There are currently a bazillion blogs and articles on what any business or entrepreneur can be doing right now to weather the economic crisis and job lay-offs. Rean them all you want, but if you don’t get back to your bascis ...READ»
Family is at the core of community, so in order to
build strong communities we need to look for new ways to develop strong family bonds by using modern web-based tools.READ»
The end of an era is rapidly approaching: Soon the skies will shake no more to Space Shuttle stacks rocketing into orbit, and the world's first real space ship will go gently into retirement. It's so soon, in fact, that NASA's beginning to plan ...READ»
I will be doing all my holiday shopping online this year. I have done the majority of my shopping online in the past few years, but this year I have decided it will all be this way. Some of the sites I have used are Amazon.com, ...READ»
Not surprisingly, amazing things happen when groups of inventive people congregate. Edison was able to accomplish so many great things, through trial and error and with the help of other inventors in his lab. While modern-day labs ...READ»
Last weekend I moderated an author event at the Texas Book Festival. The author I presented, Travis Nichols, is also a musician and said something that caught my attention. A simple phrase that went un-noticed until I brought it up at ...READ»
As a part of the long talked about project to scan all books and make them available on the web, Google has agreed to open an online store as a part of its $125MM Book Search settlement according to Silicon Alley Insider. ...READ»
Given the historic U.S. Presidential election that is now only hours away, I thought it appropriate to take a cursory look at how Senators John McCain and Barack Obama view invention, entrepreneurship, and specifically innovations ...READ»
As the two presidential candidates fight over vouchers and charters in their third debate, DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee gets a shout-out. Where was she? "Asleep," she says. But she dismisses any talk of her becoming the next Secretary of Education as "ridiculous."READ»
(Guest blogged by Daniel Castro)
A new study published last Friday in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society titled “Cross-Cultural Analysis of Students with Exceptional Talent in Mathematical Problem Solving” is ...READ»
Interviewers and entrepreneurs often ask me the same question. What’s the most common trait between successful rock stars and successful entrepreneurs? I know they all wish I had a silver bullet, a magic fix and ...READ»
I'm a voracious learner. In addition to reading magazines, books, blogs, tweets, and faces, I persistently look for patterns, connections, anomalies and what's new. I tolerated school only because it was where my friends were and ...READ»
The marketplace is buzzing with the new way of solving problems.
Though is hasn’t been posted at Dictionary.com or Webster.com (yet) “Socialutions” is defined as people,
communities and organizations leveraging ...READ»
Kiva set the concept of P2P finance in motion, without doubt.
C4 world is another I've come across in my virtual travels, an org from Europe:
http://www.myc4.com/Portal/Default.aspx
Then there's ...READ»
The KaosPilots Netherlands, international school for new business design and social innovation, has announced an open day that will be hold on Saturday, April 26th. The event will take place at the headquarters in Rotterdam. The ...READ»
Coming Soon: Nontrepreneur Nation
How parenting and education are killing American entrepreneurship and innovation
Despite how U.S. students continue to lag far behind those in
Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and ...READ»
Today in my journalism ethics class, I talked with the students about net neutrality. Most of them hadn't heard of it, so I showed them a couple of YouTube videos, including one produced by SavetheInternet.com. In the discussion ...READ»
A Long Walk On A Short Path
Keeping in the tradition of providing clever and entertaining instruction for people to grow their lives, I have teamed up with a new author, Leslie Ann Smith, to help develop an ...READ»
Not too long ago, educators are expected to teach students about what they know. Students, on the other hand, are expected to listen, absorb the information and transform them into knowledge.
This style of teaching or rather, ...READ»
I was once told that there are two kinds of people in this world. Those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t. Anyway, I’ve heard the discussion a lot about the different between education, training ...READ»
In business you here terms like coaching, mentoring or even a buddy program tossed around and used interchangeably. I like to look at these as three separate things that have a unique role and value. Here’s how I define ...READ»
I see Kevin Rose was offered as an answer to the "most creative mind" question. With regard to my constant quest to get Kiva.org variations cloned, I note that Digg has been cloned to death, but there is no real ...READ»
I've sat in dozens of discussions with different companies over a basic question about new hires. Should we look for experience or hire someone out of college? This is actually not an easy question to answer because both choices ...READ»
On a gut level, you might say that kids today just don't read and write like we used to...or most adults just don't read books.
However, when you dig into it a little what's really evident is that reading and writing have ...READ»
