http://www.govtech.com/social/4-Tips-for-Successfully-Engaging-the-Public-Across-Multiple-Social-Media-Platforms.html

Roanoke, Va.’s communication and media coordinator shares his strategies to make the most out of social media efforts.

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2016/04/21/illustrating-global-wealth-inequality/

Wealth inequality in the U.S. is extreme, but global wealth inequality, illustrates a video by The Rules, is even more stunning.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/18/what-the-world-thinks-about-climate-change-in-7-charts/

On April 22, leaders and representatives from more than 150 countries will gather at the United Nations to sign the global climate change agreement reached in Paris in December. Pew Research Center’s spring 2015 survey found that people around the world are concerned about climate change and want their governments to take action.

http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/what-miles-davis-taught-herbie-hancock-about-mistakes-and-improvising.html

In this very short video based around an interview with pianist Herbie Hancock, the master improvisor Miles Davis honored Hancock’s mistake as a hidden intention by playing along with it. It’s both a surprising look into the arcane world of jazz improvisation and a revealing anecdote of Davis, usually known as a difficult collaborator.

“It taught me a very big lesson not only about music,” says Hancock, “but about life.”

http://www.epi.org/blog/universities-overtime-rule/

This is a consequential move, which will improve the lives of many working people in a number of ways. Millions of employees who work long hours will get paid overtime for the first time. Millions of other workers who have been working long hours, at a cost to their health and their families, will have their hours reduced to 40 hours a week. Millions more will get a raise above the threshold, because their employer can continue to avoid paying overtime. And hundreds of thousands of people will get jobs because employers will reduce the hours of some employees to avoid paying overtime and hire additional people to do the work at straight time wages.

http://www.businessinsider.com/pocket-point-pays-to-not-use-phone-2016-4

While in class, everyone was looking at their phones, texting, and doing whatever, with "no one paying attention to the teachers" as Gardner recalls.

The more they talked about it, the more annoyed they were. If technology could cause that kind a phone addiction, then it could also solve it, too, they thought.

So they built an app called Pocket Points that rewards students for not using their phones while in class.

Using "geo-fencing," (a GPS "fence" around the campus), the app can sense when a student is on campus and automatically lock the phone down. Students earn points while they are on campus with the app on/phone locked. When the student leaves campus, the phone unlocks and texting and Snapchatting can commence.

Points can then be cashed in for rewards at local businesses, like pizza, food, coffee, yogurt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/science/in-science-its-never-just-a-theory.html

Misconception: It’s just a theory.

Actually: Theories are neither hunches nor guesses. They are the crown jewels of science.

http://www.govexec.com/oversight/2016/04/congress-worse-track-record-following-waste-cutting-recs/127467/

Federal agencies are making progress on addressing the duplication and overlap identified by independent auditors, but more than half of the total recommendations made since 2011 have not been fully addressed.

Picard Tips (@PicardTips) tweeted at 2:40 PM on Sun, Apr 10, 2016:

Picard strategy tip: Don’t assume your opponent will behave rationally. Plan for their emotional response.

(https://twitter.com/PicardTips/status/719233490483437568?s=03)

http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2016/04/opm-seeking-social-media-tracking-background-checks/127380/

The Office of Personnel Management is preparing for a pilot program to automatically track public social media postings of people applying for security clearances.