links for 2010-07-30

• Social Media, Permanent Records and eDiscovery | E-Discovery Resources & Information – DiscoveryResources.org
  Social media is emerging as a cottage industry for electronic evidence. It is now playfully referred to as an electronic “permanent record” in this era of Wikileaks.

  “It just makes for a beautiful exhibit, and there’s no longer any question about what was said,” says Cassandra Ferrannini, an employment law attorney with the Sacramento law firm Downey Brand. Conversations are displayed complete with date and timestamps. Some conversational snippets show up in context, others out of context.

  Labor and employment attorneys are aggressively using Facebook and other social media outlets. All areas of litigation and investigation are using social media to find and vet witnesses, for subpoena and impeachment reasons. There is even an iPhone App for background checks, which reports the usual demographic information and also includes social media activity.

  (tags: socialmedia ediscovery records)

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links for 2010-07-29

• Open or Managed Community Creation? – Everyday Enterprise 2.0
  “What are some of the business processes and governance issues related to creation of communities? Should organizations let users create their own communities without imposing governance and should there be some formality associated with it. Organizations do impose some kind of governance on creation of Team Sites. Should that model carry over to the creation of communities? There surely will be an impact on adoption if users need to get approval from some higher authority to create communities on their own. Is there a happy medium?”
  The topic tends to be polarizing and most people I meet are firmly in one camp or the other. (I used to be in one camp and then I switched – does that make me the Arlen Specter of Enterprise 2.0?) There are pros and cons to each philosophy and each one needs its own governance model.
  (tags: enterprise2.0 readlater)
• The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com
  DAVID DUNNING: Well, my specialty is decision-making. How well do people make the decisions they have to make in life? And I became very interested in judgments about the self, simply because, well, people tend to say things, whether it be in everyday life or in the lab, that just couldn’t possibly be true. And I became fascinated with that. Not just that people said these positive things about themselves, but they really, really believed them. Which led to my observation: if you’re incompetent, you can’t know you’re incompetent.
  (tags: psychology brain anosognosia education nytimes culture toread)

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links for 2010-07-28

• How to Create a Social Media Strategy for Your Business | Social Media Examiner
  According to the 2010 Social Media Marketing Report , 67% of marketers plan to increase their use of social media channels including blogs, Twitter, and Facebook.

  As more companies integrate social media into their marketing and communications plans, emphasis needs to be on creating a social media strategy. Without a strategy, you’ll undoubtedly be sucked into a social media time sink.

  (tags: socialmedia strategy howto media business)

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links for 2010-07-27

• Only 35 applications stand between you and your new small business – Government Bits
  World Bank publishes an annual index (here) that ranks countries by how easy it is to do business (Singapore was #1 in case you were wondering). The index incorporates factors like the number of procedures, costs, and time needed to comply across different aspects of the red-tape businesses must navigate (employing workers, filing taxes, getting construction permits, etc). Unfortunately, the burden of this red-tape falls more heavily on small businesses than large. According to the SBA (in this report) it costs 45 percent more per employee for small firms to comply than larger firms. Which means (unsurprisingly), red-tape hinders one crucial engine of most economies — small business growth.
  (tags: business government)
• D4A Winner Profile: Redesign of a .Gov Website – Government Bits
  A Good Company was selected as the winner of Sunlight Labs' Design For America contest in the Redesign of a .Gov Website category. The designers tackled the Internal Revenue Service site. Take a look at the current IRS.gov site and compare it to the redesigned site created by the two designers, Micah and Caroline. Pretty amazing transformation!
  (tags: government website redesign)
• Woman in technology | Nicole Sullivan
  This weekend the twitterverse erupted with opinions about Google sponsoring female students to attend JSConf. As a woman who is often the only-woman-in-the-room, I want people to know it isn’t always easy. I was a bit shocked by the blatant failure to empathize. Google is correcting for women being less likely to stand up and say “me, me, me!”, not for their technical skills or development prowess. Thinking that I got where I am because I’m a woman and got special treatment (rather than on my own merit) is a painful and insidious form of discrimination. You have to be thick skinned to make it in a field where this kind of thing happens frequently. YES. It happens frequently. What I’m trying to say is that women face a special challenge in tech because their male counterparts, when feeling jealous, will tend to pin female geek’s success on their gender. We face another problem, when we begin to wonder ourselves, and doubt our own abilities. This is the last refuge of the bigot indeed.
  (tags: tech women conference)
• soundflower – Project Hosting on Google Code
  Soundflower is a MacOS system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Soundflower is easy to use, it simply presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio with no other support needed.
  (tags: audio osx software recording streaming freeware)
• » Top Ten (10) Social Media Competencies for Librarians The Search Principle blog
  is list is an early draft of top competencies needed to become a social media-literate librarian. Murphy & Moulaison (2009) have written a fine document on this topic, and related the framework back to the ACRL information literacy competencies.
  (tags: libraries socialmedia web2.0)

