. I’ve embedded the presentation below: Panos & chris overview of e petitioning in english local authorities View more presentations from frazzy123 Fraser also links to some interesting evaluation of the europetition project, whichRead… Read more »

Federal Intranet Content Managers Lightning Rounds – Today 11 am PDT, 2 pm EST

On March 24, 2PM, Eastern, FICM will be hosting a presentation on a variety of intranet topics and voted upon by the greater FICM community. Check out all of the ideas, comments and votes on the FICM IdeaScale site (http://ficm.ideascale.com). Using a “lightning round” format, FICM Steering Committee and other group members will present forRead… Read more »

Recruitment 411: A Tailor-made Website

Every so often, Recruitment 411 will feature a guest blogger. Today’s guest blogger is Shawn, who manages the IRS Careers website. We designed the IRS Careers website so visitors can easily find information about IRS jobs. The site includes four focus areas: pre-college, current students & recent grads, and experienced professionals, as well as peopleRead… Read more »

Tech and recalls, Waters and ethics, transparency transparency and more political law links for Thursday

TECHNOLOGY AND THE GROWTH OF RECALLS. Blog post here. (I added the new and exciting Recall Elections Blog to my ever-growing list of links to your right.) IT’S MILLER TIME FOR PAC. Roll Call reports that Alaska’s Joe Miller will chair a PAC. WATERS AND ETHICS. The Hill reports. “Public interest groups on Wednesday askedRead… Read more »

Effect of FOI reforms on ICT systems of government

The last talk I attended at the ACS Canberra Conference was Dr. JamesPopple, Australian Freedom of Information Commissioner, talking about the FOIreforms of government and what this requires of the information systemsgovernment uses.The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner commenced 1November 2010. This integrates information management, privacy and FOIfunctions of government.The new Original post

CARIBE WAVE 11/ LANTEX 11 tsunami exercise

Tsunami exercise CARIBE WAVE 11/ LANTEX 11 is being conducted. A exercise Caribbean-Wide Tsunami Watch Message was issued at 1302Z 23 MAR 2011. This was relayed by the West Coast/Alaska and NWS Pacific Warning Centres. The messages received have spam warnings due to there being no sender’s name and all upper case in the bodyRead… Read more »