Development by Davis: “Find civic engagement tools and their stories at Engagement Commons beta” plus 3 more

Find civic engagement tools and their stories at Engagement Commons beta
AMD Embedded G-Series Platform Now Supports Windows Embedded Compact 7 Real-time Operating System
Removed spaces in groups
The Tube: IDEO builds a collaboration system that inspires through passion

Find civic engagement tools and their stories at Engagement Commons beta

Posted: 07 May 2012 06:00 AM PDT

With civic engagement becoming an increasingly critical component of successful governance in the 21st century, cities around the world are seeking to leverage technology as a tool for citizen participation, but civic leaders face real challenges finding, evaluating, and deploying the right tools in the absence of good information.That's why earlier this year, we announced our plans to build Engagement Commons: a comprehensive and dynamic catalog of the tools available for civic engagement and the real-world stories of their deployments.

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AMD Embedded G-Series Platform Now Supports Windows Embedded Compact 7 Real-time Operating System

Posted: 07 May 2012 12:00 AM PDT

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that its AMD Embedded G-Series platform now supports Windows Embedded Compact 7, the next generation of the Windows Embedded CE real-time operating system. Windows Embedded Compact 7, paired with AMD Embedded G-Series Accelerated Processing Units (APU) is optimized to deliver feature-rich applications on small, sp...

Removed spaces in groups

Posted: 07 May 2012 11:22 AM PDT

Hello,

I have some groups in Active Directory which contains spaces.
I want those spaces removed but not all of them to make it more
complicated :-)

for example :

Group : DL - Software - All Users

I want to remove the spaces DL - Software - All but not the one
between All & Users

So it should look like DL-Software-All Users

The Tube: IDEO builds a collaboration system that inspires through passion

Posted: 07 May 2012 04:00 AM PDT

To be successful and truly collaborative, knowledge-sharing systems require intuitive tools that connect people, reward participation, and align well with existing work and communication patterns. After IDEO's two-year internal development effort to create and implement "the Tube," their enterprise-wide intranet system, we gained new understanding and experience in balancing technology possibilities with behavior realities. The unique success of the Tube comes from the insight that effective knowledge sharing is a social activity that is enabled by technology, rather than a technological solution bolted onto an existing work culture. Now IDEO's Knowledge Sharing Team shares a set of design principles for building online collaboration systems that really work.