[Yr7-10it] How Obama Will Use Web Technology

Sun Feb 1 10:09:24 EST 2009

K

Know how you feel.

We have had a half campus power outage while they ran a new supply and
connected a new building. "it'll only be off for 24hrs-we'll connect up
the servers etc with extensions cords etc" they said, well 24 hrs has
turned into 3 days. Servers were running at melting point. 37C in my
office. Not much better in the server room (it had a portable plug in AC
in it)

Picked the 5 hottest days in 100 years to take us off line. Yeah!

Tech is in today (Sunday) rebooting servers etc.

Kiddies back on Monday.

Cheers

Good luck to all for the new week.

Brendyn

Nagle College

From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Kent Beveridge
Sent: Saturday, 31 January 2009 6:24 PM
To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Yr7-10it] How Obama Will Use Web Technology

Hey Ro..

It probably crashed due to the cold...heck, ours up here is protesting
wildly in  this heat!  Our poor old server is just about melting and the
email server has been taken home by the techie just to keep it cool!
How's that for dedication!  Got to admit, he's been goin flat chat since
we got back, reckon he'll sink a few coldies this weekend...he's
certainly earned it this week!

Here's a chuckle for ya too..

The boss(principal)..owed up to accidentally switching off the air cons
to the servers...do ya reckon he copped a bit of ribbing from the staff
(we all had a bit of a laugh at his expense, he's just that sort of
bloke)...hehehe...

Did that put a grin on your dial, it did for us up here at our first
staff briefing.

Seeyall,

Kent.

Kent Beveridge,

I.C.T. co-ordinator

St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College

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Horsham Ph (03) 5382 3545

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From: yr7-10it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Tue 1/27/2009 9:20 PM
To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] How Obama Will Use Web Technology

The Whitehouse e-mail system crashed (again) .. we probably should not
blame the Obama administration for the woes he is having with their
Outlook exchange system (ala Edumail) but I reckon that it must be a
pretty frustrating technology hand over. As it was .. pencil and paper
managed to come to the rescue.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/01/26/white_house_e-mail_system
_goes.html

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/tech-glitch-hits-obama-whit
e-house/2009/01/27/1232818396845.html

Regards Roland

2009/1/25  <stephen at melbpc.org.au>:
> How Obama Will Use Web Technology
>
> Saturday, January 24, 2009; 2:54 AM
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
> dyn/content/article/2009/01/24/AR2009012400646.html>
>
>
> President Barack Obama was sworn into office this week as our nation's
> 44th president. Despite running into a few technical challenges in the
> first few days at the White House, the Obama Administration will
embrace
> technology in unprecedented ways.
>
> Led by forward thinking, web savvy technologists, President Obama's
new
> media team looks poised and ready to fulfill President Obama's vision
of
> open-source democracy.
>
> Coincident with Mr. Obama being sworn in, the Obama Administration's
new
> media team assumed control of www.WhiteHouse.gov at 12:01 PM EST on
> Tuesday. This is the official website of the sitting administration.
>
> The new media team has identified three top priorities of the new
> administration, communication, transparency and participation.
>
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/change_has_come_to_whitehouse-gov/>
>
> Let's examine how the new administration has been leveraging web
> technologies to meet these priorities.
>
> Communication:
>
> This administration's use of Google's YouTube during both the campaign
> and after winning the election leverages Internet video to reach a
> generation of Americans and global citizens who no longer tune in to
AM
> radio on a regular basis. President Obama has vowed to continue video
> recording his fireside chats and publishing them via YouTube and other
> video sites. With the transition of www.WhiteHouse.gov to the new
> administration, for the first time ever an official White House blog
came
> online. You can sign up for email updates from the president. Through
the
> blog, Mr. Obama is the first U.S. president to have an RSS feed!
>
>
> During the campaign President Obama relied heavily on Facebook,
Myspace
> and Twitter to build support, communicate with constituents and
develop a
> core audience. By far, Mr. Obama has more followers on Twitter than
> anyone else (168,000). His fan page on Facebook has more than 4
million
> fans. <http://twitter.com/BarackObama>
>
> Transparency:
>
> Mr. Obama promises to run the most open, honest and transparent
> administration to date. Through the Your Seat at The Table section on
the
> CHANGE.GOV transition site, the Obama transition team posted the
minutes
> of hundreds of private meetings with then President-Elect Obama.
>
> <http://change.gov/open_government/yourseatatthetable>
>
> Even all of the content on the www.CHANGE.GOV site, unless otherwise
> noted, is licensed to the public at large via a Creative Commons
> Attribution 3.0 License.
>
> The Obama-Biden Transition Team used blist to disclose the names of
all
> donors to the transition project. Two key points of note are that the
> disclosure was entirely voluntary and the tool they chose to use made
the
> data itself much more consumable by the mainstream public. Compared to
a
> plain HTML table, which is bulky, cumbersome and hard to work with, by
> publishing the data via a blist widget the data can easily be sorted,
> searched, filtered, downloaded, printed, emailed and even republished.
>
> Obama Administration has been conducting bold experiments in
interactive
> government. The Citizen's Briefing Book, powered by Salesforce.com,
has
> allowed citizens to suggest topics Mr. Obama should consider upon
taking
> office.
>
> Once a topic was submitted, other visitors to the Citizen's Briefing
Book
> could vote the topic up or down and comment on it. Voting, ranking and
> commenting are hallmark features of web social media applications.
> <http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/>
>
>
> The new Administration has brought forth a new era of honest, open,
> participatory and transparent government by creatively employing web-
> based software from innovative companies like Google, Facebook,
> Salesforce.com and blist. We're eager to see the use of these
> technologies extended to www.WhiteHouse.gov initially and from there
we'd
> love to see more government agencies quickly embrace web technologies
to
> promote communication, transparency and participation.
>
> --
> Cheers people
> Stephen Loosley
> Victoria, Australia
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