July 2011
44 posts
Pop Chart Lab brings order to a swirling chaos,... →
Pop Chart Lab was founded in August 2010 by a book editor and a graphic designer who joined forces for one reason: to bring order to a swirling chaos, that is, to render the world as charts. Since the launch, Pop Chart Lab has tackled everything from beer to culinary devices to the story of a boy’s migration to a town called Bel Air.
Pop Chart Lab has been featured on “The Today...
The Peace & Justice Academy uses Kiva as a... →
This week, Kiva is feeling inspired by a story from one of our lending teams! Kiva’s Lending Team, The Peace & Justice Academy has been lending through Kiva since 2009 and to this date they have funded 60 loans totaling $1,475! Randy Christopher and Kimberly Medendorp started the school in 2009, and shortly began implementing Kiva in the classroom. In the beginning, Randy asked each of the...
The Society for Visual Anthropology →
The Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) is a section of the American Anthropological Association. We promote the study of visual representation and media. Both research methods and teaching strategies fall within the scope of the society. SVA members are involved in all aspects of production, dissemination, and analysis of visual forms. Works in film, video, photography, and computer-based...
10 useless résumé words – and 10 eye-catching ones... →
“Generic hyperbole belongs on cereal boxes, not on résumés,” says Duncan Mathison, a career consultant and co-author of “Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough.” “If it does not pass the ‘So what, anybody can make that claim’ test, leave it off.”
Instead of being another candidate professing to be a...
The Seed Cathedral →
A house of worship for biodiversity, the British pavilion for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai is constructed of 60,000 light-funneling fiber-optic rods, each with one or more seeds implanted at its tip. British designer Thomas Heatherwick worked with the Kew Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank project, whose mission is to collect seeds from 25% of the world’s plant species by 2020. The...
The 50 Best Inventions of 2010 →
Flying cars! Jet packs! Lasers that zap malaria-carrying mosquitoes! Here are the year’s biggest (and coolest) breakthroughs in science, technology and the arts
iPad
Flipboard
Looxcie
Kickstarter
Square
Sony Alpha A55 Camera
Amtrak’s Beef-Powered Train
Google’s Driverless Car
Martin Jetpack……
Click link for more info & details!
25 Rules for a Perfect Brainstorm →
JUNE 21, 2011, GIJS VAN WULFEN:
There are numerous reasons why a brainstorm session can produce few great ideas or none at all. Gijs van Wulfen gives us his suggestions for the perfect brainstorm.
The fuzzy front end of innovation confronts you with a lot of questions. In my new book ‘Creating innovative Products and Services’ I try to solve them with the FORTH innovation method.
Every one...
Cut-Away Leaf Art →
Brilliant organic art:
The Abolition of Work →
Interesting article, has the tenseness of a sociology major with too much caffeine & nicotine, but some points worth considering…. Some highlights:
“No one should ever work….
That doesn’t mean we have to stop doing things. It does mean creating a new way of life based on play; in other words, a ludic revolution. By “play” I mean also festivity,...
Yarn Bombing: The Knit Graffiti Movement →
This international stealth subculture has been wrapping itself around urban structures for the past few years, and I, for one, can’t get enough of it. I’m an avid lover of urban art to begin with so when you add a covert, colorful, crafty, non-destructive element to the streets, it’s like having machine-spun maple cotton candy at the local county fair.
From:...
Engineered Bacteria Can Fill Cracks In Aging... →
Breakthroughs in biotech--implantable memory →
Memory devices implantable in biological tissues; have the consistency of Jell-O….. a new generation of scrumptious, intelligent desserts?
Curious? Read more by clicking the link
Glam Media: Helping Authors Connect with Readers,... →
Mapping The Clean-Tech Economy | Fast Company →
How Will Colleges Innovate as the Market Is... →
July 11, 2011, 12:51 am
By Jeffrey Selingo, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Remember cellphones in the early 1990s? They were either installed in a car or you had to carry a bulky bag around with you—that is, if you could get decent signal. Few then thought they would become the ubiquitous devices they are today.
