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Why Amazon’s Grocery Store May Not Be the Future of Retail

Harvard Business

Starting in the mid-1990s, RFID was expected to transform inventory control by using electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. But the tags never took off, because their cost was never offset by sufficient benefits. It also promised to obviate the need for manual barcode scanning at checkouts.

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What Amazon’s HQ2 Wish List Signals About the Future of Cities

Harvard Business

The city that lands this historic deal will see its economic and physical landscape transformed, albeit for a hefty price tag in the form of tax breaks. Amazon is also signaling very clearly and publicly what the market demands for modern, state-of-the-urban economic development going forward. Connected and sustainable placemaking.

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What are we compaining about?

The Nonprofit Consultant

According to a new report from the Urban Institute, the growth of the nonprofit sector has outpaced the growth of the economy over the past decade. Get more information from the Urban Institute's web site. Tags: Urban Institute sector research Nonprofit report economy. So why are we always whining about needing more?

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Change One Thing

The Nonprofit Consultant

Ben wrote an email to Scottish singer-songwriter (and YouTuber) Peri Urban telling his tale. collaboration OneTube Peri Urban. Tags: online community music video YouTube web 2.0 They've been running into roadblocks in the Australian legal and family court system, unable to find assistance. Amanda, of course, is wreck over this.

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Follow-up: Too Many Nonprofits, Part Two: Market Saturation

The Nonprofit Consultant

He quotes a Wall Street Journal article complaining about all the "fun runs" and "charity walks" that clog up urban streets every weekend, and then blames the traffic on "too many nonprofits." Tags: nonprofit , fundraising , cause marketing , walkathon , fun run , giving , charity

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How generous is your state?

The Nonprofit Consultant

Tags: giving philanthropy index charity Nonprofit states. Now, however you interpret the results, don't make the mistake of calling this a "generosity index." New York, the District of Columbia, Utah, California, and Connecticut. And, at the bottom, Iowa, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and North Dakota.

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5 Practical Ways to Engage a Geographically Distributed Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DATASTAX

Harvard Business

We’ve come to realize that much of that talent is located outside of Silicon Valley, and even outside of the typical urban areas where a company might naturally look for new talent. Like many technology companies, DataStax competes with some of the world’s largest enterprises for top talent.

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