Category: Regenerative Economy

  • Simple Online Time Tracking Software – Harvest

    Simple Online Time Tracking Software – Harvest. I’ve used this software to track time on a team and it worked pretty darn well. It is part of the Basecamp portfolio which I also use for project management and is entirely cloud based so is very easy to set up and rollout with minimal IT resources.…

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  • IBM Gaming and Leadership Report

    IBM Research | IBM Innovation | Gaming and Leadership Report. Related articles InterConnect 2012: Where business and IT leaders connect (ibm.com) Is Big Tech Back on Top? (fool.com) The first step to changing the culture in healthcare (kevinmd.com) IBM Watson: All grown up and off to medical school (katsinsight.com) Who Should Replace Mark Zuckerberg? (fool.com)…

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  • Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar

      Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar – NYTimes.com. Related articles StartX, Stanford’s nonprofit accelerator, nabs $800,000 funding grant (venturebeat.com) Inside Stanford’s creativity factory (management.fortune.cnn.com) The Way of the Future: Coursera (jaypgreene.com) Home Schooling As the 21st Century Model for Public Schools? (etcjournal.com) Dear Candice, I’m Sorry About The Internet – LockerGnome (lockergnome.com) The…

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  • David Allen, Getting Things Done® and GTD®

        David Allen, Getting Things Done® and GTD®.   this approach to time management focuses on organizing things by the context in which you do them, like you have done with the house: kitchen, office, recreation etc.     Related articles GTD Times: Ten Ways To Get More Done At Work (gtdtimes.com) Test Your…

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  • OmniPlan for Mac – The Omni Group

      OmniPlan for Mac – The Omni Group. really good project management software. wish it was hosted and web based Related articles News: OmniPlan adds PDF export, task and resource reports (ilounge.com) Manage Projects Like A Pro On Your iPad [Feature] (cultofmac.com) RSS Sponsor: OmniPlan for iPad → (omnigroup.com) Weekly Poll: Which Omni Group Apps…

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  • 43 Folders | Time, Attention, and Creative Work

    43 Folders | Time, Attention, and Creative Work. best project and time management approach Related articles Great Email Time Management Tips Part 1 (brucemayhew.wordpress.com) The Paradox Of Time- What I Have Learn’t So Far (auniqueworld.wordpress.com) Find Time to be Savvy-5 Favorite Sites for Tech, Time and Productivity (solo-e.com) Management Tip ~ Stop Wasting Your Boss’s…

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  • University of Michigan: School of Information

          UMSI.   Related articles   Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies Offers Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science (digital-scholarship.org) Yale Braunstein, professor of information, dies at 67 (ischool.berkeley.edu) Michigan School Report Cards Released (detroit.cbslocal.com) University of Michigan Courses (programmableweb.com)  

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  • CS224W Social and Information Network Analysis | Stanford University Online

    CS224W Social and Information Network Analysis | Stanford University Online. Related articles Stanford’s Next Lesson: Free Online Courses For Credit And Degrees? (npr.org) Stanford’s Next Lesson: Free Online Courses For Credit And Degrees? (npr.org) Stanford adds social learning component to free online course (insidehighered.com) Digitization Projects: Stanford Releases Hundreds of Oral History Interviews Online (infodocket.com)…

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  • Greening capitalism talk from David Blood

    A good overview of the need to make finance more social e.g. focused on the cultural, health and the environmental context of investments. David Blood is a graduate of Hamilton College ’81 who I heard at the reunion weekend.

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  • Thomas Lovejoy featured at Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts & Sciences ceremonies

    Introduced by noted anthropologist and dean Katherine Newman the graduation ceremony for JHU Krieger School of Arts and Sciences featured Thomas Lovejoy, founder of Nature series on PBS  and the Biodiversity Chair at the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment based in Washington, DC. Lovejoy noted that “human creativity is without limits” and critical…

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  • Crowd-sourcing college housing: repurposing the McMansions

    Increasingly I’ve noted the rise in the rental economy in the USA as the previous ownership mentality of many Americans traumatized by economic collapse and wealth inequalities is replaced by one of access. One interesting example of this is college students who, according to a slew of recent articles, are now taking over McMansions which…

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