Download the plan here. FCC TO HOLD OPEN COMMISSION MEETING The Federal Communications Commission will hold an Open Meeting on the subjects listed below on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, which is scheduled to commence at 10:30 a.m. in Room TW-C305, at 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. With respect to …
The Alliance for Distance Education in California (ADEC) is pleased to announce Summit XXI: Online Education — Collaborating to Succeed. The annual distance learning summit will be held in partnership with CUE 2010 this year. ADEC’s Summit reflects the theme of collaboration in today’s challenging times and the corresponding booming …
Top Houston Hospital Selects MedConcierge to Offer Telemedicine to Corporations and Master Planned Communities September 8, 2009 (Sarasota, FL & Houston, TX) – St. Joseph Medical Center, the largest, Level 3 trauma hospital in downtown Houston, has selected MedConcierge to provide its advanced telemedicine solution to leading communities and corporations. Both …
From Telework Exchange Newsletter: Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine today announced that Virginia teleworkers saved approximately $113,000, avoided driving 140,000 miles, and removed 75.89 tons of pollutants from the air through participation in Telework Day on August 3, 2009. “I commend the individuals and organizations that took the Telework Day …
Throughout August and September, the FCC is holding a series of workshops to support the Commissioners as they draw up a national broadband plan. These sessions focused on broadband’s impact on the economy, especially in rural areas, and on skills training and job hunting. The Recovery Act calls for a …
Some GridKa School 2009 Abstracts available here. surname first name organisation institute / project Jurczyk Melchior Student HS Mannheim Castejón Francisco CIEMAT Fusion Nilsson Daniel Chalmers University of Technology Zurek Marian CERN ETICS Aktas Adil Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg Physikalisches Institut Abad Rodriguez Andres CERN Knese Karsten SCC, KIT …
Milt Capps reported on the Nashville Medical Trade Center and the proposed Nashville Entrepreneur Center here. Given today's technology I'd like to suggest that instead of building a PLACE it would be more strategic to offer a slate of SERVICES; specifically, those which would concentrate on the nexus of bioinformatics, …
Computer World/Network World – Former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly Fiorina may be launching a run for the U.S. Senate. Fiorina, a Republican, “filed for a tax identification number Tuesday and registered a campaign committee named ‘Carly for California,’” allowing her to raise money for a 2010 Senate run, according to …
<ed.note>Imagine what the Nashville workplace of 2009 would look like if we ACTUALLY VALUED INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION instead of just rhetorized about it at meetings we drive to. Of course, I should point out the Congress still requires its members to be physically present in order to vote vs. using …
<ed.note>It occurs to me I need a post to record the tools I cite again and again. I hope to expand this over time.</ed.note> Today's entries sponsored by the letters "B", "C" and "W": Wave (Preview) http://wave.google.com/ Web Conferencing http://www.DimDim.com http://www.gotomeeting.com http://www.webex.com Wikis MediaWiki with PurpleNumbers Examples http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/ (fedgov) http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/ …
UCP of Mid TN is seeking a full-time employee or contractor to help our agency meet our commitment to the population that we serve through a variety of aggressive fund-raising endeavors, two of which involve sports-related special events. While we are obviously looking for applicants who have the confidence and …
We invite submission of full papers, posters, workshops and demos and welcome contributions and participation from individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains that are engaged in the creation, use and management of digital data, especially those involved in the challenge of curating data for e-science and e-research. …
Tim O'Reilly makes the argument for Open Publishing @ TOC 2009 from Open Publishing Lab @ RIT on Vimeo.
Lake Oswego, OR – February 9, 2009. The Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Council has issued a Call for Papers for its 8th annual conference to be held from September 27-October 1, 2009 in Houston, TX. The 2009 FTTH Conference & Expo is the only gathering of its kind dedicated …
The online symposium is a FREE and informal 24 hour global event scheduled to run from 20:00 GMT Monday 23rd Feb to 20:00 GMT Tuesday 24th Feb 2009. (Check the World Clock for GMT times in your location) Participants can join the symposium at different times from around the world, …
I replied at the DNJ link saying (after seeing the Venture Nashville blog post): One thing we need to consider is making a Results-Only Work Environment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROWE ; http://www.culturerx.com ; http://caliandjody.com/blog ) the DEFAULT work condition in both schools and businesses. One should have to make a business case for …
<ed.note>Note: 1) China and India DO NOT emphasize junior high and high school athletics (because the chances that that will bring one out of poverty are amazingly low). 2) When a child shows an aptitude for a subject the parents hire a tutor (FWIW: South Korea sometimes hires from the …
over at http://vcafrica.ning.com/ Her post: This is all great, but the hurdles are still huge. I went to a Corporate Council on Africa Health Forum in November and was listening to a talk by a South African CEO of a pharmaceutical company. He said something astounding: he refuses ever to …
Proposals from the Communications Workers of America Should be Used as Baseline for Legislation (WASHINGTON) — Member companies of the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council have urged key leaders of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to ensure that proposals for expanding broadband coverage are included in the economic recovery package …
We at the PLML have *just* finished building a technology called CodeKindness, which resides at http://www.codekindness.org. It’s nonprofit, and designed to mobilize technology volunteers for nonprofit organizations by managing the distance volunteering experience. We’re already testing it (successful, so far!) and would love additional input into designing/shaping the technology. Please …