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In Brief
News and Items of Interest from January
Great Resources
An accessible Web page design curriculum is available from Knowbility, a nonprofit that promotes barrier-free information technology.
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Net Impact, a network of emerging business leaders committed to using the power of business to create a better world, provides a greater member-generated resource area including case studies and curricula.
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Sector Crossroads
A recent report, entitled "After the Bubble" and supported by the Flatiron Foundation and the Atlantic Philanthropies, gives an excellent analysis of how nonprofits can--or cannot--use the Internet as a revenue-producing tool.
Copy of the report (as a PDF) available from techrocks.org >>
A new survey from the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute Initiative for Social Innovation reveals an increasing number of MBA programs recognize the relevance of social and environmental stewardship.
More from beyondgreypinstripes.org >>
Learning Tools and Models
An article in Learning Circuits focuses on the stories of five "long distance leaders" to draw conclusions about effective leadership in our virtual age.
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First Monday features a very solid article examining two of the dichotomies at the center of debates about online learning: information acquisition vs. knowledge construction and student-centered vs. teacher-centered learning.
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Elliot Masie offers his view of Micosoft's X-Box as a potential learning tool in a recent edition of TechLearn TRENDS.
More from masie.com >>
Organizational Effectiveness
A recent research article at Charity Village suggests that, as organizations are "challenged to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of their programs, and to be accountable to managers, funding agencies and taxpayers," the program logic model can be an effective tool.
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An excerpt from The Discipline of Virtual Teams by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith appears in the Drucker Foundation's Leader to Leader (Number 22, Fall 2001).
More from pfdf.org >>
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