Favorite Blogs Shortlist

Fellow Members, feel free to add more: 

• Nextbillion.net - of course! Managed and edited by our very own Francisco Noguera
  
• Social Entrepreneurship.Change.org 
  
• YPFP.org -young professionals in foreign policy discussion group
• Financial Crisis Blog [need link]

And some online magazines too: 

• GOOD Magazine-- an awesome magazine to make the world a better place. Got to love their videos too! Check out this one on Design that Matters' Kinkajou microfilm projector! 
  
• Fast Company--innovation moves quickly, so you better keep up. 
• Inc-- the daily resource for entrepreneurs
• Harvard Business Review- sign up for "Management Tip of the Day" 
• Stanford Social Innovation Review-- strategies, tools, and ideas

Link Roll Call!

Links to things we talked about tonight: 

• Business Fights Poverty-- international network for professionals passionate about fighting world poverty through good business.
  
• Inspiris-- UK consulting firm to use business to fight poverty. (Alexis consults for them)
• World Bank Institute-- the Bank Group’s principal provider of learning activitie (Alexis works for them!) 
• Echo Ditto-- leveraging social media and connecting technologies as a vehicle for affecting positive change around the world. (Sophie used to work for them!) 
• Frontier Strategy Group-- enhancing for-profit companies' effectiveness in emerging markets (Sopie works for them right now!) 
• NextBillion.net-- online platform to explore connections between development and enterprise. 
• Design for Social Entrepreneurship-- advanced studio at the Rhode Island School of Design exploring the role of designers in social entrepreneurship. (developed and taught by me) There's a blog here too
• IDEO- our favorite design consultancy :-) 
• Design that Matters-- (DtM) developing products addressing basic needs in developing countries. (I used to work here!) 
• Pecha Kucha- a new form of social power pointing. 
• John Griffin Consulting- the consulting group that re-strategizes organizations. (link needed) 

Changing Design/ Designing Change

An article I wrote for RISD's alumni publication discussing the shifting role of design, designers, and our potential to create planned change: 

There are many good definitions of “design,” which have been expanding, shifting, sifting and most of all changing rapidly, along with the rest of the world. But how is industrial design, in particular, changing, and what is happening both at RISD and within the design profession itself?...

Click here to read the entire article.