anything but small talk

thevirtualschool:

Make a difference in online education for all:

                     Help us build the Virtual School for learners around the world!

This goes to all educators out there on the web who are passionate about teaching their subject: We need your help to achieve our goal of equalising access to excellent education.

Are you interested? Just contact us @ bronwen.mcconkey@fusion-universal.com and request more info about how to participate - it’s easy and we would be happy to work with you, independent of if you represent a school, a department or just yourself as a teacher.

piscuk:

Over the past several months, hundreds of teams from all over the world have submitted stunning geo-models for our Google Model Your Town Competition. These examples of pure 3D civic pride are breathtaking to behold. Difficult as it was, the SketchUp team managed to pick six finalists, after which we asked the general public to vote for their favorite collection of models. Tens of thousands of you weighed in, and the talented team from the north of Spain were victorious.Zorionak! (That’s “Congratulations!” in Basque.)

pitchinvasion:

Excellent background on the German model of fan ownership from Supporters Direct.

ParticipateDB is a collaborative catalogue for online tools for participation (often referred to as tools for web-based engagement, online participation, e-participation, e-consultation, online dialogue, online deliberation etc.).

The site aims to build a comprehensive guide to the many online tools for public participation and related forms of citizen engagement — large and small, commercial and open source, mature and experimental — as well as the context in which they are being applied.

storyboard:

Fuck Yeah Fuckyeah Blogs

No one really knows why the “Fuck Yeah X” blog phenomenon became so popular — nor why it’s still going very strong in terms of raw numbers. As for ultimate beginnings, conventional wisdom points to the pop-culture longevity of “America, Fuck Yeah” from the soundtrack to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 2004 flick Team America: World Police, but there’s no real evidence beyond the circumstantial to support this conclusion. Only a few mainstream media outlets dared cover the trend due to the profanity in the name (may we suggest “fudge yeah” as a workaround?).

Coincidentally, the bloggers behind Fuck Yeah Menswear were yesterday (allegedly) prematurely revealed as Kevin Burrows and Lawrence Schlossman (the latter running the non-fuckyeah Tumblr How to Talk to Girls at Parties); they have a book releasing this fall. So on Tumblr, where did the fuckyeah blogs really come from, and what are people fuckyeahing about these days?

ciphanet:

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ilovecharts:

Stay in school, kids.

"Only the great generalizations survive."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)

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ilovecharts:

Consumer Goods

ilovecharts:

If you’re curious where you stand you can take the test here. Pretty interesting stuff.