Inter Long Memo Download
Mirthe Sinkey
This handout will help you solve your memo-writing problems by discussing what a memo is, describing the parts of memos, and providing examples and explanations that will make your memos more effective.
The format of a memo follows the general guidelines of business writing. A memo is usually a page or two long, single spaced and left justified. Instead of using indentations to show new paragraphs, skip a line between sentences. Business materials should be concise and easy to read. Therefore it is beneficial to use headings and lists to help the reader pinpoint certain information.
Add Headings: You can help your reader understand your memo better by using headings for the summary and the discussion segments that follow it. Write headings that are short but clarify the content of the segment. For example, instead of using "Summary" for your heading, try "New Advertising Recommendations," which is much more specific. The major headings you choose are the ones that should be incorporated in your purpose-statement in the opening paragraph.
Use Lists: For easy reading, put important points or details into lists rather than paragraphs when possible. This will draw the readers' attention to the section and help the audience remember the information better. Using lists will help you be concise when writing a memo.
This is a suggested distribution of the material to make writing memos easier. Not all memos will be the same, and the structure can change as you see necessary. Different organizations may have different formatting procedures, so be flexible in adapting your writing skills.
With increased focus on data sharing, agencies must pay close attention to handling responsibly their own data and the data they share with or receive from other agencies. When information about individuals is involved, agencies must pay especially close attention to privacy interests and must incorporate measures to safeguard those interests. Prior to any data sharing, agencies must review and meet the Privacy Act requirements for computer matching, including developing a computer matching agreement and publishing notice of the proposed match in the Federal Register; OMB Guidance on Computer Matching (54 Fed. Reg. 25818, June 19, 1989); and OMB Circular A-130, Appendix I, "Federal Agency Responsibilities for Maintaining Records About Individuals." Agencies must also review and meet applicable requirements under other laws, including the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
The attached memorandum puts forth principles on protecting personal privacy when conducting inter-agency data sharing. Agencies themselves, as well as inter-agency work groups, such as the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Council, the Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council, the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency, the Procurement Executives Council (PEC), and the Human Resources Management Council (HRMC) should ensure that they adhere to the principles.
Surveillance issues are also criminal justice issues and immigration issues. As biometric technology (like facial recognition) and artificial intelligence technology become cheaper and more accessible, it is imperative for Congress and the Administration to understand the inherent risks and to put strong protections in place to limit or restrict their use. Additionally, many forms of surveillance technology are often used first at the border before expanding to the interior of the country. Such technologies present risks to the privacy, security, and civil liberties of U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons alike.
In addition to searches of digital devices, the past several years have seen a marked expansion of government proposals to collect biometrics, such as face prints, fingerprints, and DNA,[12] [13] both at the border and within the interior, from U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons.
It is now long past time for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reverse the course set in 2005 when the agency concluded that regulating fiber networks was unnecessary to promote competition, affordability, and universal access. Since then, fiber networks have disproportionately favored the upper half of the median income while ignoring both rural and low-income neighborhoods throughout the United States. Such a deployment of FTTH has resulted in not just a digital divide, but a speed and price chasm among broadband choices.
Unfortunately, the term deepfake is often used by the public and elected officials to describe any edited or altered video or image, despite the fact that individuals have been doctoring photos, splicing new video into historical footage, and altering news stories since long before machine learning existed.
Section 230 generally bars claims against Internet intermediaries based on federal civil law, and state criminal and civil law. However, the statute does not bar claims based on federal criminal law, intellectual property law, certain communications privacy laws, and (as recently amended) certain anti-sex trafficking laws.[44]
Weakening Section 230 protection would give states a green light to hold Internet intermediaries criminally and civilly responsible for CSAM on their services that they might not even know about. Such a massive expansion of legal exposure will incentivize online platforms to over-censor legitimate user content, to mitigate the risk that they will be held liable for the illegal actions of their users. There is no evidence that this would actually help children in the real world. But it would cause platforms to restrain vast quantities of user content, creating fewer and less diverse avenues for online speech.
