Category «Knowledge Management»

The Best Places to Work in the Federal Government

The 2021 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government® employee engagement and satisfaction “score is 64.5 out of 100, representing a 4.5-point decrease from 2020 in how our nation’s civil servants view their agencies and jobs.  This significant downturn in job and organizational engagement and satisfaction came as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to disrupt …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Some Surprising Good News: Bookstores Are Booming and Becoming More Diverse

The New York Times – “More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people….Two years ago, the future of independent book selling looked bleak. As the coronavirus forced retailers to shut down, hundreds of small booksellers around the …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

A copyright lawsuit threatens to kill free access to Internet Archive’s library of books

Popular Science: “Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library and a massive repository of online artifacts, has been collecting mementos of the ever-expanding World Wide Web for over two decades, allowing users to revisit sites that have since been changed or deleted. But like the web, it too has evolved since its genesis, and in the …

Subjects: Copyright, Courts, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Sentence Rephraser

“Using machine learning, Ginger’s tools keep up to date with the way language usage evolves. Works across all websites, tools and devices. Get suggestions from Ginger while posting a Tweet, writing on Gmail, drafting a Word document, and anywhere you write..Ginger goes beyond spelling and grammar. It takes into account full sentences to suggest context-based …

Subjects: AI, E-Mail, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Social Media

How are cities planning for heat? Analysis of United States municipal plans

V Kelly Turner and Emma M French and John Dialesandro and Ariane Middel and David M Hondula and George Ban Weiss and Hana Abdellati, How are cities planning for heat? Analysis of United States municipal plans, Vol 17, No 6 Environmental Research Letters,2022. UCLA Newsroom: “…To assess heat planning, the researchers — from UCLA, Arizona …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Education, Environmental Law, Knowledge Management

How browser cookies make people more cautious online

Fast Company: “Website cookies are online surveillance tools, and the commercial and government entities that use them would prefer people not read those notifications too closely. People who do read the notifications carefully will find that they have the option to say no to some or all cookies. The problem is, without careful attention those notifications become …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Government, E-Records, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Research finds people lie just a little bit day-to-day — except for a few prolific liars

“You know poker players lie, but how about family, friends or acquaintances? Are they lying? A new study co-authored by a UW-La Crosse faculty member may provide some reassurance. Most communication is honest and most lies are told by a few prolific liars, says UWL Professor Tony Docan-Morgan, who recently co-authored the publication,  “Unpacking variation in …

Subjects: Knowledge Management