Cellphones were a “disruptive innovation.” That’s the process by which a product...
Cities grappling with aging creating 'Aging... →
To envision how this silver tsunami will challenge a youth-oriented society, just consider that seniors soon will outnumber schoolchildren in hip, fast-paced New York City.
It will take some creative steps to make New York and other cities age-friendly enough to help the coming crush of older adults stay active and independent in their own homes.
“It’s about changing the way we think...
The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist... →
Mick Ebeling founded the Not Impossible Foundation, a nonprofit that develops creative solutions to real-world problems.
The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. In a remarkable talk at TEDActive, entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of collaborators built an open-source invention that gave the artist —...
I Flunked My Social Media Background Check. Will... →
Your next job application could require a social media background check. Odds are, you have no clue what that means. Nobody does. It’s new and scary and probably scours the Web for pictures of you….
Make your funeral unforgettable with “Final Act of... →
Make your dreams become reality once you’ve embarked on the Eternal Sleep.
You choose your own clothing or costume… dress as if you were going to a masquerade party or ‘fancy dress ball,’ as the British call it. Express the ballerina within …. the poet, the statesman, the queen, the ultimate nerd, if you want. And, of course, you will want to design your make-up to...
“The 49 poorest countries, inhabited by 11% of the world’s population only...”
– From: page 6, Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty, by Zygmunt Bauman, 2007
Train Graffiti: mobile public art →
Wow! Very cool to see what people can do the an unusual canvas…
Thanks @paulogabriel for the heads’ up on these cool designs!
Click the link to see more!
Cabestan Sol Invictus Solar Watch $710,000,... →
A very cool watch that costs a lot more than most peoples’ homes ($710,000!) I don’t need to know what time it is that badly!
Lego Album covers →
Another great way in which our inventive spirits and pop culture mate and reproduce……
Click the link to see more!
Altruism, Philanthropy, and Serving people better:... →
Shopkick Switches To For-Profit Status, Sees Surge In Charitable Giving
BY GREGORY FERENSTEIN, Fast Company
The popular geo-location app grew its total user base as it transitioned from nonprofit to for-profit—having more users to give to charity in the process.
In a fascinating case study of how the for-profit industry can sometimes make a greater social impact than the nonprofit...
Practice Attraction: A business blog with soul! →
How lucky am I that I know wonderfully engaged people? One of my favorites, Jessica Abegg, a writer, coach, guide and speaker has been hard at work bringing her perspectives on business to the world in this blog, Practice Attraction. Well done!
Post-it note ghost →
I am amazed at the things we do with our freetime. This hilarious post probably took hours to cook up. A million years of evolution and one of humankind’s favorite past times is making up stories to amuse ourselves and others with. Well, well done in the case!
The End of Demographics: How Marketers Are Going... →
Better tools allow us to know more about people than just their demographics, including more about their lives, habits and patterns that can help deliver more targeted marketing and value to them.
Why Do People Follow Brands? [INFOGRAPHIC] →
On Twitter, Facebook, and dozens of other social sites, normal consumers often choose to keep tabs on the brands they love. In fact, many brands have highly optimized their marketing and PR strategies to accommodate that behavior, even going to far as to do one-to-one CRM (that’s customer or c…
HOW TO: Turn Your Resume Into a Gorgeous,... →
The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. A new app called Vizualize.me will instantly turn your LinkedIn profile into a stunning infographic, all through the power of code — no graphic design skill…
5 Innovative Facebook Campaigns to Learn From →
Here are five recent Facebook campaigns that offer some instructive examples on how the platform can be used to amplify a message or interact with consumers in a new way…..
Faith and Social Enterprise →
What motivates you to change the world?
An innate sense of fairness? The values passed from an inspiring parent or teacher? Maybe a personal faith or a devotion to living out the tenets found in religious scriptures?
Some of the world’s most-admired and influential social innovators were moved to action – against steep odds and at grave personal danger – in response to their deep-seated...
