I just found a blog about nonprofits that I’d like to plug: nonprofiteye. It’s written by LA blogger Pam Ashlund. Her post on the NetSquared blog asks the same question Lisa was asking the other day: Where’s the innovation in nonprofits? How do you get it cookin’ in your organizaton? Anyway, I like Pam’s style and her attitude. Check it ...

I was the training director around here maybe 10 years ago, and I still get catalogs from companies pitching their seminars. But something in a slick Gartner Symposium promotional piece that landed in my inbox today caught my attention. One of the seminars listen under "What’s hot?" is titled "The Consumerization of IT." It says, in part: Falling prices and ...

A couple of small announcements this week caught my attention. One is Sony’s announcement that they’re coming out with mylo (my life online).  "The mylo is a mobile instant messenger device that doubles as a Skype phone, web appliance, and media player."  It all depends on wi-fi so you have to be in proximity to an open "hotspot" the take ...

The newly approved vaccine for human papilloma virus (HPV) is certainly an encouraging development of efforts to prevent cancer by protecting against pernicious invaders. But what about vaccines to treat cancers that have already gotten started? Well, there’s encouraging news there too. There’s a good article at bio.com about vaccines to prime the immune system to recognize tags on cells ...