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[perezium]

NOTE: I did not write this, I am merely preserving it for my own posterity. I very much valued Adam’s contributions to Heroku, and I am very impressed by this.

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## Make it real Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discussions around concrete examples,...

[ibmconsulting]

It can be hard to get a big, slow company to change its ways. It’s the efforts of courageous intrapreneurs that can change their trajectory. The key is to make your company a place where intrapreneurs can thrive.

Multinational corporations aren’t always known for their agility. Organizational change, product evolution, or rebranding—just some of the many ways in which a business has the potential to flex and move—can be laborious undertakings for companies with millions of stakeholders spread far and wide around the world.

But lately, leading companies are taking a page from the startup book and are beginning to leverage entrepreneurial approaches to drive business value. Dubbed “intrapreneurship” by early adopters, this trend highlights the value of people—the “intrapreneurs”—working from within a company who are accelerating change while continuing to drive business benefits. Economic constraints are forcing even large, established companies to act in a manner akin to the startup phase of much younger organizations; they’re leveraging the creativity and passion of their people to become more dynamic, more innovative, and more agile.

[mparks-blog]

A graphic of the debt that’s actually useful. Take notes, CNN.

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[thenextweb]

Geektivism is what geeks do when they are fed up with the current status of their environment. Drawing from their resources, they find ways to tackle problems in a creative and engaging way (of course this usually involves games…). In our search for geektivists, we came across five new projects that can really make a difference. Both trying to solve important problems, they turned to gaming and technology to inspire people and help them do something, rather than just complain or click on a form.

[smithevan]

Good example of real world use of virtual world tech...Real-world train station virtualized for work back in 2010.

[mparks-blog]

If you're like us, you're obsessed with Pinterest. You get excited when you find pictures you love and pin them to your online bulletin boards with a sense of pride that they are yours. With so many photos on the two-year-old social scrapbooking site -- and countless more added each day -- it...

[mparks-blog]

[caption id="attachment_672" align="aligncenter" width="643" caption="Strongbox West PHP User Group Meetup"][/caption] Really enjoyed the January 2012 meetup of the Atlanta PHP User Group...held on January 19th at Strongbox West. This was a joint meeting with the Atlanta MongoDB user group and the presenter was Richard Kreuter who gave an entertaining and informative talk on the fundamentals of MongoDB. Interesting to learn that MongoDB is the database used by both Craigslist and Foursquare...who knew? The sponsor for this meetup, 10Gen.com, provided much appreciated pizza and chicken strips as well as MongoDB coffee cup swag for all attendees. Before the meeting I hung out as usual at MidCity Cafe on West Peachtree where the feature is 1/2 price pints from 4 to 7pm was in effect! Looking forward to February's meetup!  

[thenextweb]

(via What are People Doing Online?)

[mparks-blog]

[courtenaybird]

Facebook execs explain that while the previous profile was like a five-minute conversation between acquaintances, Timeline is like meeting a friend for drinks and spilling your soul until the bar lights flicker for closing time.

With Timeline, Facebook Bids To Reinvent The Social Biography  (via courtenaybird)

[mparks-blog]

[mparks-blog]

Fellini's pizza on a Sunday evening!

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