Ars Technica

APRIL 8, 2025

Enthusiasm was understandably high for Daredevil: Born Again , Marvel's revival of the hugely popular series in the Netflix Defenders universe. Some spoilers for the series below, but no major reveals beyond the opening events of the first episode.)

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 17, 2013

How would you describe the collective culture of your nonprofit organization? With so many areas to focus on - marketing, fundraising, services and more - it is easy to overlook what is right in front of us: culture. If you are thinking, “who cares about culture” or “how is this relevant to my bottom line,” I’ll tell you how.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 15, 2024

We’re committed to helping social impact organizations develop robust, evidence-based approaches to boost their fundraising efforts and volunteer programs, including through the Blackbaud Institute and Blackbaud University. It’s critical to create culturally relevant programs that speak to the unique experiences of different communities.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

A big part of our vision is to be a window on the language, and the people, and the culture, says CEO and cofounder Lea Perret, who dreamed up the company with cofounder and COO Julien Frei. Today, the company remains profitable, but 6pm in Paris is here to fill a gap that Coucou couldnt: to help people immerse themselves in French culture.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The organizations culture of philanthropy (or lack thereof). neurology, pediatrics, or oncology at a hospital; agriculture, engineering, or sciences at a university). As their time draws to a close, and the donors body language is more and more open, staff promise to draft some proposals to which they can put numbers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Unlike most of the dime-a-dozen NFT projects churning out digital avatars, Superplastic developed its characters and fictional universe up front rather than tacking it on (or promising to tack it on ) after cashing in on the speculative craze driving astronomical prices on OpenSea.

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

As the project manager for Crisis Cleanup , an open source collaborative work order management platform, Aaron has helped connect more than 230 organizations and 40,000 volunteers to more than 11,000 families needing assistance after 15 disasters in four countries, producing an astonishing $26 million in value for disaster survivors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 20, 2019

What is risk culture? “.staff Such a culture supports an open discussion about uncertainties and opportunities, encourages staff to express concerns, and maintains processes to elevate concerns to appropriate levels.”. There’s a hush-hush culture regarding risk and failure. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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The Next Web

MARCH 7, 2014

Ilya Pozin is the founder of Open Me and Ciplex and is a columnist for Inc, Forbes & LinkedIn. Plants in the office are part of something University of Michigan psychologists Rachel and Stephen Kaplan call “attention restoration theory.”. Fill your office with plants. Can a little greenery boost your productivity?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Some are working on reinvention: Huntsville , the Alabama town famous for its history with NASAs rocketry program, has remarketed itself as a music, arts, and cultural destination; while Hilliard , an Ohio city of less than 40,000 in the Columbus area, continues to build out infrastructure to incubate innovative startups. Ford Motor Co.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Grambling State University is a public, historically Black university in Grambling, Louisiana. Grambling State University is a member-school of the University of Louisiana System and Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Grambling also advances the study and preservation of African American history, art, and culture. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

“I started the business in my last year of university and, of course, back then we didn’t have any video streaming services,” he said. One of the things translators need to do when working on shows is to keep the original intent of the creator in languages with different colloquialisms or cultural nuances.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

My experiences in the firm have been focused on design on a global scale, practicing in different locations around the world, working with different cultures, different climates. I had stepped in on building a lot of our work around our people and culture. My background is definitely heavy in design and design-oriented technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

To find the right people, be curious and open. Or, maybe you’re looking for more of an amplification of what you’re already posting, as is the University of Chicago’s Alumni Association …. … Be open and clear about why this matters. See what your board or staff members, donors and volunteers are up to on social media.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 17, 2022

Bureau of Labor Statistics latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary, employment openings increased to record levels in March, reaching 11.549 million vacancies. The number of job openings has been on the rise since the pandemic and continues to outpace the rate of new hires. According to the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. open source design or DIY manufacturing) to create customized products in small batches and the global reach of the Internet to sell them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2018

A Culture of Wellbeing as a New Nonprofit Strength: Building Capacity During a Time of Disruption – guest post by Heather McLeod Grant, Adene Sacks, & Kate Wilkinson. Heather McLeod Grant is the cofounder of Open Impact, a social impact advising firm, who has 25 years of experience working with social change leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

O , he says, stands for open. If you don’t have an open environment inside your company or country, these new tools will blow you wide open. panel on “The innovation culture: Four Entrepreneurs’ Perspective,” in talking about her views on the Silicon Valley culture. Is this what we want to strive for?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2012