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links for 2010-07-26

• Getting Down Under(neath) Gov 2.0 – www.morgenpeers.ca
  Sunday July 25th I tuned in to Gov 2.0 Radio hosted by Adriel Hampton, Steve Lunceford, and Steve Ressler. This week, their special guest was an Aussie, Senator Kate Lundy. Maybe you saw her talk in Washington at Gov 2.0 Expo? Her talk was titled, The Path to Open Government: The Pillars of Gov 2.0. She identifies three pillars. Democratizing data. Citizen-centric services. Participatory democracy.
  (tags: gov2.0 democracy gov2radio KateLundy Australia)
• UK Central Government Procurement Spend | data.gov.uk
  (tags: procurement spending opendata gov2.0)
• How Much Innovation Is Enough for Government?
  (tags: government2.0 innovation)
• David Barrie: Venturing not marketing: 10 Big Society projects
  (tags: change culture BigSociety)
• Offbeat Bride with Ariel Meadow Stallings
  No,I'm not getting married. It's for my son and future daughter-in-law whose wedding is at the end of August. Their wedding is both off beat and off the beaten track.
  (tags: Wedding bride)

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links for 2010-07-25

• Results of the Archives.gov Homepage Redesign Vote
  July 2010 The results are in and Design C received the most votes. Design C will be used to proceed, with minor modifications based on usability testing and user feedback.
  (tags: socialmedia redesign government websites)
• EduDemic » Introducing A New Social Network Just For Educators
  You may have noticed the more infrequent updating of EduDemic and EduDatum over the past week or two. That’s because our (small) crack squad of designers and developers have been hard at work creating something due to popular demand. It’s a new educational social network that’s free, easy to use like Facebook, and open to educators, education administrators, students, and other like-minded people who have a passion for learning.

  Look again, this isn't Facebook!
  Socially Learning

  The new social network is called Socially Learning and features a robust set of tools to help you meet teachers, tweachers (we love that word it turns out!), and other new friends. You can even join regional groups where people from your area are conversing, sharing information, and perhaps even planning a meet-up.

  (tags: education networking social network facebook socialmedia)
• Mrs Brin's Medicine Show deceived customers, says report • The Register
  Companies selling DNA kits have been deceiving customers with "fictitious" and "misleading" medical advice, an undercover sting operation by Congressional watchdog the GAO has discovered. One of the companies, 23andMe, was co-founded by Mrs Sergey Brin – Anne Wojowcki – and boasts veteran Silicon Valley socialite Esther Dyson as a director. All the companies investigated have been referred to the Food and Drugs Administration and the Federal Trade Commission for "appropriate action".

  The GAO investigation [summary – text] titled Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Tests: Misleading Test Results Are Further Complicated by Deceptive Marketing and Other Questionable Practices sent DNA samples to four companies, and followed up with undercover calls for medical advice.

