In TheNonProfitTimes, October 1st, was an interesting article about the progress of Online Stores. Growth of sales for stores that have been around more than a year is 5 to 6%/year. And this is just the beginning. The ACS Discovery Shops in California are looking into such a venue, trying to cope with fast turnaround [...]
You can become a Relay Celebrity! If you are an aspiring recording
artist…or if you’re just someone who enjoys making music – now is
your time to shine.
The American Cancer Society’s newewst web site, SharingHope.tv, will
be unveiled soon. As part of the launch, RelayForLife.org and
SharingHope.tv have joined forces to bring this amazing opportunity to
Relay For Life [...]
For the past several years there has been a movement to get the results of scientific research paid for by the National Institutes of Health out into the public domain quicker. Although NIH research grants come from the pockets of American taxpayers, the publication of results is usually in privately held journals that often have [...]
Last week I posted about how companies are working to make genome testing cheap. With low cost, generally a new way of doing things has a chance to have widespread impact.
Now it turns out that, not one, but two companies are launching websites to use DNA testing to enhance the popular pastime of tracing your [...]
I ran across Donor Power Blog this morning. I found it interesting and a little contrarian–something the nonprofit world could benefit from. Check it out and the links to other fundraising blogs listed on the site.
FISpace has been bombarded with comment spam for months now. I turned on comment monitoring so I could stop all the comments except what I OKed. I thought maybe the problem would go away by not letting anything through, but nooooo… The spam has continued, so I’ve turned on the CAPTCHA option. That means anybody [...]
Well how about 2 years or less? Went to a great presentation by one of the guys from PLUCK last night at Austin Social Media Club. The main thing I took away was that we need our Web sites to go from READ to READ/WRITE. This entails many things. From letting people know they can [...]
For a breakthrough idea to have widespread impact it’s necessary for the tools to become cheap. The PC revolution is a reflection of the dramatically diminishing price of computer chips over the last several decades. Another big development would be cheap, fast DNA sequencing. What if we could know what’s in our DNA the way [...]
Craig Venter, maverick geneticist, continues to shake up the world with his breakthrough projects. For the past several years Venter has been working to identify the minimum number of genes needed for life and make an organism that has just that. This is a no-frills creature; it’s got enough processes going on to be alive–eating [...]
One of the things I discuss with colleagues from time to time is where dollar and staff resources should be put these days to have impact with the Society’s message. I always advocate for shifting resources away from traditional media to internet-based media. I think there’s a tipping point being reached were the move to [...]
