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	Best practice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A best practice is formulated after the study of specific business or organizational case studies to determine the most broadly effective and efficient means of organizing a system or performing a function.
		Best practice may be a euphemism used in corporate management theory to avoid the negative image involved in "copying a competitor's business model".
		In computer security, best practices can be described as "extreme paranoia"; for the maximum amount of security possible, users should use keys that are as large as possible and ensure that the physical location of their computer is completely secure, e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Best_practices (686 words)

	MOST Clearing House Best Practices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The goal of a database on Best Practices is to present and promote creative, successful and sustainable solutions to social problems arising from poverty and social exclusion in order to build a bridge between empirical solutions, research and policy.
		Best Practices, in the MOST Database, are model projects or policies aimed at improving the quality of life of individuals or groups suffering from poverty or social exclusion.
		Calling these activities "Best Practices" is to suggest that they can and should be replicated, that ideas can and should be generated from them, and that they can and should contribute to policy development.
	www.unesco.org /most/bphome.htm (1306 words)

	Publication - Best Practices on Indigenous Knowledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		These best practices are an illustration of the use of indigenous knowledge in cost-effective and sustainable strategies which may help poor people in their daily struggle for survival.
		The aim of the database of best practices on indigenous knowledge and sustainable development is to encourage researchers and policymakers to incorporate indigenous knowledge into their project proposals, feasibility studies, implementation plans and project assessments, and to take indigenous knowledge and practices into account in all activities affecting local communities.
		Best practices on poverty and social exclusion have the following four characteristics: (i) they are innovative; (ii) they make a difference: (iii) they have a sustainable effect; (iv) they have the potential for replication.
	www.unesco.org /most/bpikpub.htm (3294 words)

	James Bach's Blog: No Best Practices
		There is nothing honorable you get from pretending that a practice is best that you can't also get from suggesting that a practice may be good in a specified context, and making a case for that.
		Best practice blather becomes a substitute for the more difficult, less glamorous, but ultimately more powerful idea of learning how to do your job.
		When you say that something is a "best practice", you may impress the uninitiated, or intimidate the inexperienced, but you just look foolish to people who believe in the possiblity of excellence.
	blackbox.cs.fit.edu /blog/james/archives/000187.html (2062 words)

	Information & Knowledge for Optimal Health (INFO) Project, Johns Hopkins University - Best Practices
		Lessons learned are usually best approaches and practices that have not been evaluated as rigorously as best practices, but that still offer ideas about what works best in a given situation.
		UNESCO describes best practices as having four common characteristics: they are innovative; they make a difference; they have a sustainable effect; and they have the potential to be replicated and to serve as a model for generating initiatives elsewhere [See Successful Projects Related to Poverty and Social Exclusion
		Advance Africa, which is funded by USAID to collect and share best practices, states: "A best practice is a specific action or set of actions exhibiting quantitative and qualitative evidence of success together with the ability to be replicated and the potential to be adapted and transferred.
	www.infoforhealth.org /practices.shtml (882 words)

	OASIS - Committees - OASIS UDDI Specifications TC
		This Best Practice is supplemented by the Using WSDL in a UDDI Registry, Version 2.0 Technical Note providing an expanded modeling practice that encompasses the flexibility of WSDL.
		A best practice may be written about a real implementation or application of UDDI to solve a business or technical problem, or it may be written to provide recommendations regarding interaction between UDDI and other technologies and/or standards where a widely adopted practice would benefit the Web services community.
		A best practice based on a future release of the UDDI specification may be created, but it will not be published until that version of the UDDI specification is released.
	www.oasis-open.org /committees/uddi-spec/doc/bps.htm (559 words)

	Best Practice Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Best Practice is the continuous process of learning, feedback, reflection, analysis and documentation of experience and lessons learned - what works or does not work, and why.
		To judge whether an approach, strategy or programme qualifies as a Best Practice, UNAIDS focuses on five criteria: effectiveness, ethical soundness, relevance, efficiency, and sustainability.
		The meetings are convened to set the general direction of the Best Practice Collection and its themes as an ongoing inter-agency activity.
	www.unaids.org /en/resources/publications/best+practice+collection.asp (571 words)

	Thinking and Making » Best Practices: Implementing javascript for rich internet applications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Adding best practices to an application’s technical requirements speeds development, decreases the application’s total cost of ownership, and makes application code more easily reusable -- which allows value created by the code to spread across an entire organization (instead of chaining value to a specific project).
		Best Practices for AJAX development It's great to see developers starting to think seriously about what kind of best practices to use in javascript development.
		Best Practices for AJAX development Which points you should consider on the development of AJAX applications, are described in this article.
	thinkingandmaking.com /entries/63 (1594 words)

