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Microsoft Releases New Index Gauging Online Behaviors

Jacqueline Beauchere (Redmond, WA) – In October, National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) in the U.S., Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group announced a new tool named the Microsoft Computing Safety Index (MSCI) to help gauge how consumers are meeting the challenges of today’s digital world. In association with this, Stephen Balkam, CEO of the  Family Online Safety ... Read more »
By the Numbers, Cyber Issues, Events, Laboratories and Research
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Why Should You ‘Like’ Us?

Angie Goff (Washington, DC) – How do you get people to Like you? (On Facebook, I mean.) When I get an opportunity to tap into the minds behind the most world’s most powerful social network, I’m gonna take it. At the headquarters of Gannett, I recently got the chance to attend a seminar and Q&A session with ... Read more »
Business, By the Numbers, Media, Social Software, Television
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Geo-intelligent Local Impact Stories

Tara Grumm (Redmond, WA) – Every day, hundreds of nonprofit organizations are hard at work improving the educational process, facilitating research on important topics, and empowering citizens with skills critical to finding work or starting a business.  This doesn’t happen in isolation. When a nonprofit truly connects with its surrounding community, it becomes more effective. This ... Read more »
Apps, By the Numbers, Corporate Citizenship, Geo, Nonprofits, Real Impact
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Interactive U.S. Public Transit Maps

Joanne Harrell (Bellevue, WA) — The Brookings Institution and Microsoft have teamed up to develop a new online data visualization tool that is designed to help cities and counties align public transportation resources to job creation goals. Built on Windows Azure and Bing Maps with Microsoft partner EastBanc Technologies, the application ... Read more »
Academia, Big Data, By the Numbers, Cloud Computing, Corporate Citizenship, Geo, Nonprofits, People, Real Impact
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R&D And The Magic Ampersand

Lewis Shepherd (Reston, VA) – According to Wikipedia, the lowly ampersand or “&” is a logogram representing the conjunction word “and” using ”a ligature of the letters in et,” which is of course the Latin word for “and.” In my line of work I most frequently encounter the ampersand in the common phrase “R&D” for research ... Read more »
Academia, Augmented Reality, By the Numbers, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Next at Microsoft, Quantum Computing, Real Impact, Shepherds Pi, Social Software
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Government Data As A Service

Phil West (Charlotte, NC) — Data.gov recently turned two years old. On the White House blog, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra wrote about how far Data.gov has come since starting on May 21, 2009. From 47 datasets on day one, it catapulted to 273,000 in the first year and 390,000 today. Impressively, Data.gov has inspired 16 ... Read more »
Big Data, By the Numbers, Cloud Computing, Government, Open Solutions
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The Voting Information Project

Kim Nelson (Chevy Chase, MD) – In the run-up to the 2008 elections, approximately 120 million people went online seeking information about the general election, and four out of five Americans visited a government website in search of information or assistance. While it’s no surprise that citizens are seeking information online, the Pew ... Read more »
Apps, Big Data, By the Numbers, Civic Hacking, Cloud Computing, People, Politics, Real Impact
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Does Your Public Sector “Digital IQ” Measure Anything Important?

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – If you work in the public or civic sectors, you now have now been assigned a Digital IQ whether you asked for it or not. There is no surer way to get people to talk about your research than to make a list ranking entities, categorize the list into easily-digestible names, and ... Read more »
Advocacy, By the Numbers, Cheeky Geeky, Defense, Government, Philanthropy, Politics
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