The sessions from the DPLA Plenary meeting on April 27 in SF are now online. More information about DPLA West can be found online at [link]. Folks from the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and the Berkman Center worked long and hard to create a prototype software platform for the DPLA in time for this event. I was interim head of the project MORE >>

Last month, toward the end of an on-stage conversation at Wired’s Disruptive by Design Conference , Mark Andreesen (he of the Mosaic browser , giant venture fund , and shiny, egg-shaped pate ), unleashed a corker. The smart phone revolution, he said, is under-hyped. Techno-bluster? Maybe not. mobile phones sold that year. mobile-phone sales.” MORE >>

I will be presenting a free webinar on June 14 at 11am US EDT, organized by Ketchum’s Global Media Network. Webinar details are here or you can register directly here. In the wake of the launch of my book Getting Results From Crowds , one of the fields I am spending the most time on is crowdsourcing for marketing. Idea generation. MORE >>

Note from Beth: I have the honor of leading a “Networked NGO Training” in Delhi for grantees of the Packard Foundation and have lined up some guest posts to supplement my reports from India. The Collective Impact of Love guest post by Stefan Lanfer,  Barr Foundation. The Barr Fellowship is certainly a well-deserved “Thank you!” MORE >>

Feeling green with envy? If it's the right type of envy, maybe it's no bad thing. We all know about the destructive forces that envy can unleash because it's. ".a hostile emotion that often prompts aggressive behaviors. van de Ven et al., 2011). This is the type that makes us want to strike out at the other person and bring them down a peg or two. MORE >>