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News release: “With the U.S. economy still unsteady, most U.S. companies are finding it relatively easy to attract or retain workers, with one major exception-critical-skill employees. A new survey from global professional services company Towers Watson and WorldatWork, an international association of human resource professionals, shows that for the second consecutive year, the number of …
Use of Dashboards in Government, by Sukumar Ganapati, Florida International University, IBM Center for the Business of Government “Stephen Few defines a dashboard as a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives; consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance. …
Publisher Names in Bibliographic Data: An Experimental Authority File and a Prototype Application – This is a pre-print version of a paper published in Library Resources and Technical Services, 55,4. “The cataloging community has long acknowledged the value of investing in authority control; as bibliographic systems become more global, the need for authority control becomes …
Afghanistan 10 years on: Slow progress and failed promises, Amnesty International “Ten years after a US-led military invasion removed the Taleban from Afghanistan, the Afghan government and its international supporters have failed to keep many of the promises they made to the Afghan people, Amnesty International said…An Amnesty International scorecard on the state of human …
Conflict in Organizations, by Olivier Serrat, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Knowledge Solutions “Complex adaptive systems are the source of much intra-organizational conflict that will not be managed, let alone resolved. To foster learning, adaptation, and evolution in the workplace, organizations should capitalize on its functions and dysfunctions with mindfulness, improvisation, and reconfiguration.” (No. 108 | …
Six Provocations for Big Data, Danah Boyd and Kate Crawford “The era of Big Data has begun. Computer scientists, physicists, economists, mathematicians, political scientists, bio-informaticists, sociologists, and many others are clamoring for access to the massive quantities of information produced by and about people, things, and their interactions. Diverse groups argue about the potential benefits …
Urban Informatics Research and Insights for Libraries, Cultural Industries and Innovation Systems, by Marcus Foth, September 2011 “Over less than a decade, we have witnessed a seismic shift in the way knowledge is produced and exchanged. This is opening up new opportunities for civic and community engagement, entrepreneurial behaviour, sustainability initiatives and creative practices. It …
Account Deactivation and Content Removal: Guiding Principles and Practices for Companies and Users, Erica Newland, Caroline Nolan, Cynthia Wong, and Jillian York. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and. The Center for Democracy & Technology, September 2011 “This report explores these dilemmas, and recommends principles, strategies, and tools that both user-generated content (UGC) platforms …
Daniel Soar: “This spring, the billionaire Eric Schmidt announced that there were only four really significant technology companies: Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google, the company he had until recently been running. People believed him. What distinguished his new gang of four from the generation it had superseded companies like Intel, Microsoft, Dell and Cisco, …
Fighting Poverty in a Bad Economy, Americans Move in with Relatives, By Rakesh Kochhar and DVera Cohn. October 3, 2011 “Without public debate or fanfare, large numbers of Americans enacted their own anti-poverty program in the depths of the Great Recession: They moved in with relatives. This helped fuel the largest increase in the number …
Rhett Butler, A Revolutionary Technology is Unlocking Secrets of the Forest Conceived by Greg Asner, a scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, the new system known as AToMS, or the Airborne Taxonomic Mapping System has the potential to transform how tropical forest research is conducted. By combining several breakthrough technologies, Asner and …
Federal Reserve Bank of New York – Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution. Request for Proposal (Event-6994) “Social media platforms are changing the way organizations are communicating to the public. Conversations are happening all the time and everywhere. There is need for the Communications Group to be timely and proactively aware of the reactions …
