The Forbes Impact 30 List. The commons law project: A vision of green governance. Republished from David Bollier: (the original has links to the source material) “For the past two years or more, I’ve been working on a major research and writing project to try to recover from the mists of history the bits and pieces of what might be called “commons law” (not to be confused with common law).
Commons law consists of those social practices, cultural traditions and specific bodies of formal law that recognize the rights of commoners to manage their own resources. Most of these governance traditions deal with natural resources such as farmland, forests, fisheries, water and wild game. Commons law has existed in many forms, and in many cultures, over millennia. Ever since the rise of the nation-state and especially industrialized markets, however, commons law has been marginalized if not eclipsed by contemporary forms of market-based law. It has been, I concede, an ambitious enterprise. Facebook Meets College Apps with Mission Admission. Teaching Strategies By Nathan Maton Games and Facebook: We know those are two sure-fire ways of getting kids’ attention.
Combine them, and you might have a tool to motivate low-income high-schoolers to apply to college. That’s the premise, anyway, for launching Mission Admission — to help students who don’t know what steps to take to get in the college application game. “These kids didn’t know what kinds of classes they should be spending their time on or basic vocabulary like what is a letter of recommendation,” said Tracy Fullerton, a USC professor and the lead game designer on the Mission Admission project about students she worked with, during a seminar at the recent SXSW conference. The process of applying for college is already a game, Fullerton says. The process of applying for college is already a game. In Mission Admission, you play a different student every week applying for the same school. Good for Nothing event May 2011. Inventive. CatalystMAP - cotw.cc. List of the Top 30 Social Entrepreneurs. Coalition of the Willing - cotw.cc. General Assembly Provides Entrepreneurial Skills To A Chosen Few.
12 Gamification Platforms And The Start Of A $1.6B Industry » Technology And Online Audience. A major sign of the explosive growth that lies ahead for gamification, or making a non-game application more engaging by adding game-like features, is the packaging of game mechanics as an off-the-shelf solution by several emerging gamification platform vendors.
Gamification technology has just been democratized. As marketers and software developers rush to tap into the increased engagement, fun, and loyalty of gamification, M2 Research predicts that this emerging space will generate $1.6B in revenue by 2015. Only a few months ago gamification was the province of a few mega-sensations like Foursquare and Zynga. Now it can be plugged into your website or app via licensing a third-party engine, widgets and APIs without writing a single line of code. Discover and visit some of the leading vendors in this emerging market in the running list below: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) iActionable 10.) 11.) 12.) Game on. OneSocialWeb - Creating a free, open, and decentralized social networking platform.
Get a coffee, give a coffee - Jonathan's Card. About Jonathan's Card Hi!
I'm Jonathan Stark. You can download this picture of my Starbucks card to your phone and buy coffee at Starbucks with it. Seriously. My card gets charged, you don't. If you're feeling generous, you can also add money to my Starbucks card by doing this and enjoy some serious good karma. Jonathan's Card is an experiment in social sharing of physical goods using digital currency on mobile phones. Based on the similarity to the "take a penny, leave a penny" trays at convenience stores in the US, I've adopted a similar "get a coffee, give a coffee" terminology for Jonathan's Card. As it turns out, this is actually a new take on a wonderful old italian custom called Caffe Pagato, which translates to English as "Coffee Paid".
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