Thursday, May 31, 2012

Paul's Update 5/31

RSA Animate: The Power of Networks
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You Call That Innovation?
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Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence From Randomized Trials
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Can Trees Actually Deter Crime?
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Content Curation: Are You Doing it Right?
As a curator this is the best list of attributes I've seen. Paul
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Why 15 Minutes?
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Decide Together with VoteIt
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Tornado Tracks. (This is amazing! Paul)
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Paul's Update 5/30

Why Great Ideas Come When You Aren't Trying
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Poverty Helps Explain Why Rural Students Don't Finish College
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Faculty Groups Consider How to Respond to MOOCs
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FLYM Speakers, Fold Flat, Sound Good
I haven't heard these speakers but they look like a great idea to carry along. Paul
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Planners are the New Public Health Officials
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Top Ten Creativity Questions. Psychology Today
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Google Docs Research Tool: A Review
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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Paul's Update 5/29

Detroit Rising: Creative Potential
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Crowdsource Computer Game to Help Solve Global Health Problems
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In Innovation Today, The Smartest Companies Collaborate with Enemies
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What is Creativity?
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Meet Face-to-Face Online
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Frank Sonnenberg: A Marriage Made in Heaven
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Leading Transformation and Captivating Communities
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Friday, May 25, 2012

Paul's Update 5/25

5 Visions of the Future of Service in America
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Open Access To Research Petition
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Phillip Ball on the Origins of Curiosity
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Mapping Global Water Stress
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The Benefits of Distance Learning
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Open Innovation by group member Harold Jarche
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In Defense of Polymaths
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Paul's Update 5/24

Mapnificent Tool Shows Why Detroiters Drive Everywhere
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The 6 Hiring Mistakes Everyone Makes
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A New View on Lurkers Post by group member Harold Jarche
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The Walters Uploads More Than 19,000 Images of Artworks to Wikimedia
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When a Music Scene Leads to a Boom
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John Hill: Inversity, A Higher Education View of LinkedIn
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Michigan Specific: WMU President John M. Dunn on How Universities Will be Measured...
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Marketing Needs a New Metaphor
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Paul's Update 5/23

Housing Recovery Tied To Walkability - But It May Depend on Where You Are
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The Importance of Breaking Down Silos
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Detroit Typography Found by Leigh Graves Wolf
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AT&T's Largest Donation Ever Creates a National Hub for Learning Through Video Games
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What Does "Creative Placemaking" Look Like
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After the Crash: How Will People Live and Spend in the New Economy?
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Five Manifestos For The Creative Life
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Why You Should Start a Company...In Grand Rapids
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Will Chinese Investors Build a Chinese Town in Rural Michigan?
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Paul's Update 5/22

Most Marketers Still Not Making Data-Driven Decisions
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The Limits of Density... Richard Florida
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Five Ways Process is Killing Your Productivity
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Food Security Means Water Too
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Managing Elephants While Ants Walk By
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I Can No Longer Work For a System That Puts Profit Over Access to Research
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Monday, May 21, 2012

Paul's Update 5/21

Quality of Place Trumps Density says Richard Florida
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The Third Industrial Revolution with Jeremy Rifkin
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Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim: The Process of Innovation"
Stanford Engineering Hero Lecture...webinar 7pm Tuesday 5/22
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How Detroit is Rising
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5 Lessons for Using Open Innovation to Maximize the Wisdom of the Crowds
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Giving iPad PowerPoint Presentations Just Got Better
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Paul's Update 5/18

Clayton Christensen on How to Find Work You Love
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MIT Professor: 10 Predictions About the World My GrandChildren Will Inherit
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Whole Foods Hole: Now Detroit's Most Important Dirt Indent
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The Coming Meltdown in College Education and Why the Economy Won't Get Better Anytime Soon
(I included this because, believe it or not, people listen to Mark Cuban.)
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UseIt.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website
This gem was discovered and shared by group member Harold Jarche. This is what a website used to look like in prehistoric times (ten years ago...) It's here for fun. Paul
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A Chuck Close Museum in the New York City Subway. Admission: $2.50
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Constructive Capitalism: Business That Makes Lives Better
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Paul's Update 5/17