	CGA \| Best Practices
		The purpose of the Common Ground Study was to identify and validate existing best practices performed in connection with preventing damage to underground facilities.
		The collected best practices are intended to be shared among stakeholders involved with and dependent upon the safe and reliable operation, maintenance, construction, and protection of underground facilities.
		Best Practices Committee; the primary purpose of this committee is to continue to focus on identifying those Best Practices that are appropriate for each stakeholder group, gauge current levels of implementation and use of those Best Practices, and encourage and promote increased implementation of the Best Practices.
	www.commongroundalliance.com /Template.cfm?Section=Best_Practices (333 words)

	Macromedia - Developer Center : Using ActionScript in Macromedia Flash MX 2004: Best Practices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The "Using Best Practices" chapter is a new addition to the Flash documentation, released as part of the 7.2 Ellipsis update.
		Best practices are particularly useful when you share FLA files with other Flash developers, or you want to create consistent and readable ActionScript.
		There are many other best practices that you might adopt when developing projects and writing ActionScript, and the Macromedia documentation team would love to hear about them.
	www.macromedia.com /devnet/mx/flash/articles/as_bestpractices.html (369 words)

	GAO: Selected GAO Best Practices Work
		Best Practices Reviews identify other public and private sector organizations that are widely recognized for major improvements in their performace in a specific area, such as financial management.
		The processes, practices, and systems identified in these leading organizations are referred to as best practices and provide a model for other organizations with similar functions and/or missions.
		Thus, an agency/organization seeking to adopt the best practice techniques of leading organizations should first understand the similarities and differences between itself and those organizations and then the causal links between the successes of the leading organizations and the best practice techniques.
	www.gao.gov /bestpractices (255 words)

	Best Practices
		To advance the state of the art, a national conference on Best Practices for Communicating Science and Technology to the Public was held March 6-8, in the NIST Green Auditorium.
		By exchanging best practices in a national forum, the conference steering committee hopes to energize the field and help foster improved networking among professionals that ultimately will increase the public's involvement in science and technology issues.
		In selecting best practices for poster presentations, the conference steering committee gave priority to programs that can be easily adapted by other organizations.
	www.nist.gov /public_affairs/bestpractices/practices.html (418 words)

	Foundation for Community Association Research: Best Practices Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The development of function-specific best practices in the community association industry has been a goal of CAI and the Foundation for Community Association Research for several years.
		The Foundation is currently developing best practices in select topic areas using a variety of sources, including, but not limited to, past winners of the National Community Association of the Year Award, recommendations from industry experts, various industry-related publications and, once developed, recommendations from those communities scoring highly on the Community Performance Index.
		The subject areas for the initial best practices were selected through a survey of CAI and Foundation for Community Association Research national leaders.
	www.cairf.org /research/bp.html (340 words)

	The Best Best Practices - Findings - CIO Magazine May 1,2004
		A handful of practices emerged as must-dos, common denominators for you to use as a foundation.
		And since respondents rated each practice in terms of its effectiveness and difficulty level, we've been able to draw conclusions about their relative return on investment.
		Use this chart to find out what the practices are, which are being used most and how each rates in terms of relative effectiveness and difficulty of implementation.
	www.cio.com /archive/050104/best.html (1420 words)

	Best Practices Guidelines: Whale Watch Operators Association Northwest
		These Best Practices Guidelines are to be applied by all members' vessels and those others who wish to manage their vessels responsibly while in the presence of marine wild life.
		Where a situation has not been addressed in these Best Practices Guidelines it is the intention that the prevailing regulation of the relevant jurisdiction be observed.
		All Best Practices Guidelines as they relate to resident killer whales are applicable and must be followed with the following modifications.
	www.nwwhalewatchers.org /guidelines.html (3236 words)

	Best Practices Database
		It demonstrates the practical ways in which public, private and civil society sectors are working together to improve governance, eradicate poverty, provide access to shelter, land and basic services, protect the environment and support economic development.
		UN-HABITAT and Dubai Municipality invite you to submit your initiatives for the 2006 Dubai International Award for Best Practices in Improving the Living Environment and for inclusion in the next edition of the database.
		The Best Practices database is a joint product of UN-HABITAT and The Together Foundation and has been made possible with the support of Dubai Municipality, the Best Practices Partners and the Government of UK.
	www.bestpractices.org (222 words)

	Best Practices Clearinghouse - AZK12 Center - Northern Arizona University
		Best Practices are research-based instructional or staff development practices that are most effective and equitable in generating improved student learning outcomes.
		Effective Instructional Practices: Includes references and links to research evaluating the effectiveness of various educational practices such as the Review of Educational Research (http://www.aera.net/pubs/rer).
		Best Practice Instructional Strategies: Includes instructional strategies that have been reviewed and recommended as best practices and a rubric for the evaluation of strategies.
	azk12.nau.edu /services/bestPractices (281 words)

