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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I also gave a plenary talk at AFP in San Antonio, Texas. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review.

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

The Verge

And my mother used to say that she was going to donate my brain to Harvard Medical School as a completely unused human organ. But then we built it into the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and it’s now spent $54 billion to provide access for poor kids to the internet in their classroom. Maybe you can tell me a little bit about those shoes.