Google Easy Dashboard Library Makes Using Analytics API Easier
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What Killing the American Community Survey Would Actually Mean
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Structural, Cyclical... or Institutional Umair Haque
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Forget GDP and Start Measuring Inclusive Wealth
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Democracy is for Amateurs: Why We Need More Citizen Citizens
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The Big Idea That Can Revolutionize Higher Education:"MOOC"
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IOM Outlines National Weight-Loss Plan
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Crowdsourcing Game Helps Diagnose Infectious Diseases
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Paul's Update 5/16

Take a Weirdo To Lunch
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Move Over Harvard and MIT, Stanford has the Real Revolution in Education
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The Midwest's Manufacturing Conundrum. Richard Florida
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Tackling Food Waste Through Packaging Innovation.
(The data in this article related to food waste are amazing.)
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The Digital Lives of American Moms
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In Praise of Single Mothers
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States Where The American Dream is Still Possible
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Paul's Update 5/15

The Six Enemies of Greatness (and Happiness)
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Management Information EXchange: Redefining Success in Business
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The $1 Billion Ghost City Built To Test the Technology of Tomorrow
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NYU Dean To Devote His Sabbatical to Expanding U. of the People
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Serendipity: How Air Freshener Research Led to a New Fuel0Cell Charger for Phones
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Open Data Movement Redux: Tribes and Contradictions
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Whole Brain Thinking: Cultivate 21st Century Creativity and Leadership
(Perhaps that bit of grant money remaining could support a trip to British Columbia.)
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Monday, May 14, 2012

Paul's Update 5/14

The Five Accidents Behind Breakthrough Thinking
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Unleashing the Creative Reservoir: The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited. Richard Florida
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Crush the "I'm Not Creative" Barrier
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Losing Yourself in a Fictional Character Can Affect Your Real Life
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How Eli Broad Works 24/7 - and Still Gets 8 Hours of Sleep Evedry Night
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Get The Real Story From Your Dashboards
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Artists Debate Whether the Discipline Needs a Doctorate
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Friday, May 11, 2012

Paul's Update 5/11

The Climate Fixers: Is The a Technological Solution to Global Warming?
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A Free Beginners Guide To The Sharing Economy
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Obesity Could Affect 42% of Americans by 2030
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University of Michigan Unveils Collaboration Funding Scheme
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Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught in School
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Dieter Rams on Good Design as a Key Business Advantage
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Who are the One Percent
I think this is an important read. Do you?
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Paul's Update 5/10

Umair Haque: The Next Big Thing
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A 5-Step Technique for Producing Ideas Circa 1939
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Design Thinking for Social Innovation
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Three Lenses for Innovation
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Take Advantage of Your Network - Casual Brainstorming
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Interpreting the Strategic Discussion for Innovation
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Find the 15 Minute Competitive Advantage. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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In Denmark: A Printable House
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Paul's Update 5/9

Harvard and MIT Innovate: Rest of Higher Ed Should Take Note
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Encouraging Creativity with a Growth Mindset
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The Top 5 Sites for Keeping Up with Creativity and Design
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The Four Framing Technique for Critical Innovation Questions
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Mapping and Data: Can Geographic Data Help Service Planning
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The Stranger in a Strange Land or... A Realization About How Newcomers View Our City (Detroit)
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Serendipity as an Accident That Results in Discovery... Still Exists
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Quantified Community: Visualizing the Health and Illness of Washington, DC Through Open Data and Art
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Paul's Update 5/8

Clay Christensen's Life Lessons
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The Unknown Inventor Whose Work is Saving The Developing World
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Open Badges for Lifelong Learning
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Let's Make Badges Not Stink
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Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic?
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Using Data Mining to Predict Epidemics Before They Spread
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OpenStudy: Study Together with over 100,000 students
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Monday, May 7, 2012

Paul's Update 5/7

Our Malleable Minds
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How The Internet Redefined Urban Space
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Reflecting on Boundaries: Who is Teaching and Who is Learning?
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The Story of The Last Teapot Dilemma
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OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories
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American Association of Community Colleges: Reclaiming the Dream (Report)
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Accelerate Your Project Work With Asana: A Virtual Whiteboard
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Live Chat: Supersizing the College Classroom. Tuesday May 8 at noon EST
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