  (tags: genetic dna 23andme)

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links for 2010-07-23

• Best SF Wi-Fi Coffee – Google Maps
  (tags: wireless sanfrancisco)
• Social media: why there's no point trying to escape – Telegraph Blogs
  (tags: socialmedia socialmediapolicy trends)
• Ca.Gov Detailed Analysis
  (tags: gov analytics)

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links for 2010-07-21

• Social Media Hub
  Social media is an integral part of Department of Defense operations. This site is designed to help the DoD community use social media and other internet-based capabilities to share responsibly and effectively, both in official and unofficial capacities.
  (tags: socialmedia dod government socialnetworking military facebook gov2.0)
• Complete Beginner’s Guide to Content Strategy | UX Booth
  (tags: content strategy)
• Beautiful Visualization – O'Reilly Media
  With contributions from more than two dozen experts, this book demonstrates why visualizations are beautiful not only for their aesthetic design, but also for elegant layers of detail that efficiently generate insight and new understanding. Think of the familiar map of the New York City subway system, or a diagram of the human brain. These older examples have been surpassed artists, designers, commentators, scientists, analysts, statisticians, and others who show how visualizations using today's digital capabilities can help us make sense of the world.
  (tags: inspiration infoviz datavisualization)

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links for 2010-07-20

• Section 508 Training Courses
  Includes a half-day class for preparing documents in Office and making conversions to PDF
  (tags: accessibility bestpractice ui Office pdf)
• BBC News – Do typefaces really matter?
  To most people, typefaces are pretty insignificant. Yet to their devotees, they are the most important feature of text, giving subliminal messages that can either entice or revolt readers, says Tom de Castella.
  (tags: bbc design font helvetica typography type)
• 10 government sites that effectively use new media for public engagement — Government Computer News
  "10 Web apps or Web-centric ideas that are great examples of how agencies can achieve open government and public engagement though new media." [all U.S. gov sites!!]
  (tags: government2.0 engage websites citizens)
• A List Apart: Articles: Web Fonts at the Crossing
  Starting in 1998 with Internet Explorer 4, and then from March 2008 through March of 2010, one by one, all of the “big five” desktop browsers—Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome—have rolled out roughly comparable implementations of @font-face font linking. With these, an indispensable piece of the web publishing puzzle—a piece missing since the web began—has fallen into place, and a true web-specific typography can begin to take shape.
  (tags: @font-face ala font-face fontface sifr typekit webdesign css3 readlater)

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links for 2010-07-19

• PiCloud | Cloud Computing. Simplified.
  Re-inventing the Cloud

  Leverage the power of the cloud with only 3 lines of code. Leave the load balancing, auto scaling, and server management to us.
  Start with 5 free compute hours.

  (tags: python cloud programming distributed scalability framework ec2 cloudcomputing)
• The Paciello Group Blog " Using WAI ARIA Landmark Roles
  The WAI ARIA specification defines a set of specialized “landmark” roles. These roles provide a method to programmatically identify commonly found sections of web page content in a consistent way. they can be used now in whatever flavor of (X)HTML you prefer. This allows assistive technologies to provide users with features which they can use to identify and navigate to sections of page content.

  Information about WAI – ARIA landmarks from WAI-ARIA Best Practices (Editor’s Draft 14 January 2009):
  Landmarks are a vast improvement over the rudimentary “skip to main content” technique employed prior to WAI-ARIA. If possible it is best to use these as landmarks.

  (tags: accessibility bestpractice html5 roles standards structure webdesign xhtml)
• Taking on IT challenges at California scale
  (tags: gov2.0 California Takai interview)
• Irish Government’s New Online News Service – A review | Talkin' bout a revolution
  (tags: gov2.0 news ireland)
• How To Use CSS3 Media Queries To Create a Mobile Version of Your Website – Smashing Magazine
  (tags: mobile css3 webdesign deconstruct)

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