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Twenty-One Popular Nonprofit Mashup Projects

Readers of the NetSquared blogs have voted and Twenty-One Popular Nonprofit Mashup Projects have been chosen for participation in the upcoming NetSquared Conference. There is a lot of great stuff there, but I'll draw your attention to one in particular: Peter Dietz's amazing aggregation of 29 peer-to-peer social action platforms.

Posted: 3/31/08; 3:13:41 PM #

Boundaries: Healthy to the Absurd

The latest post at Navigating Soft Skills is called Boundaries: Healthy to the Absurd. It's a smart critique of how "boundary setting" is often taught as a rather shallow, self-centered process, rather than one that is inherently relational. Given the predominance of the "boundaries" concept in a wide range of social and professional skills, I found this biting critique to be deeply relevant.

Posted: 3/31/08; 3:08:01 PM #

The Age of the Anti-Cassandra, by Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman's punchy editorial on The Age of the Anti-Cassandra will ring a bell for thousands of people working in civil society. He rightfully bemoans the fact that those of us who in the past have been right - about Iraq, global warming, crimes in the financial markets, sex education, and so forth - get no credit, attention, or influence for it. This is not a new phenomenon, nor is it restricted to only high-profile issues, but rather it's a painful dysfunction of how authority is managed in our society.

Posted: 3/31/08; 2:51:45 PM #

Online Coverage of the 2008 Skoll World Forum

Last week's Online Coverage of the 2008 Skoll World Forum was really quite good. You have to drill through a bit to find the substance and you have to overlook the corporate perspective, but it was worth it in several cases, including these great panel topics: Empathy as a Tool for Social Impact, Effective Models for Partnership, Replication and Scale, Hybrid and For-Profit Business Models, and Marketing that Matters.

Posted: 3/31/08; 2:46:06 PM #


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