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Six Ways Evangelists Can Promote Like Sports Illustrated Supermodel Kate Upton

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – Recently, I wrote an essay about how the open government movement could do a better job of engaging mainstream media, and more specifically how the simultanous Transparency Camp and White House Correspondents Dinner weekend could make better connections. One criticism of this is that the WHCD is too focused on celebrities, ... Read more »
Celebrities, Cheeky Geeky, Gadgets and Mobile, Government, Leadership, Movies, Photos, Politics, Social Software
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Injured In Space: NASA Needs Cheap, Light, Simple Medical Devices

Brandon Glenn (Cleveland, OH) – Astronauts can encounter lots of potential health risks during long space flights. And those risks are exacerbated by a lack of access to physicians, limited medical supplies and a small amount of storage on spacecrafts. Add to that high costs – it takes $10,000 to launch one pound of anything ... Read more »
Biotechnology, Defense, Gadgets and Mobile, Government, Laboratories and Research, Space
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Free Microsoft Cloud Computing For University Scientists

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – Microsoft and Internet2 have announced a new agreement enabling member universities to take advantage of Windows Azure to open up collaborative, instructional and research opportunities in the cloud. The announcement was made at the recent Spring 2012 Internet2 Member Meeting in Arlington, VA. This agreement is a significant ... Read more »
Academia, Cloud Computing, Government, Laboratories and Research, Leadership, Real Impact, Why Microsoft
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Lonely Planet: NASA Needs Your Best Ideas About Exploring Mars

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — Due to severe budget cutbacks, NASA’s Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr. has instructed a number of his senior administrators to “lead a reformulation of the Mars Exploration Program” in order to continue space exploration on a budget. To do that, NASA is sponsoring a June, 2012 workshop in Houston to ... Read more »
Government, Laboratories and Research, Open Solutions
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Young Entrepreneurs And Leaders Innovating The Rust Belt

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – Typically, when you see a story in the mainstream media about innovators, entrepreneurs, and thinkers, it’s about someone on the east or west coast, and within that in a few cities like New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. But the April 2012 issue of Details magazine (of all places) has ... Read more »
Cars, Civic Hacking, Entrepreneurship, Fashion, Government, Real Impact, Retail
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Gamification Of The Next Generation

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — In the media, we mostly read about how gaming is damaging how students learn and pay attention, how the cloud is mainly useful for things like movies and music, and how smartphones are useful for playing games like Angry Birds. But the reality is that while many new innovations can ... Read more »
Apps, Cloud Computing, Education, Entrepreneurship, Events, Gadgets and Mobile, Gaming, Government, Health, Leadership, Movies, Music, Real Impact
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Should Governments Crowdsource Science Research Funding?

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — Recently, I wrote about the trials and tribulations of social networks focused on scientific researchers. I painted a fairly dim picture. Some people disagreed with me at the Huffington Post and other places. Nevertheless, it is clear that there are those in the scientific community who are interested in disruptive ... Read more »
Academia, Citizen 2.0, Government, Health, Laboratories and Research, Social Software
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Rahm Emanuel Launches Chicago “Early College” STEM High Schools

  Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — Rahm Emanuel, flanked by executives from five large technology companies, announced the formation of five innovative “early college STEM schools,” which are six-year high schools focused on preparing students for a modern, information-laden, tech-savvy future workforce. Students will also have the opportunity to be “first in line” for interviews with the ... Read more »
Corporate Citizenship, Education, Government, Real Impact, Why Microsoft
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