Thursday, June 28, 2012

Paul's Update 6/28

Inside Google's Plan to Build a Catalog of Every Single Thing, Ever
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: To Create Jobs, Break the ICE -- Innovate, Collaborate, Educate
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Richard Florida: Class Decides Everything
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Richard Florida: The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited
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Why I Believe This Will Be The Most Innovative Decade in History
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Malcolm Gladwell: Kids Today Don't Understand the Need for Hierarchy
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Can You Crowdsource a City?
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Improving Medicine Supply Chains Using Coca Cola Expertise
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Paul's Update 6/26

Companies Connect Via Social Media During Crisis
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Mother Jones: How to Bring Detroit Back from the Grave
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4 Things That Ninth-Graders Can Teach You About Risk-Taking Design
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University of Utah to Help Student's Publish Video Games
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The Educational Value of Creative Disobedience
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The Ideas Report: The Atlantic
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New App from Digerati is a Game Changer for Entrepreneurs... and its free
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Monday, June 25, 2012

Paul's Update 6/25

Five Tips for Creating Scalable Leadership
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Unconscious Creativity, Conscious Creating
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Meet the Start-ups About to Revolutionize Mobile Loyalty Programs
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A Guidebook for the Urban Age
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Urban Research: The Laws of the City
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Against Positive Thinking: Uncertainty as the Secret of Happiness
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Friday, June 22, 2012

Paul's Update 6/22

Can Cross Discipline Thinking Yield Solutions to a Major Global Health Crisis
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Why Women Still Can't Have It All
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Why Crowded Coffee Shops Fire Up Your Creativity
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Understanding "Availability Bias" Can Help You Prioritize New Growth Strategies
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Remember The Automat
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Rise of China's Creative Class?
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Incivility. The New WMD
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Your Tweets are Why The Next alter Cronkite Will Be a Robot
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Paul's Update 6/21

Rise of the Social Business Architect
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Pull Marketing - Upside Down Social Web Design
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Forget Edison: This is How History's Greatest Inventions Really Happened
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Michigan Man Has 29 Degrees and Counting
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What If The Housing Bust Wasn't a Game Changer?
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The Paradoxical Gift of Paradox
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Scholastica: Academic Publishing Done the Right Way
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Paul's Update 6/20

Counter-Intuitive Symbols of Innovation
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Failure Doesn't Suck
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Fast Access to Records Helps Fight Epidemics
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Tom Peters Mega Presentation, Part 14: Ready. Fire! Aim.
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The first Open Learning Design Studio MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) focusing on the theme of curriculum design with OERs
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Weak Signals. Strong Ideas.
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What America Spends on Groceries
Any insight on what has caused the obesity epidemic? Paul
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Paul's Update 6/19

As Land-Grant Law Turns 150, Student’s Crowd into Agricultural Colleges
(Chronicle of Higher Ed: This premium article will be available to nonsubscribers at the link above for five days – to 6/22)
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A New Kind of Leadership for Tomorrow’s Leaders
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Eames Designs: Home of all things Eames… 1959 Vogue Biography
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Is Too Much Familiarity Bad for Creativity?
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Web Sites Illuminate Unknown Artists
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Cursive slowly scribbled out of N.J. curriculums as computer skills gain value in schools
What do you think? Should they stop teaching cursive? Paul
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The Flipped Classroom on Learnist… Pinterest for Education (Don’t worry if you don’t know what Pinterest is, just click on any image on the page and you’ll get another story about the flipped classroom. Paul)
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Warren Buffet calls the cost of Public-Sector Retirees a “Time Bomb.” Talk about pension reform is rising on both sides of the aisle. Here is what columnist and commentator Fareed Zakaria wrote: Link Here
What do you think?

Monday, June 18, 2012

Paul's Update 6/18

Will Gen Y Deliver a Body Blow to Fortune 500?
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Do You Know Your 3 F's of Innovation?
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Tom Fishburne: Marketoonist
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Mindjet Connect: Collaborate in the Cloud with Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere.
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In This Online University, Students Do The Teaching as Well as the Learning
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MSU Hosts Presentation on OneHealth Approach to Global Health (June 20, 9:00 - 11:00am)
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Paul's Update 6/14

You're not Special
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The Cost of Sprawl on Clean Water
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The Science of Daydreaming: How It Benefits Creativity and Problem-Solving
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Why Boredom is Good for Your Creativity
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Why Weird Experiences Boost Creativity
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Disinvestment in Higher Ed
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Universities Unite to Create a Neuroscience Hub
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Pandemic Preparedness
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Paul's Update 6/13

If You Don't Like Your Future, Re-Write Your Past Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast
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The Future of Detroit (Video- fifth and final installment.)
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Michigan Gets Med-School Boom, Doctor Bust
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Mapping Identifies Best Targets for Malaria Prevention
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Auction your roof to be used for solar power
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The Consumer's Guide to Online Education
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Paul's Update 6/12

