Recommended Links from people in the know
Steve Boland
@steveboland, steveboland.com
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The Power and Possibility of Simple Technology
MAP for Nonprofits discusses their study with Idealware, funded by ADC Foundation. 4 traits for innovation in nonprofits.
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To Innovate, Turn Your Pecking Order Upside Down
I don't agree with all of this - but the core is really important. What we do now can dominate what we should do, and we have to break out of that.
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The worst way to judge a charity
How much administrative expense does not equal how effective a nonprofit is in their work.
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Freakonomics - Lottery savings incentives
Interesting idea to encourage people to save by entering them in a lottery if they do.
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The Starling Project
Intentional, short-term uses of vacant commercial space. A test project is up to rent University Avenue storefront for just $250/week without long-term commitment.
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The New Workstyle: Leaving the Old Behind
Sound advice cloaked in an infographic - meet your workforce where they are and want to be - not where you used to be.
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Selby Avenue 2012: A Slide Show
Great established business, and great news. Selby is a great avenue for shopping/dining/getting out.
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Steve Wellington of Wellington Management Shares Development Insight
Interesting profile of a key player in development work in the Twin Cities.
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Technology for Service Innovation
Great report on the use of technology in nonprofits, creating innovation and new ways of helping people.
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Our Culture of Exclusion
Great self-examination on how cultural emphasis on binge drinking keeps some of us on the outside.
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Nonprofit Finance Fund: 2012 Survey
Interesting results from Nonprofit Finance Fund. You can filter by just MN, or review nationwide.
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Introducing Gmail Tap
Google is the master of the April Fools launch.
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Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod
A short video using "copyright math" to understand the value of something. Spoiler: this ain't your father's math.
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Retraction - This American Life
The show about Apple factory conditions in China was fundamentally true - but not completely. A great discussion of honest retraction, and the mistakes that were made.
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Freakonomics - Conspicuous conservationism
Interesting story of what people will spend to have other people *see* that they are green, rather than just being green.
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Wilder land in Saint Paul to be sold for farm, park
This conversation has been a long time in the coming, and it's great news for residents in the Frogtown neighborhoods in particular!
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Gideon Rosenblatt - Google + is for curation, it’s a social interest graph.
Great explanation of what is different about Google+
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What Kind of Country - This American Life
Really asking the question of what kind of country to do we want? Not as heavy on asking about where the top 1% of the money goes as I'd like, but really good questions and stories.
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Stochastic Pattern Recognition Dramatically Outperforms Conventional Techniques
They had me at the stochastic. No, really. Just moving from flat calculation to leaps in probability is amazing.
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Nonprofits and Solidarity Economies
First of three parts on the idea that the cooperative demand, rather than individual business models, should fuel nonprofit work.
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Canada may close unique environmental research facility
"There is not a way to do whole ecosystem scale freshwater research anywhere else in the world. The work done there has been instrumental in our understanding of acid rain to endocrine disruption."
Forum on the News
MN-03 DFL candidate forum
A discussion with the two Minnesota Democrats vying for the DFL nomination and the chance to unseat Republican incumbent Erik Paulsen.
Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Dan Turpening's deep, wide devotion to the accordion
An accordion played outdoors evokes scenes of Paris in the springtime. Or, in the case of local accordion player Dan Turpening, Minneapolis in May.
From the Audio Archives
1973: Defining Irish
Dr. Eoin McKiernan talks about what it means to be Irish.
