Resources of the Week: Election 2008 and Voting
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor
We are apolitical here at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker. But we do believe that EVERYBODY needs to get out and vote...this year, more than ever. In that spirit, we are offering up a small collection of resources that provide voting information and information about the electoral process in general. Enjoy.
Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF) helps overseas and military voters participate in federal elections. We do this by providing public access to innovative voter registration tools and services. If you are an overseas or military voter, OVF’s goal is to make it easy for you to get your ballot and vote.
Overseas American citizens, State Department employees, and active duty uniformed service members and their accompanying families within and outside of the United States vote under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) and can all register to vote from abroad using OVF's services.
OVF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan public charity incorporated in Delaware.
You can actually register to vote here if you are a U.S. Citizen residing or traveling overseas, a member of the active duty uniformed services, or a spouse or dependent. There's also a Election Official Directory, where you can use dropdown menus to locate election office addresses, telephone, fax, email and websites.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
