Social Change

Howard Rheingold, the guy who gave us “smart mobs,” now sees a new form of economic collaboration emerging from all the blogs, Googling, open source, Amazon ranking and other stuff. Gives me a sense of deja vu. Wasn’t this called the New Economy a few years back? Anyway, he’s talking it up in a Business Week article. I do think ...

Classroom Web logs, or blogs, many of which got their start in the last school year, are becoming increasingly popular with teachers like Mrs. Dudiak as a forum for expression for students as young as the second-grade level and in almost any subject. In the blogs, students write about how they attacked a tough math problem, post observations about their ...

I attended the World Future Society meeting in Washington, DC, as did the rest of the FI Center team a couple of weeks ago. When I was there I picked up a publication titled “From Scan to Plan” from the American Society of Association Executives, an organization that covers topics of interest to many kinds of trade, professional and volunteer ...

Is PR dead or at least on life support? Some people seem to think so. If you dig a layer or two down into the earlier post about new roles for blogs you get to some interesting links to discussions going on among journalists and media types about the state of public communications. A fella by the name of Jay ...