Rise of the Expert Generalist
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How Unilever Crowdsourced Creativity to Meet its Sustainability Goals
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Steve Denning: 10 Things You Need to Know About Managing Knowledge
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Twitter Can Track Disease - Can It Predict Outbreaks?
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Girl Geeks Will Inherit The Earth
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Envisioning a World Wide Web in 1934 (Video)
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Kickstarter: How Crowdsourcing Went Mainstream
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70:20:10 - It's Not About the Numbers, It's All About Change
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Paul's Update 6/11

A Bit of Thought Provoking:

How Hashtags and Social Media Bring MegaCorporations to Their Knees
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Lewis Mumford on the City: Rare Footage from 1963 (Video)
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Why Arts Education is Crucial to the New Imagination Economy (Video)
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Did the U.S. Just Open a Pandora's Box?
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Interesting New Resources:

The Launch of Scholrly: new search engine seeks to change the way people find research
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KnowHowMart is a platform that connects professionals with businesses for one-off advice.
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Quip: The gorgeous iPad app that made me enjoy reading Twitter again
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Paul's Update 6/8

A Great Michigan State University Story
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The Learning Organization: an Often-Described, but Seldom-Observed Phenomenon
Blog by group member Harold Jarche
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Future Work Skills 2020
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Malcolm Gladwell Unmasked: A Look Into the Life & Work of America's Most Successful Propagandist
This is not a nice piece and I hope you'll read it with cautious skepticism. Paul
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Are Certificates the Future of Higher Education?
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Detroit Rising: The Businesses that will Lead Detroit
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The Economic Impact of Knowledge Clusters
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Advice From the Late Great Ray Bradbury: Be an "Optimalist"
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Springpad: Ray Bradbury 1920-2012
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Paul's Update 6/7

#Health in my Community: Now Trending.
Develop and submit a web-based application that tracks Twitter to identify trending illnesses.
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We Should Be in a Race for Prevention, Not Cures
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David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain
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Breathtaking Archival Footage of Constructing the Golden Gate Bridge
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America the Fixable: Recommended Reading
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Spectacular Gravity-Defying Elephant Sculpture
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Alice the Elephant's First Appearance
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Lots To Lose: How America's Health and Obesity Crisis Threatens our Economic Future
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Paul's Update 6/6

Meet the "Collaboration Generation"
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An Introduction to The Chronicle Store and the most recent publication: The Digital Campus 2012
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The Economic Costs of Fear
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Big Data Can Save Health Care - But at What Cost to Privacy?
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On Mastery by Hugh MacLeod (cartoonist)
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Zaha Hadid on the Struggle to Succeed...with Rana Florida
They missed the Broad Art Museum but the interview is still interesting. Paul
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The Ideas of Noam Chomsky: Mostly Linguistics and a Little Politics
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June 2012 Trend Briefing: Made Better in China
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Paul's Update 6/5

Why Everyone's Trying to Measure Well-being
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The Faces Behind Detroit's Rebirth. Installment 3 Detroit Rising video
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The Uneven Aging of America. (Map)
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Jim Collins: Be Great Now
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With an Eye on Public Health, Delaware, Michigan Roll Out Clouds
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MIT Establishes Research Center to Harness "Big Data"
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Ford Opens Motor City Innovation Exchange, A Showroom for Detroit Start-ups
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The Hierarchy of Innovation
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Monday, June 4, 2012

Paul's Update 6/4

University of Chicago Free e-Book: Royko in Love by Mike Royko
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Create a Life With Purpose. Video w/Clayton Christensen
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Be careful, research says...Heart Rules the Head When We Make Financial Decisions
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The Creative Finder. Search portfolios and images for networking, collaboration, and inspiration
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Creating New Futures Through Community Conversations: An Interview with Peter Block
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The Innovator's Cookbook: Great Minds on the Power of Serendipity
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Networks Thrive in Complexity by group member Harold Jarche
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Social Media Thought Leader: Ford's Scott Monty Part 1 and 2
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Friday, June 1, 2012

Paul's Update 6/1

Today is my 44th wedding anniversary! Yes I was married as a child. Paul

Tribe - Institution - Market - Network Social Environment: David Ronfeldt
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Myths of Austerity. Paul Krugman, NYTimes Opinion
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Sheryl Sandberg's Inspiring Speech at Harvard Business School
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How Facebook's IPO Got Hijacked by Computers
If you still think you can play the market, you won't after seeing this. Paul
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Why We Are Afraid of Creativity. Psychology Today
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Profile of SpaceX Founder Elon Musk
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Most Unemployed Americans Attended At Least Some College, For the First Time Ever
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