U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has designated the Northeast Corridor a federally-recognized high-speed rail corridor, clearing the way for these states and Amtrack to apply for federal high-speed rail grant funding. Specifically, this recognition will allow the Northeast Corridor to apply for Florida’s recently rejected $2.4 billion in high-speed rail funding. As CivSourceRead… Read more »
On Thursday last week, LinkedIn launched a brand new service called “LinkedIn today.” Liz Reaves Walker on the LI blog made the announcement. She wrote, Staying on top of industry news is something we think matters for any professional whose success depends on being well informed. With all the news websites, blogs, tweets and newslettersRead… Read more »
The Australian Prime Minister has a two-stage plan for carbon pricing, starting with a fixed price three to five years before transitioning to an emissions trading scheme (announced 24 February 2011). The federal opposition response was to call this a “… great big new tax to create a great big new slush fund …”.The governmentRead… Read more »
SLA’s Division of Government Information is sponsoring (or co-sponsoring) the following programs and events at SLA’s 2011 Annual Conference in Philadelphia this summer. This is a great slate of programs that includes three SPOTLIGHT programs and a NEED TO KNOW program, as well as an unconference session. For more detailed DGI program and event information,Read… Read more »
The Austrlaian Prime Minister has a two-stage plan for carbon pricing, starting with a fixed price three to five years before transitioning to an emissions trading scheme (announced 24 February 2011). The federal opposition responsee was to call this a “… great big new tax to create a great big new slush fund …”. TheRead… Read more »
Professor Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore talked today in the famous room N101 at the Australian National University in Canberra, on “Records Retention: Addressing Insider Threats to Data Integrity”. She contrasted the run on the banks during the 1930s stock market crash with the recent stability ofRead… Read more »
My first rough draft of a poster on “International Graduate Level Sustainable ICT Course” is avilable. This for the conference CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia 2011, in Sydney 3 to 6 April 2011. I would welcome comments. Sustainable ICT Courses are being introduced at the vocational training level and more rarely at undergraduate and graduate levels. This paperreportsRead… Read more »
Invite Ms. Etiquette to Your Organization Maximize Organizational NOW!!!!! Administrative Professionals Week In these uncertain times workplace civility can be nonexistent. To help you lay the ground work for a more civil work environment and reinforce principles that contribute to effective communication and relationships in the workplace, you’ll want to expose your staff to Ms.Read… Read more »
Health Net Inc., informed the Washington Attorney General’s Office on Monday that “approximately 39,877 Washington residents” may be affected by its latest data breach. Original post
Have you noticed images like the one to the right sprouting up at every turn? I have. That, my dear readers, is a QR code, and it’s one trendy, useful piece of technology. These 2-dimensional codes were developed by Denso Wave, a manufacturer of automatic data capture technology, and released to the market in 1994.Read… Read more »