Nonprofit job site OpportunityKnocks.org has posted the 2008 edition of its Nonprofit Retention and Vacancy Report (found via Philanthropy Journal), with an equal mix of good news and bad. The good news: Their survey of nonprofits found an average turnover rate of 21 percent, less than half of the average turnover rate for the aggregated […]
Archives for March 2008
GyPSiis and caravanserai
Emerging mobile phone software and social network systems like GyPSii are creating new ways for mobile folks to find their friends and leave their mark. GyPSii lets you record places and events from your daily life with text and photos from your mobile device, then ”geotag” that content so it appears on a digital map. […]
Invoking the ‘C’ word with a vengeance
The state of Oklahoma is working to reframe itself as the ”state of creativity” with a significant public relations, project positioning, and on-line effort to make their point. The Oklahoma Creativity Project, launched last month, works to get the now-ascendant ”C” word to the front-of-mind of citizens, legislators, and business leaders both inside and outside […]
Some arts leaders could use this kind of play
An interesting series on NPR explored the structure, purpose, and benefits of various forms of play among young children (more on Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills and Creative Play Makes for Kids in Control, including audio of the stories, available on-line). The premise is that structured playtime, and highly specialized toys, do less to develop […]
The positive power of ignorance
The Online Spin blog points us to this University of Iowa research project on consumer knowledge and satisfaction. According to their experiments, consumers are often happier with their choice when they know less about what it is they bought. Says lead researcher Dhananjay Nayakankuppam: ”We found that once people commit to buying or consuming something, […]