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“Making the Most of Social Media is written for local governmentscities, counties, townships and their affiliatesthat are beginning to experiment with social media and would like to get more out of them. Its emphasis is on the use of specific applications, such as Facebook and Twitter, by government managers and communications directors. More than two …
Danny Werfel, Controller, March 18, 2010 – Update on the Financial Systems Integration Office “Improving the cost, quality, and performance of financial management operations and systems is one of the Administrations management priorities. Over the past several years, efforts to achieve these objectives have been conducted under the Financial Management Line of Business (FMLoB) and …
Return of the Multi-Generational Family Household, March 18, 2010 – Pew Research Centers Social & Demographic Trends Project. “The multi-generational American family household is staging a comeback driven in part by the job losses and home foreclosures of recent years, but more so by demographic changes that have been gathering steam for decades. As …
News release: “Kraft Foods Inc. announced today plans to reduce sodium by an average of 10 percent across its North American portfolio over the next two years. This amounts to the elimination of more than 10 million pounds — or more than 750 million teaspoons — of salt from some of North America’s most popular …
“The Arctic Species Trend Index 2010 (ASTI) was commissioned and coordinated by the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP). The CBMP is working with over 60 organiations to expand, integrate and enhance existing arctic biodiversity research and monitoring efforts to facilitate more rapid detection, communication and response to significant trends and pressures.” “The contribution of Arctic …
News release: “Parents of young boys may want to encourage moderation when it comes to their kids’ video game habits. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, owning a video-game system may hamper academic development in some children…Further analysis revealed that the time spent playing video games …
Washington Post Political Blog: “On Wednesday [March 17, 2010], C-SPAN will launch a searchable video library that includes all of its programming dating to 1987. Which means that, if you were so inclined, you could watch every one of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s floor speeches or relive Barack Obama’s speech at the 2007 Iowa …
Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism: The State of the News Media 2010 is the seventh edition of our annual report on the health and status of American journalism. Our goals are to take stock of the revolution occurring in how Americans get information and provide a resource for citizens, journalists and researchers to make …
New York Times: “Electronically produced drafts, correspondence and editorial comments, sweated over by contemporary poets, novelists and nonfiction authors, are ultimately just a series of digits 0s and 1s written on floppy disks, CDs and hard drives, all of which degrade much faster than old-fashioned acid-free paper. Even if those storage media do …
Newswise: “With the digitization process now complete, the 31 volumes of Ulysses S. Grant’s collected papers now are available online through the Mississippi State University Libraries. The volumes contain thousands of letters written by and to the 18th U.S. president and former Civil War general and Union Army hero. Also including military documents, other materials …
“Increased responsibilities and potentially reduced resources make it difficult for financial executives to find time to fully understand the state of the organizations financial reporting risk. But CFOs understand that, in the end, responsibility for the quality and timeliness of the organizations financial reporting process belongs to them. To help, Deloitte has published a new …
Growing Diversity Among Americas Children and Youth: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions, Kenneth Johnson, UNH professor of sociology and senior demographer at the UNH Carsey Institute, and Daniel Lichter, Ferris Family Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. “Americas rapidly changing racial and ethnic composition has been fueled by extraordinary growth …