	XML Schema best practices - HP Dev Resource Central
		The best practice is to append the word "Type" to all simple and complex type names to aid in human readability and comprehension.
		The best practice for encoding these two version numbers in an evolving XML schema is to encode the major version inside the target XML namespace of the XML schema and to encode the minor version in the schema version attribute.
		The best practices listed here are a consistent and reasonable subset of the many good practices in use in the industry.
	devresource.hp.com /drc/resources/xmlSchemaBestPractices.jsp (5587 words)

	Securing Public Web Servers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The practices recommended below are designed to help you mitigate the risks associated with these and several other known security problems.
		These practices are applicable to your organization if you intend to operate your own public Web site to conduct business with the Internet community and share information.
		Practices in this module are written for system and Web server administrators and their managers.
	www.cert.org /security-improvement/modules/m11.html (888 words)

	High-level Best Practices in SCM
		The best practices with regard to codelines are:
		Best practices in SCM, like best practices anywhere, always seem obvious once you've used them.
		So we have presented the practices that offer the greatest return and yet seem to be violated more often than not.
	www.perforce.com /perforce/bestpractices.html (3245 words)

	Web Page Development: Best Practices
		You have to avoid a few practices that, though not expressly forbidden, are strongly discouraged.
		If you want some practical examples and tips, the excellent accessify.com website is your best bet.
		The best way to deal with these incompatibilities is to make sure that the correct layout of your page doesn't depend on them.
	developer.apple.com /internet/bestwebdev.html (2747 words)

	A Brief Summary of the Best Practices in Teaching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Best Practices I have gathered here focus on those aspects of classroom teaching competence that are visible to oneself and to others and thus become useful for formative evaluation.
		Even though classrooms vary in content and goals, I believe this core set of Best Practices does apply to most adult education environments, in both professional/technical and academic areas, albeit in differing degrees.
		The best rewards are not contrived, foster personal reflection and independence, and actually work, that is, learners maintain new abilities or do better.
	northonline.sccd.ctc.edu /eceprog/bstprac.htm (5237 words)

	Serving the American Public: Best Practices in Performance Measurement
		In February 1997, NPR published the Benchmarking Study Report Best Practices in Customer-Driven Strategic Planning, which documents and details the in-depth processes and approaches of those best-in-class organizations that excel at incorporating their customers' needs and expectations into their strategic planning processes.
		Our partners first detailed their own processes through such practices as process mapping; they then compared these with those organizations, both public and private, considered to be the best.
		Through this organizational self-analysis and comparison against the best, our benchmarking partners have learned what needs to be changed as well as the processes, methodologies, approaches, and practices that can help them continuously improve.
	govinfo.library.unt.edu /npr/library/papers/benchmrk/nprbook.html (12693 words)

	Best Practices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		These Best Practice Guidelines are intended to clarify the application of the ACA Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice to the field of group work by defining Group Workers' responsibility and scope of practice involving those activities, strategies and interventions that are consistent and current with effective and appropriate professional ethical and community standards.
		Group Workers develop and are able to articulate a general conceptual framework to guide practice and a rationale for use of techniques that are to be used.
		Group Workers limit their practice to those areas for which they meet the training criteria established by the ASGW Training Standards.
	www.asgw.org /best.htm (1462 words)

	Best Practices, LLC: Best Practice Benchmarking, Business to Business Research and Consulting
		Best Practices, LLC is a research, consulting and publishing firm that is a world-leader in the field of best practice benchmarking.
		Best Practices, LLC is a thought leader in the field of best practice performance improvement.
		Best Practices, LLC conducts continuous benchmarking research on pressing business issues identified and driven by leading global corporations and government agencies.
	www.best-in-class.com (846 words)

	ALA \| Learning through the Library Best Practices Archive
		We're sorry, but the Learning through the Library Best Practices Archive has been removed from the AASL Web site. You may contact the AASL office at aasl@ala.org for additional information.
		The Learning through the Library Best Practices are brief snapshots of successful teaching-learning projects, units of study, and strategies in K-12 schools and school districts.
		Please note: The Learning through the Library Best Practices are reprinted here as they last appeared on the original Learning through the Library Web site, including Web addresses (if any) and the contact information for each project's leader.
	www.ala.org /ala/aasl/aaslissues/aaslinfolit/learningthrough.htm (252 words)

	International Contract Management Benchmarking Association
		ICMBA™ conducts benchmarking studies to identify practices that improve the overall operations of the members.
		To create a cooperative environment where full understanding of the performance and enablers of "best in class" contract management processes can be obtained and shared at reasonable cost.
		To use the efficiency of the association to obtain process performance data and related best practices from regarding contract management.
	www.icmba.com (579 words)

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