“The 2012 Best of the Web awards, a joint endeavor of Government Technology and the Center for Digital Government, were announced Thursday, Aug. 23. First place winners are the state of Alabama, Orange County, Fla., and Louisville, Ky. A complete list of winners is here.” Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Report – Improved Disaster Resilience is Imperative for U.S.
News release: “Increasing the nation’s resilience to natural and human-caused disasters will require complementary federal policies and locally driven actions that center on a national vision, says a new report from the National Academies – Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative. Improving resilience should be seen as a long-term process, but it can be coordinated around… Continue Reading
Harmonised Unemployment Rates – OECD – Updated July 2012
News release: “The OECD area unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.9% in May 2012 compared with the previous month. While the rate has hovered around this level since January 2011, it remains 2.1 percentage points higher than the level recorded four years earlier. In the euro area the unemployment rate rose further in May to… Continue Reading
The Moscow Declaration on Media and Information Literacy
“The changing media landscape and the rapid growth in information are affecting individuals and societies now more than ever. In order to succeed in this environment, and to resolve problems effectively in every facet of life, individuals, communities and nations should obtain a critical set of competencies to be able to seek, critically evaluate and… Continue Reading
GAO Report – Government Is Analyzing Alternatives for Contractor Identification Numbers
Government Is Analyzing Alternatives for Contractor Identification Numbers, GAO-12-715R, June 12, 2012 “In recent years, the governments reliance on DUNS numbers has increased significantly. There has been a dramatic increase in the number and types of entities that are required to have DUNS numbers to do business with the government. GSA also has expanded the… Continue Reading
Carbon Disclosure Project – Cities 2012 Global Report
CDP Cities 2012 Global Report – Including special report on C40 Cities “Annual climate change reporting is catching on among cities. CDP hosts disclosure from 73 cities and local governments this yearup from 48 last yearfrom all corners of the globe, including every continent except Antarctica. Participants range in size from the city of Tokyo,… Continue Reading
Inc. Magazine's Annual List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies — the Inc. 500|5000
“Americas fastest growers span 25 industries, all 50 states, and metro areas ranging from Boston to San Diego. New York City had the most honorees, with 350–three more than runner-up Washington, D.C. While nearly half the winners had revenues between $2 million and $10 million, more than 50 took in over $1 billion.” Continue Reading
CBO Baseline Economic Forecast August 2012
Baseline Economic Forecast August 2012. August 22, 2012: “This file supplements information in CBO’s August 2012 report An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022.” Related postings on financial system Continue Reading
Kaiser – Characteristics of Uninsured Low-Income Adults
“Effective January 2014, the Affordable Care Act establishes a new minimum Medicaid eligibility level of 138 percent of poverty for non-disabled adults who were not previously eligible for the program. As with current Medicaid, legal immigrants who have been in the country for five years or fewer are not eligible for this coverage. Nationally, 21.5… Continue Reading
The New Knowledge Services: Next Steps for Career Professionals
Specialist Librarians as Knowledge Strategists, by Guy St. Clair. Presented at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, Chicago IL USA July 16, 2012 in a Spotlight Session sponsored by SLAs Information Technology and Knowledge Management Divisions “Your job exists and you are in that job because you are employed by your parent organization to see… Continue Reading
2011 Risks and Process of Retirement Survey
Society of Actuaries’ new report shows increasing longevity as a major retirement planning risk: “Life spans are continuing to increase. In the past half-century, life expectancy for newborn American males improved by an average of almost two years each decade, from 66.6 years in 1960 to 75.7 years by 2010. For females, the average increase… Continue Reading
NBER Working Paper – The Value of Bosses
The Value of Bosses, Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw, Christopher T. Stanton. NBER Working Paper No. 18317. Issued in August 2012 “Do supervisors enhance productivity? Arguably, the most important relationship in the firm is between worker and supervisor. The supervisor may hire, fire, assign work, instruct, motivate and reward workers. Models of incentives and… Continue Reading