Does Beer Equate to Development? →
A wise man once said, “beer, the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems”. More recently, Center for Global Development (CGD) Senior Fellow, Charles Kenney published an article in Foreign Policy magazine called “Chug for Growth” discussing the role of beer and beer manufacturing in developing countries. Ever since the development profession (for lack of a better word) began, people have...
Greenwashers Beware! →
Two Sides, an environmental advocacy group known for holding greenwashing marketers’ feet to the fire in the United Kingdom, has launched in the United States.
One of Two Sides’ successes in the U. K. has been its campaign to challenge what it calls “misleading messaging” related to the supposed environmental benefits of electronic billing.
“Research carried out prior to the U.K. campaign...
Grassroots Philanthropy in Schools →
Want to make sure American schoolchildren have enough pencils for a poetry writing unit, violins for a school recital, or microscope slides for a biology class? Go to DonorsChoose.org, an online charity that makes it easy to support any classroom project request nationwide. In this audio interview with host Ashkon Jafari, CEO Charles Best talks about the organization’s humble beginnings, its...
Craigslist for Nonprofit Connections →
Craigconnects helps link people who are working for the common good with effective nonprofits and organizations that get the job done. It does so by highlighting nonprofits that are making an impact in a variety of social areas. In this audio interview with Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Ashkon Jafari, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark tells us about how he started...
Mentoring young entrepreneurs & changemakers →
(Podcast) Keeping social entrepreneurship strong means mentoring our youth, says Bill Drayton in this university podcast. The founder of Ashoka, the world’s oldest support organization for social entrepreneurs, Drayton discusses how children are an important focus for the organization’s current roster of emerging social enterprise all-stars. Identifying key leadership qualities and how...
Adapting the Hub Model in Mexico & Brazil →
What were the challenges in starting and maintaining the HUB?
JV: Our biggest challenge has been to adapt the European model of the HUB to Latin America. It was a difficult job to get people to recognize the value of working in a shared space, as our culture does not see much value in networking efforts. We have tried to address this challenge by giving importance to personalized and customized...
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Entrepreneurship in Latin America →
The Doing Business 2011: Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs report ranks 183 countries on nine parameters: Starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and closing a business. Beyond Profit looks at the top five Latin American countries for doing business.
Are Facebook, Twitter Fostering Civic Engagement? →
The question of whether social media promotes engagement is contested terrain, but there are encouraging signs of the value of social media. Healthy skepticism is good, but so is re-evaluating what engagement and value can look like.
By Emily Badger, Miller McCune
….Macon Phillips, the White House director of digital strategy, sounds certain the net effect is positive for invigorating...
Jobs in the Arts growing faster than overall labor... →
A new National Endowment for the Arts analysis projects a healthy rate of growth in arts jobs through the year 2018.
By Tom Jacobs, Miller McCune
…The NEA projects a growth rate of 11 percent for arts-related occupations over the next seven years. Perhaps surprisingly, that’s a bit higher than the projected increase of 10 percent for the overall labor force.
Granted, the figure is...
Foursquare + Google Maps = Risk Live! →
“World of Fourcraft” uses Foursquare and Google Maps APIs to turn New York City into a giant game of Risk. Users decide which team they are on by swearing allegiance to one of New York City’s five boroughs. Checking into a neighborhood on Foursquare is the online game’s equivalent to placing plastic man on a country in the board game. An algorithm decides who owns each neighborhood using the...
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Farmarazzi campaign - Food Production Transparency... →
When Slow Food USA heard that four states had introduced legislation that would make it illegal to take photos or videos of farms, they felt it was important to launch our Farmarazzi campaign (like paparazzi, get it?). Inhumane and unhealthy conditions are present in our food system, and keeping that information from the public won’t make them go away. We wanted to use this as an opportunity to...
June 2011
37 posts
Calling all photographers and artists: GRI extends... →
So how do you picture sustainability?
GRI’s competition is offering all photographers and artists the opportunity to contribute to GRI’s visual identity and communications. GRI’s vision is a sustainable global economy. To help fulfill its mission of mainstreaming sustainability reporting, GRI will launch a new website later this year. GRI’s website is a global point of reference in the...