Here’s some interesting new data about the use of tagging–28 percent of Internet users have tagged content and 7 percent have done so on a typical day. It will be even more interesting six months to a year from now when Pew conducts another survey and they can really monitor growth/decline in usage.
Here’s the AP [...]
The NY Times Magazine had an interesting article over the weekend called "Unhappy Meals." It’s a cautionary tale about the vagaries of the current state of nutrition knowledge. In fact, it draws a distinction between eating "food" and consuming "nutrients." It traces how food turned into nutrients somewhere about the 1980s. The author maintains food [...]
The Stanford Social Innovations Review has teamed up with the Conversations Network for some podcasts about social issues. Here’s links to a few that caught my attention.
Social Entrepreneurs Invent the Future
Fostering Effective Nonprofit-Corporate Relationships
Diversity in Fundraising
Internet Marketing Strategies: Extending Your Online Reach
Are you looking for cost-effective ways to improve the effectiveness of your organization? If so, you should read The Wisdom Network by Steve Benton and Melissa Giovagnoli.
The book discusses the Continuum of Knowledge, which begins with
(raw) data on the left and progresses through information, ideas,
knowledge, and ending with wisdom on the right. Wisdom networks are
groups [...]
If you’re interested in understanding the biological mechanisms of cancer, then I’d suggest you get a copy of the January 2007 Scientific American. For the last couple of years SA has been reporting on the growing knowledge of how evolutionary processes play a role in the cancer process. I’m not talking about way-back-when but now, [...]
Second Life: It’s not a gameFortune’s David Kirkpatrick reports on why IBM’s Sam Palmisano and other tech leaders think Second Life could be a gold mine. By David Kirkpatrick, Fortune senior editorJanuary 22 2007: 5:44 PM EST
NEW YORK (Fortune) — Last November in Beijing, IBM gathered 2,000 employees, with 5,000 more watching on the web, [...]
One of my fellow bloggers at Allbusiness.com, Lisa Haneberg, blogs about a free webinar on innovation coming up on January 30. Check it out.
The Pension Protection Act, passes last August, imposes fines and penalties for donors who use donor advised funds to benefit themselves. There have been cases of charitable gifts going to colleges that admit members of the giving family at no cost. Other such gifts have come to the surface as well.
Donor advised funds have [...]
Link: THE 59 SMARTEST ORGS ONLINE on Squidoo.
Netsquared, Get Active, and Squidoo (Seth Godin) come up with the 59 nonprofits who are making the best use of the Internet.
Hmmmm.
The past week I’ve been reading Don Tapscott and Anthony William’s Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. Their claim is that the explosive expansion of interaction and information exchange among ordinary people is changing the competitive game. They maintain that a "perfect storm" energized by the convergence of three factors is going to produce a [...]
