Bayer Launches Pinterest Boards About Healthcare, Nutrition, High-tech Materials

April 19th 2012 Comments Off

Stephanie Baum (Philadelphia, PA) – Social photo-sharing platform Pinterest has skyrocketed in popularity due to users passionate about topics like fashion and food. But now, “Big Pharma” companies are also beginning to use Pinterest to speak to their audiences. Bayer Corporation established a presence on Pinterest in recent weeks in a sign that pharmaceutical companies are ... Read more »

Chicago-Based CrowdSpring Powers Free Creative Work For Nonprofits

April 18th 2012 Comments Off

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — Even when a successful nonprofit takes in a lot of money, much of it is earmarked for carrying out their main mission. Things like advertising, design work, and other activities, while valuable, are expendable if funds are limited. Now, a creative services company is helping them, pro bono. Crowdspring- a for-profit ... Read more »

Lonely Planet: NASA Needs Your Best Ideas About Exploring Mars

April 17th 2012 1 Comment

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 »

Microsoft Announces Charity Fashion Show “Geek 2 Chic: LA” Benefiting The Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship

April 16th 2012 Comments Off

Mark Drapeau (Los Angeles, CA) — Today, I’m in southern California preparing for the latest installment of Microsoft Public Sector’s charity fashion show in partnership with Bloomingdale’s called “Geek 2 Chic.” This event is Geek 2 Chic: Los Angeles and its happening on May 10th at Bloomingdale’s Santa Monica. I am the executive producer of ... Read more »

Real-World Civic Innovation Through Online Gaming: A Collaboration Between CURE and ToonUps

April 12th 2012 1 Comment

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — When you think of “games,” you might think of Gears of War for Xbox, or Angry Birds for iPhone, or perhaps Zynga games for Facebook. But increasingly, people working in the public and civic sectors see value in leveraging games and game mechanics to accomplish real-world change. In that vein, ... Read more »

What You Need To Know About TEDMED 2012

April 10th 2012 1 Comment

Chris Seper (Cleveland, OH) — What is TEDMED? That’s an odd question, if you’re coming from the perspective the event has been around for years. But this is not last year’s TEDMED (it’s not as heavily associated with the thought-leadership series TED as you may think). Last year, Priceline.com founder Jay Walker bought TEDMED ... Read more »

Is Gainesville the Silicon Valley of the Southeast?

April 10th 2012 1 Comment

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) – At the University of Florida – perhaps best known for its championship Gators football teams – innovation isn’t the first thing on people’s minds. But that football team famously invented what you now know as Gatorade. And now they’re building Innovation Square, which they hope spearheads their town of Gainesville into ... Read more »

Navy Launches Public Wargame About U.S. Energy Crisis

April 6th 2012 1 Comment

Mark Drapeau (Washington, DC) — In May 2012, the U.S. Navy will launch a week-long multiplayer online wargame in order to tackle America’s energy crisis as a national security issue. This effort is being spearheaded by the Department of Innovation of the Office of Naval Research (ONR), an academic-oriented applied research facility based on the ... Read more »
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