Article posted on nextgov.com by Brian Kalish regarding OSC’s release of a nine page document addressing employees’ and agencies’ use of social media. Be careful mixing politics and Facebook, counsel office says By Brian Kalish 08/25/2010 Federal employees could become a “friend,” a “fan” or even “like” a Facebook page a political party or candidateRead… Read more »
‘The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.’ Chris Bennett: QR Codes for Crisis ResponseDavid Eaves: Creating effective open government portalsJohn Hermann: How Blind People See the InternetGautham Nagesh: O’Reilly – Government needs to close the feedback loopAllan Holmes: What’re Cyber Workers’ Salaries (call for survey responses)Richard Gray: Intel Developing ComputersRead… Read more »
KPMG’s Infrastructure Advisory Team has published its “Top 100″ compiling infrastructure projects from around the globe. International channel pros and marketing experts ought to care a lot about the quality of roads, canals, bridges and power transmission systems. It’s inspiration and creativity, on a mammoth scale. Like Hanson Marketing, infrastructure Links Products to Markets Worldwide.Read… Read more »
Here’s the article from Politico which crowns the 73 year old senator: John McCain, Twitter genius By MEREDITH SHINER | John McCain may be in the political battle of his life to save his Senate seat in Arizona — but he’s a Twitter genius, according to a new report released Thursday. In a joint studyRead… Read more »
Heather Krasna is the author of Jobs That Matter: Find a Stable, Fulfilling Career in Public Service, and the Director of Career Services at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. Job interview questions can be boiled down into three big categories: 1. Can you do the job? That is, doRead… Read more »
How green is your phone? And do you care? The article in the Guardian swats at Apple, who refused to participate in the UK program analyzing popular mobile phones. http://gu.com/p/2j7qn Fast Company has a somewhat grayer take on this information, and challenges the way the phones were analyzed. Meanwhile, I’m hoping that some genius engineerRead… Read more »
Originally posted at eaves.ca————————– In the past few years a number of governments have launched open data portals. These sites, like www.data.gov or data.vancouver.ca share data – in machine readable formats (e.g. that you can play with on your computer) that government agencies collect. Increasingly, people approach me and ask: what makes for a goodRead… Read more »
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What is that goofy-looking barcode to your right, you ask? It’s called a QR (Quick Response) Code and it can store over 4,000 alphanumeric characters in this two dimensional black and white image. Think of it as a cryptogram or cipher readable by mobile devices. The one displayed here for instance actually reads, “GovLoop isRead… Read more »
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