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This morning I received an online petition to support changes to US fuel efficiency standards, and the reasons I didn’t sign it say a lot about the problems of the social change sector today.
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The Soulful Company
11 hours ago Basic conclusion of this article is that people are still trying to figure out the actual impact ...
February 22, 2012
February 22, 2012
12 hours ago Systems thinking, complexity thinking and software development. These are some kick-ass slides. R...
February 22, 2012
February 22, 2012
13 hours ago Reshared post from Ali Adelstein
How The Happiest People In The World Spend Their Money
There...
February 22, 2012
February 22, 2012
14 hours ago Reshared post from John Hagel
We live in world of connected networks yet largely study isolate...
February 22, 2012
February 22, 2012
3 days ago Google's doing very local outreach. These cards were sitting out front in one of our favorite del...
February 19, 2012
February 19, 2012
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Alchemy of Change Weekly Links (weekly)
Larry Page: Google should be like a family – Fortune Tech I don’t think it’s any of those individual things. It’s important that the company be a family, that people feel that they’re part of the company, and that the company is like a family to them. When you treat people that way, you get …
Alchemy of Change Weekly Links (weekly)
(1) Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks People are more likely to share information from their strong ties, but because of their abundance, weak ties are primarily responsible for the majority of information spread on Facebook. The figure above illustrates how a majority of influence (orange) can be generated by weak ties, even if strong ties …
Social Context Original Text
This was the original test from the now revised “Why Our Software Needs Social Context” An Idea for Filtering and Signaling Social Context Imagine your phone had a simple slider bar that allowed you to filter your incoming stream of information in real time. Slide the control up to the top to maximum “relationship-mode,” and …
Alchemy of Change Weekly Links (weekly)
Tracking 18th-century “social network” through letters – YouTube Researchers map thousands of letters exchanged in the 18th century’s “Republic of Letters” and learn at a glance what it once took a lifetime of study to comprehend. tags: networks Articles AOC Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Trust in Luck
“If you ever have to choose
between hard work and luck:
choose luck.
But remember…
Luck doesn’t like a schmo.”
- Joseph Rosenblatt
Alchemy of Change Weekly Links (weekly)
Corporation 20/20 – Designing for Social Purpose What is the core purpose of the corporation? How should it be designed to seamlessly blend sustainability into its design, ownership, governance, strategy and practices? Corporation 20/20 is an international, multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to answer these questions. Its goal is to develop and disseminate a vision, pathway for the 21st century …
The Heart of the Occupation
Like new-born hearts, beating and radiating from many locations and in all directions, the Occupy Movement is reframing our environmental and social problems as the symtoms of one root cause: the concentration of wealth and its corruptive influence on business and government. The vibrancy of this movement is giving courage to many, and may even shift the way the Tea Party thinks about the real problems now facing America.
Alchemy of Change Weekly Links (weekly)
What is HTML5, and why it will save the web from itself HTML5 is designed to fix all those problems in one grand transition to a massively overhauled version of the web’s most popular language: HTML. The new version makes media — especially video — into a first class citizen, allowing it to be streamed natively without …
