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John Seely Brown: Chief of Confusion
Keynote at Pegasus conference. Talk about scalable learning, connected to open source and more.
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John Seely Brown: Chief of Confusion
Keynote at Pegasus conference. Talk about scalable learning, connected to open source and more.
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Producing Open Source Software – Google Preview – O’Reilly Media
Great resource on organizing open source projects.
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Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship IMPACT Series: Tirza Hollenhorst — ifPeople
CRM Implementation Plan and Topics – Getting Started -
Useful worksheets and process for rolling out CRM. Also helps you define custom fields (vs default fields).
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Taproot Foundation – About – Impact
Organization that organizes professional pro bono work for nonprofits. Largest nonprofit consulting firm. Check out items they report measuring.
AirBnB: Vacation rentals, private rooms, sublets by the night
great interface for finding places to stay. alternative to hotels
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Have you ever wondered why it is so complicated to reach a global agreement on climate change? Or why an additional 45 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere makes such a difference?
Understanding what is necessary to achieve 80% reductions and finding a solution that works for everyone is difficult, to say the least.
Now, you can try your hand at understanding and negotiating such an agreement with the Copenhagen Climate Exercise, a role-playing simulation of the upcoming Copenhagen negotiations designed by MIT and Sustainability Institute. Set up as a highly simplified “Copenhagen-2009-like” U.N. meeting, participants play the role of delegates from three regions of the world and work together to reach a global accord that meets the group’s goal for CO2 levels. A ”UN Secretary General” receives pledges from three different “blocs”, asks her or his technical staff to simulate them in the “C-ROADS” climate simulation (or its simpler version, “C-Learn”), and informs delegates of results, often sending them back for another round of debate, strategy and collaboration.
Designed for 10-60 players, the Copenhagen Climate Exercise helps people quickly learn the policy-relevant science of climate change, viscerally experience the international dynamics, and succeed at crafting a solution to the challenges, while taking a realistic look at the scale of changes ahead as we shift to a low-carbon global economy.
Over the past year, Drew Jones of Sustainability Institute and John Sterman of MIT have run this exercise for European business leaders in Greenland, European Union government policymakers, oil executives, the US Forest Service, members of The Climate Group, and students at MIT and the University of North Carolina. The simulation debrief tends to cover multiple areas: international geo-political dynamics, the biogeochemistry of climate (oceans, plants, the carbon cycle, tipping points), cultural barriers to global agreements, managing hope and fear amidst an uncertain future, a “systems” perspective on complex issues, and the technological, legal, and behavioral changes that will help stabilize the climate.
Blog Action Day is about getting involved, so join in and share your thoughts here! Do you worry about climate change? Are you willing to make drastic changes to prevent it? Do think that we’re pretty much doomed already? Whatever your opinion, join the conversation now!
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I’m getting really excited – Budapest is going to be an awesome Plone conference!! (if you haven’t yet, then go register – we need you there!) You know how it’s going to be, right? Tons of awesome content, for three solid days, plus the trainings beforehand and the sprint afterwards. And that’s just the official program! So many conversations to catch up on and beers to be drunk…it takes a lot of energy! So, I recommend that everyone get stocked up on stimulants for the conference…in particular yerba mate!
I’ve been totting my gourd and yerba to Plone events since I started going in 2005. It comes it incredibly handy, since it’s nice to be coherent at 8am, noon, 8pm…2am…Yerba mate is a tea traditional to South America’s Southern Cone (did you know we have a Plone group there?). It gives a “healthy energy”. It’s got caffeine (and other stimulants…or the legal variety!), but it also has loads of Vitamin C, B, magnesium, potassium.
Yerba mate is traditionally drunk out of a gourd that holds the tea and has a filter straw you sip out of. It’s a social drink, so goes great for conferences (you have to be careful drinking by yourself as you can get reaaaally wired!). It can be used in a French press if loose leaf and also comes in tea bags. It can be drunk hot or cold, bitter (natural) or sweet.
I recommend you go with Guayaki as a provider. Their yerba is organic, fair trade, and shade grown (I’ve visited the farms, met farmers, and seen the whole process). Their company is able to preserve thousands of acres in the rainforest by the sale of yerba mate!
To sweeten the deal, I’m offering to help in 2 ways:
1.If you live outside the US, you may not be able to get it in time and it may be really expensive to ship to you anyway. I’ll have some extra space in my bag and will be able to use it to haul Guayaki mate to Plonistas (until I run out of space). If you are interested, leave a comment and let me know how much stuff you are getting so I can plan the space. First come, first served! Do this soon because it takes a while to get to me!!
2. I got a coupon for you
. 10% off the whole order. Just click Guayaki to start exploring mate goodness.
Hope to see you soon – and bien mateado – in Budapest!
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As many of you are aware, the highly anticipated NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference is being held April 8 – 10. 2009, in Atlanta, home of ifPeople HQ.
To engage the nonprofit community, NTEN has made all session proposals public and has invited people like you to vote on your favorites. This is a great opportunity to let your voice be heard and help influence what’s going to be an informative and inspiring conference for non-profits and consultants alike.
ifPeople has proposed several sessions. Click on the links below to read more what we’re proposing — and don’t forget to vote as well!
An Open Civic Engagement Platform: Empowering Nonprofit Communications with Mature Stable Solutions
An Open Source Approach to Collaboration: Sustainable, Inner-Organizational Collaboration
25 Ways to Increase Your Org’s Communication Capacity: Accomplishing More Without More Staff
Or get a full listing of all the proposals and vote on your favorites.
Hurry! Voting ends this Friday.
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The Climate Interactive Scoreboard — Climate Interactive
Want to know what the climate policies being negotiated mean for global impact? Check out the Climate Interactive “Climate Scoreboard”
OpenCourseWare content from MIT – learn Python!
Certified Administrator at ForceCertified.com
Study guides for the salesforce.com administrator exam
Ubuntu One : File sharing, syncing for ubuntu
Looks like a remake of Dropbox, but for Ubuntu-specific users. Has desktop and web component. 2GB free.
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15 Online Press Release Distribution Sites
Great resource on press release distribution
Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection? | Berkman Center
Provocative topic lecture at Harvard Berkman Center, video and audio available.
Consulting Resource Center – Home – developer.salesforce.com
Resources for providing salesforce.com support and help. Nice collection, and open to improvement by community.
Plone Event Sponsorship Policy — Plone CMS: Open Source Content Management
The Plone Foundation now has a formal means of supporting participation/promotion of events.
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