Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

• Obama to announce $795M in broadband grants (Post Tech) – More money for broadband deployment.
• Rethinking Open Data – O'Reilly Radar – "Once you finish the catalogue, you have to market it so that people know it exists. Not just random Internet developers, but everyone who can unlock that value. This category, 'people who can use open data in their jobs' includes researchers, startups, established businesses, other government departments, and (yes) random Internet hackers, but the category doesn't have a name and it doesn't have a Facebook group, newsletter, AGM, or any other way for you to reach them easily."
• If San Francisco Crime were Elevation (Doug McCune) – An interesting way of mapping activity.

Here’s what I found yesterday:

• The Sabbatical | design mind – "A recuperative sabbatical is the most needed and the most practical. It is often unplanned and occurs only after the “sabbatee” reaches a breaking point — brought on by a chaotic workplace atmosphere of on-demand innovation, parallel work streams‚ and always-on digital lifestyles. The pressure to constantly over-deliver under budget is causing us to lose our ability to control and channel our energy in positive ways. We’re burned out on work we once loved because we’ve run out of room for randomness, spontaneity, and serendipity — all of which are crucial to creativity and innovation. Often the only mode of repair is to desperately, suddenly take a week off (instead of quitting or running screaming from the building)."
• Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas | design mind – Johnson riffs easily on workspace concepts but, as he explains, doesn’t “actually think there are solutions to the present-day work-life dilemma! Not easy ones at least. It is too easy for me to satirize and lampoon the situations that might occur, and so I have provided methods for adopting a frantic compromise, a kind of Quick Office, built into walls or in the form of a cart that you move from room to room, pull down the shades, and become off-limits to the family.”
• The surprising truth about what motivates us (video) – Core77 – In the social benefit sector, we often think we can't compete because we can't offer enough money. We aren't emphasizing the right benefits.

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

• Beyond open data (PHILANTHROPY 2173) – "We need good data to help us tell stories. We need a lot of tools to interpret, visualize, represent, and mashup the data – and the good news is, we have these tools and many are free."
• Time to Review Workplace Reviews? (Well Blog – NYTimes.com) – I do think the issue with performance reviews is that it is so hard to them well. And, if you really want people to succeed, it needs to be an ongoing conversation. The annual dance of performance review can make that difficult.
• Get Rid of The Performance Review – I so agree with that sentiment.

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

• How Non-Profits are Using Social Media for Real Results – from Mashable.
• Reputation Management Online (Janet Fouts) – Reputation management is increasingly important. Of course, the best way is to probably just work very hard and be, as Janet says, as transparent as possible.
• Seven tips from Craig of Craigslist (Congress.org) – How to use online tools to make a difference in the world.

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

• "Privacy and Publicity in the Context of Big Data" from danah boyd – Critical to thinking about the evolving open data conversations happening in the philanthropy space (well, critical to understanding it in any space but we're talking about philanthropy and social change here so…)
• Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline (Electronic Frontier Foundation) – Critical to understand how to make decisions of services owned by others.
• How government can engage young people online (O'Reilly Radar) – "The key to bringing young people into online civic dialogues is to create places where they want to engage, said boyd." What is the role for libraries, schools, NGOs in providing those places?
• Is It Time to Abandon Facebook? (techPresident) – "To be clear, the social graph-like technology introduced last month is very cool, and it’s open; non-Facebook developers are hard at work building a more open, and reasonable, social layer that taps into the technology. But the fact remains that for many, Facebook’s implementation feels like a violation. We didn’t ask to be automatically connected to everyone, everywhere, yet now we are."
• Why Good Spreadsheets Make Bad Strategies (The Conversation) – How you use qualitative data?

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

• Elements Of Twitter Style (Red Sweater Blog) – Excellent.
• Organizing Armageddon: What We Learned From the Haiti Earthquake – "Despite the massive scale of their operations, only in recent years have the people who deliver disaster aid begun to benefit from the kind of data-driven decisionmaking and rigorous academic study that their commercial and military counterparts rely on. In the past decade, the responses to major disasters have been analyzed in hundreds of case studies and pored over by experts, their conclusions field-tested in subsequent crises where yet more data is collected. Learning the right lessons could not be more important: The stakes are literally life and death."
• Scott Brown on How Twitter + Dopamine = Better Humans | Magazine – "Our brains release congratulatory hits of dopamine when we engage in selfless behavior — which we’re moved to do the instant we witness something awful. Melissa Brown, associate director of research at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, calls this our 'immediate altruistic response.' But, she notes, the IAR impulse is easily blunted by delay: 'Generation X and the Millennials don’t want to go through the trouble of entering a 16-digit credit card number to make a $25 donation.'"

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

• Citizen-Centered Solutions: NetSquared's experience with public participation in grantmaking – Very happy to get a chance to talk with the Case Foundation's Eric Johnson about NetSquared.
• Peace Corps Devs Win Web Award for Remix Site – "The site solicits ideas, community members remix them, improving them, commenting or questioning them, endorsing them. These remixes are portable and follow both the original idea and the remixer's profile through the site. The conversations that ensue resemble nothing so much as a bunch of entrepreneurs networking and workshopping their ideas."
• OpenData – Increasing innovation and supporting Making Public Data Public – "Create and support innovative, exciting ideas and applications using Ordnance Survey mapping."

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

• Constructive Disruption Can Drive Social Change (Microsoft On The Issues) – "But today’s technologies have potential to do much more – the potential for “constructive disruption” that enables nonprofits to achieve dramatically greater impact through new business and service models."
• OpenGov APIs: Interfacing with Open Government (Gov 2.0) – "Standards for open data and APIs will make it easier for developers to build things – an app that works for one municipality can work for others if both adhere to a common standard that the app can run against. But they’ll also make it easier for governments to open up their data – standards will offer governments assurance that the time and effort they expend to maintain and publish data or stand up APIs will provide the most return on investment."
• Crowdsourcing #SOCIALMEDIA NONPROFIT tweet | Janet Fouts – a book of twitter sized tips and tricks. from a variety of experts.
• Ford Foundation Grants to Aid Art Spaces and Housing (NYTimes.com) – "In addition to helping arts groups build new spaces and renovate and expand old ones, the latest initiative aims to encourage the construction of affordable housing for artists in or around some of these spaces and to spur economic development in their surrounding areas. Mr. Ubiñas said that during his travels around the country he had been astonished when he would visit an arts organization and find that 'all around it have developed whole neighborhoods — of artists and their families, of businesses that cater to them, of diverse people who want to live in a thriving community.'"

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

• Apps 4 Ben's –
• Google Fiber for Communities: Think big with a gig – "Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We'll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people."
• USAID Online Event March 29-31, 2010 (Jayne Blog) – "Now, there's another way to get involved with USAID, via their three day Global Pulse 2010, March 29 – 31, 2010. The goal is to bring together individual socially-engaged participants and organizations from around the world. The feedback generated during the event will inform U.S. foreign assistance and diplomatic strategies on major themes and ideas."

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

• The Future of the Library: Urban Mediaspace – GOOD Blog – GOOD – Interesting stuff.
• Chile earthquake relief: Cellphone donations struggle compared to Haiti / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com –
• Omidyar Network awards $100K to NewsTrust to separate wheat from chaff – San Francisco Business Times: –