U.S. antitrust laws and their enforcement have not kept pace with Internet industries. Courts have struggled to use a pricing-based consumer welfare standard in applying the Sherman and Clayton Acts to services that are free to the consumer. Rulings in antitrust cases are increasingly determined by esoteric economic theories rather than direct evidence of harm to the competitive process. Enforcement agencies, including the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, have been reticent about intervening in mergers and acquisitions, even when the resulting conglomerates pose serious threats to consumer choice and privacy, and of locking out independent innovation.
While necessary, antitrust reform alone is not sufficient to restart the cycle of competition in Internet markets. This Administration should also enact policies that promote interoperability and data portability among high-technology products and services from competing vendors. Interoperability and data portability allow consumers to leave a dominant firm without losing their data or ability to communicate, and they allow innovation from diverse sources to flourish.
Section 1201 should be repealed. It interferes with legitimate and critical activities and has no demonstrated effect on copyright infringement (which is already against the law). The primary impact of Section 1201 is to interfere with people who are trying to stay on the right side of the law as they exercise their rights to engage with copyrighted works.
Unfortunately, the U.S. Patent Office has for decades failed to apply legal patentability requirements correctly and consistently. As a result, there is a staggering number of overbroad, invalid, and ineligible patents. Many of the patents exploited by trolls are low quality patents that should never have been granted in the first place. Addressing patent quality at the Patent Office would go a long way to repairing systemic patent deficiencies.
When Congress passed the America Invents Act in 2011, it created new procedures for challenging patents before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) at the Patent Office. These procedures, particularly inter partes review (IPR) have become valuable tools for weeding out low quality patents.
[18] Sophia Cope & Saira Hussain, EFF to Court: Social Media Users Have Privacy and Free Speech Interests in Their Public Information, EFF Deeplinks Blog (June 30, 2020), -court-social-media-users-have-privacy-and-free-speech-interests-their-public.
[33] Danelle Dixon, Mozilla Releases Research Results: Zero Rating Is Not Serving as an On-Ramp to the Internet, Mozilla (July 31, 2017), -releases-research-results-zero-rating-not-serving-ramp-internet/ (last visited Oct. 20, 2020)
Operations Memoranda, also known as "ops memos," begin with the prefix "OPS," followed by the last two digits of the year, month, and ops memo number. Operations memoranda are written by OIM staff to inform county assistance office staff of new policies and updates to current policies. They may be applicable to one or multiple subject areas and outline procedures regarding one or multiple subject areas. They introduce and/or supplement OIM policy and may contain subject matter independent of OIM policy and procedures found in the Policy Handbooks and Manuals.
The Interoffice Memo encouraged a more thoughtful approach than does email simply because it took more time to do. It took more time to write, proof, print out, proof again and make sure you were truly communicating all you had intended and in the tone you desired. The Interoffice Memo made you think about your audience. Who needed to hear what you had to say and why? Often times rather than writing a memo, it was easier to have a face-to-face discussion. I suggest conflicts were resolved much more quickly this way than the back and forth emailing that goes so on all day long today.
I am not suggesting we quit using email. I am suggesting we take a more thoughtful approach to communication as a whole. Think of how many conflicts could be avoided. We say things via email , text and online that we would never say face-to-face. Typos would be avoided, and misunderstandings averted by simple face-to-face interaction and resolution.
The evolutionary value of forgetting and the spacing effect may be to optimize the use of limited memory storage for preserving the most relevant and useful engrams. Forgetting probably serves as a garbage collection mechanism that is used to remove the least relevant memory traces and to prevent storage overflow. On the other hand, the spacing effect might prevent conserving memories that are relevant only in a limited period of time. Without the spacing effect, a large number of repetitions in a very short period of time might increase the optimum inter-repetition interval to an excessive value, far beyond the period in which the learned association is important for the conditioned individual.
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