But the culture I grew up in is different than the culture I adopted in my early twenties, and for the first time, I got to be among many others who''d made that same choice--or something like it. And somehow, knowing that, being in Oakland opened up the possibilities. I finally wasn''t alone anymore!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Not only do you need to be listening and taking action, but as an organization, you need to have a culture that supports collaboration. Your capacity for change and the opportunities to collaborate are visible through open communication and public information. Another barrier is the idea that we are all so different.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

OneWebDay opens up techie conversations to everyone. Help Universal Giving Bring the Web to the Developing World. A day of on and offline events spanning the globe celebrating the Web. This year’s theme is One Web. bringing attention to issues and work on digital inclusion. Perform an Internet Health Check. About OneWebDay.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Following its 2023 unveiling of two of the largest quantum computers ever made, IBM expanded and upgraded its cloud quantum service and its open-source Qiskit quantum software platform in 2024. And in October, the company opened its first global quantum data center outside the U.S., in Ehningen, Germany.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

EdSights uses AI chatbots to help colleges and universities identify students who might be at risk of dropping out, in part by increasing student engagement. On average, universities that use EdSights see a 4% increase in student retention, with some citing rates as high as 14%.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Open Standards. Even if APIs require a greater level of effort than is immediately possible, putting data in XML with open schemas and good descriptions would enable outside organizations to do interesting things with the data. It is a challenge, trying to change the orientation of government toward a new culture of sharing data.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The fourth, Atrium Health Lake Normal Hospital in Cornelius, North Carolina, opens in 2025, while the fifth, Carolinas Medical Center Critical Care Tower, has just completed its framing. The formerly decaying multilevel parking garage now contains restaurants, retail, and a sprawling series of open-air gathering spaces.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

At the same time we have several culturally-driven attitudes holding us back. We have three universities in the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking for engineering and technology. The Netherlands remains open for business. So is the Dutch tech startup story sold short? Not in my view. So let’s take stock: What do we offer?

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

My law partner, Anita Koumriqian , recently talked with Lanie Denslow , a cultural competence and business protocol consultant who helps companies and professionals navigate cultural differences in today’s complex, fast-moving and global business environment. Image Credits: Joanna Buniak / Sophie Alcorn (opens in a new window).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

The combined disruptions of these phenomena are affecting business structures, organizational cultures, and processes. Facades of professionalism and efforts at contrived camaraderie in the name of culture building will be viewed as disingenuous. This requires a willingness to be open and embrace personal vulnerability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2009

Source: Robotson on Flickr I don't know about you, but I am a big fan of open standards, particularly when my bladder Direct Messages me with the hashtag #urgent. Open standards (see picture above) guide me to a place where I can @reply in a hurry. Open data is a powerful force that can drive both collaboration and innovation.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Arts and cultural organizations are the sources of some of our favorite DipJar stories. Today’s story comes from the small but mighty state of Rhode Island, where The Gamm Theatre has been providing great cultural programming for almost 40 years. Arts, culture, and performance are all personal passions for her.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Kellogg Foundation This resource helps answer a key question on many leaders’ minds: How can leaders and companies create a culture that embodies a feeling of inclusion and a sense of belonging for all employees? Kellogg Foundation in partnership with the University of New Mexico This report examines how W.K.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is managed by the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in partnership with the DMU Centre for Social Action and Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre. This point underlies all of the best practices and organizational culture required for successful community-driven social impact work.

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Bloomerang

JULY 15, 2021

It’s a universal trait displayed across peoples and cultures throughout the world, and it’s only recently that anyone has even tried to counterbalance its potential negative impact on the workplace. Keep channels open for ideas to reach management about how to better consider religious needs.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2024

Universities across the globe face challenges with successful digital transformation and what it means for their fundraising and alumni data, legacy systems, data literacy, and access to skills. The goal is to make it easier to act upon the vast amounts of data these institutions have. It cannot and should not be all about fundraising.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In high-performing, flexible organizations, this openness to productive change–inclusion–becomes the status quo,” write Scott Nielsen and Helena Huang in the National Civic Review. Jen Nation is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

An open letter to companies planning online communities | Community Building – I love this "open letter" from Martin Reed at CommunitySpark – it touches on so many "cultural" and infrastructure needs that organizations should think about BEFORE creating an online community space.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. Skill-sharing free schools.

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