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Don’t Have a Cow, Give a Cow Instead Darlene Fichter, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada: “Giving Small” is the story of how I started to focus more time and attention on “gifting” in my day to day life. You might be thinking why not “Give Big”? Yep, I’m a fan of the show. But it can be …
News release: “With only a few days remaining before Election Day, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and the Kaiser Family Foundation, writing for the November 6, 2008, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), find that seven in ten registered voters say major changes are needed in the U.S. health care system. The article, …
“This document, Cisco Visual Networking Index Pulse Survey: Online Video and Political Engagement Highlights, presents some of the initial high-level findings of a new study assessing the influence of online video and other social media applications on Americans’ political engagement. The study was conducted by Compete and sponsored by Cisco. Many eligible American voters are …
How Can Leaders Channel the Creative Potential of Individualistic Groups?: According to Prof. Jack Goncalo, one of the challenges that leaders face is how to foster creative potential. His research supports the position that how leaders maintain momentum and make sure their organizations are dynamic and creative is determined by where they fall on the …
Leadership & The Role Of Information: Making The Creatively Informed Questioner – Stuart Basefsky supports the concept that the quintessential leader is an informed leader. However, effectively communicating and leveraging the power of information, in leadership roles, is subject to a range of interpretations that he discusses in this forward thinking series.
E-Discovery Update: Pushing Back Against Hardcopy ESI Productions – Conrad J. Jacoby addresses how critical technology issues related to document authenticity and document-associated metadata have left fewer lawyers willing to accept e-mail messages and other electronic documents in print format. He argues that litigants choosing to produce electronically stored information in hardcopy format should be …
As print media decline, so does the amount of available information, by David Carr, IHT: “It has been an especially rotten few days for people who type on deadline. Just Tuesday, The Christian Science Monitor announced that, after a century, it would cease publishing a weekday paper. Time Inc., the Olympian home of Time magazine, …
The Changing Prospects for Building Home Equity: An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas, October 2008, Hye Jin Rho, Danilo Pelletiere, and Dean Baker “This report updates CEPR’s May 2008 report titled Ownership, Rental Costs and the Prospects of Building Home Equity: An Analysis of 100 Metropolitan Areas, …
The United Nations Office of Legal Affairs launched the Audiovisual Library of International Law. [Lorraine Pellicano Waitman] “The Audiovisual Library is a unique, multimedia resource which provides the United Nations with the unprecedented capacity to provide high quality international law training and research materials to an unlimited number of recipients on a global level. The …
“Today a diverse coalition of leading Internet companies, major human rights and free press organizations, investors and academics launched the Global Network Initiative to protect and advance freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technologies. CDT and Business for Social Responsibility co-facilitated an 18-month effort by these groups to craft the key documents …
News release: “The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and Google today announced a groundbreaking settlement agreement on behalf of a broad class of authors and publishers worldwide that would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections of a number of major …
“The final Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Election 2008 finds more people are reporting problems with health care bills, and paying for health care retains a solid hold on the publics list of their top economic concerns. About one in three Americans now report their family has had problems paying medical bills in the past year, …
