Web of Ideas with David Weinberger
“Is the Web Changing the Nature of Leadership?”
Wednesday, December 5, 6:30 pm
Berkman Center Conference Room
23 Everett St., 2nd Floor, Cambridge MA
It’s easy to find business and political leaders. But who are the Web’s leaders? Although the big online collaborative projects have nominal leaders, they play a very different role than [...]
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My friend, Heatherjean, has taken on an inspiring initiative based on her Peace Corps experience in Honduras, coupled by her business savviness – and further driven by her amazing heart and ambition to be a purveyor social good.
The small community of El Boqueron is located at the edge of a cloud forest in the province [...]
sunday musings :: take two
02Dec07The Ethos Roundtable
Next Tuesday, December 18th 2007
4:30 to 6:00 PM
@ the Charles Hotel (1 Bennett Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA)
Featured guest: Michelle Murrain from the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative
The Nonprofit Open Source Initiative (NOSI) recently launched an updated version of its excellent guide, “Choosing and Using Free and Open Source Software: A Primer for [...]
Who doesn’t love a reason to grab a meal out – especially after a long week? Dine at one of the participating restaurants below in observance of World AIDS Day (this Saturday) and to support the work of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts.
Avila (Saturday, December 1) prix fixe menu
Bambara Cambridge (throughout December)
dante (Saturday, [...]
nanowrimo
19Nov07Thought you were busy? You might think twice when you check out this thrilling (and kooky) initiative in celebration of National Novel Writing Month.
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Oh, and [...]
candy and pies
08Nov07I’m currently obsessed with DailyCandy – “a free daily e-mail from the front lines of fashion, food, and fun.” The daily emails enable recipients “to get the scoop on hot new restaurants, designers, secret nooks, and charming diversions in [their] city and beyond.”
And it was in receiving my daily email that I learned of Pie [...]
ma civic engagement summit
04Nov07There’s still time to attend the first-ever Massachusetts Civic Engagement Summit scheduled for Friday, November 16th in Worcester.
Check out the agenda (featuring Governor Deval Patrick) and schedule for more information or if you’re interested in registering, then kudos to you – and with a little rearranging (and luck) I’ll see you there!
As I mentioned in my post “kitchen gadgets on a mission“, there is a great fundraiser going on in support of PKU (Phenylketonuria) that I’d encourage you to check out – with the holidays approaching swiftly why not purchase a gift that keeps on giving?
PKU is a rare inherited metabolic disorder. PKU has an incidence [...]
light bulbs for burma
23Oct07
