Where do we find good resources?
At Framework, we are avid learners. We read popular blogs and websites such as Social Finance, The Mesh, Mashable, and Open Data. We also search for magazine or trade journals that focus on a variety of topics. Topics such as change management (CIO Magazine), technology (TechCrunch), nonprofit management (Standford Social Innovation Review) and philanthropy (The Philanthropist).
When long-haul flights allow, we read longer format books by any author who is thinking about our increasingly unpredictable world (e.g. The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramos).
When long-haul flights allow, we read longer format books by any author who is thinking about our increasingly unpredictable world (e.g. The Age of the Unthinkable, Joshua Cooper Ramos).
A Few Recent Good Reads
Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity. McKinsery Global Institute. May 2011 “Simply making big data more easily accessible to relavant stakeholders in a timely manner can create tremendous value”
Convergence: Five Trends that will Reshapte the Social Sector. Heather Gowdy, Alex Hilderbrand, David Piana, Melissa Campos. The James Irvine Foundation “Demographic shifts redefine participation, technological advances abound, networks enable work to be organized in new ways, interest in civic engagement is rising, sector boundaries are blurring”
Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Serices: Don Drummond. February 2012. www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/reformcommission/
Imagine: How Creativity Works. Lehrer, John. “When ideas are shared, the possibilities do not add up, they multiply”
Innovation is Not the Holy Grail. Stanford Social Innovation Review. By Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair. Fall 2012. “Innovation is often perceived as a development shortcut; thus innovation becomes overrated. The tremendous value that is created by incremental improvements to the core, routine activities of social sector orgnanizations gets sidelined”
ICT and Women: Recruiting and Retaining Women to Work in the ICT Industry. Denise Shortt and Kelly O’Neill. Information Technology Association of Canada. December 2009
Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century. Cathy Davidson. “Unlearning is required [when] circumstances in your world have changed so completely that your old habits now hold you back”
The Future of the Internet & Big Data. Pew Institute Janna Qunitney and Lee Rainie “Underlying analytica machinery will still require human cognition and curation to connect the dots and see the big picture”
The Mesh: How the future of business is sharing. Lisa Gransky. “The Mesh is reshaping how we go to market, who we partner with, and how we invite participation and engage [people]”
The Real-Time Web and its Future. Edited by Marshall Kirkpatrick. ReadWriteWeb “With the right education, tools and compelling use cases, most will find real-time web useful, and few will find it purely overwhelming”
2012 Occupational Outlook Handbook. US Department of Labour. Released March 2012
NotforProfit Drive to Outcome Framework. PricewatershouseCoopers. August 2008 Scott Fitsimmons and Adam Jagelewski. “We should stop writing reports documenting the problems with granting and reporting”
What’s Mine is Yours. The Rise of Collaborative Consuption. Rachek Botsman and Roo Rogers. “$100 billion dollar sharing economy – extracting value out of stuff we already have.”
What’s Next for Philanthropy: Acting Bigger and Adapting Better in a Networked World. Katherine Fulton, Barbara Kibbe. “Philanthropy today takes place in a context that is radically different from the environment in which many of its current practices and behavious were developed.”
Women in IT: The Facts. Catherine Ashcraft and Sarah Blithe. National Centre for Women & Information Technology. “If current trends continue, by 2018 the information technology industry will only be able to fill half its available jobs”
Convergence: Five Trends that will Reshapte the Social Sector. Heather Gowdy, Alex Hilderbrand, David Piana, Melissa Campos. The James Irvine Foundation “Demographic shifts redefine participation, technological advances abound, networks enable work to be organized in new ways, interest in civic engagement is rising, sector boundaries are blurring”
Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Serices: Don Drummond. February 2012. www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/reformcommission/
Imagine: How Creativity Works. Lehrer, John. “When ideas are shared, the possibilities do not add up, they multiply”
Innovation is Not the Holy Grail. Stanford Social Innovation Review. By Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair. Fall 2012. “Innovation is often perceived as a development shortcut; thus innovation becomes overrated. The tremendous value that is created by incremental improvements to the core, routine activities of social sector orgnanizations gets sidelined”
ICT and Women: Recruiting and Retaining Women to Work in the ICT Industry. Denise Shortt and Kelly O’Neill. Information Technology Association of Canada. December 2009
Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century. Cathy Davidson. “Unlearning is required [when] circumstances in your world have changed so completely that your old habits now hold you back”
The Future of the Internet & Big Data. Pew Institute Janna Qunitney and Lee Rainie “Underlying analytica machinery will still require human cognition and curation to connect the dots and see the big picture”
The Mesh: How the future of business is sharing. Lisa Gransky. “The Mesh is reshaping how we go to market, who we partner with, and how we invite participation and engage [people]”
The Real-Time Web and its Future. Edited by Marshall Kirkpatrick. ReadWriteWeb “With the right education, tools and compelling use cases, most will find real-time web useful, and few will find it purely overwhelming”
2012 Occupational Outlook Handbook. US Department of Labour. Released March 2012
NotforProfit Drive to Outcome Framework. PricewatershouseCoopers. August 2008 Scott Fitsimmons and Adam Jagelewski. “We should stop writing reports documenting the problems with granting and reporting”
What’s Mine is Yours. The Rise of Collaborative Consuption. Rachek Botsman and Roo Rogers. “$100 billion dollar sharing economy – extracting value out of stuff we already have.”
What’s Next for Philanthropy: Acting Bigger and Adapting Better in a Networked World. Katherine Fulton, Barbara Kibbe. “Philanthropy today takes place in a context that is radically different from the environment in which many of its current practices and behavious were developed.”
Women in IT: The Facts. Catherine Ashcraft and Sarah Blithe. National Centre for Women & Information Technology. “If current trends continue, by 2018 the information technology industry will only be able to fill half its available jobs”
