by mvboronowski | Aug 2, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Build Community in Apartment Buildings Apartment buildings are complex places when it comes to building community. This article explores how to build community in apartment buildings. Last Friday evening I arrived home from work via bicycle with a few reusable bags of...
by mvboronowski | Jul 27, 2012 | Business & Entrepreneurship
Solving Problems by Fostering Community and Surfacing Innovation We work in silos. The boundaries might be fuzzy like a Turner landscape, but community, collaboration, and innovation can suffer as a result. We can improve our ability to work together to surface and...
by mvboronowski | Jul 26, 2012 | Learning & Thinking
Go to any academic journal and pull up a random scientific article. Can you understand it? Chances are you will probably not understand all of it. Even if you do understand all of it (yes, even including the statistical analysis section), do you understand how this...
by mvboronowski | Jul 25, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
Over the past week I’ve visited Paris and Vienna and become enraptured by their bike sharing programs. Both cities boast cheap memberships for out-of-towners, which charge you by the half hour (Paris) and hour (Vienna) to ride. The first little while is always...
by mvboronowski | Jul 24, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
When I was a kid, I used to love going to the library. There was something amazing about going down to the local library with an empty book bag, and coming home with a bag full of borrowed magic that I could pore over for hours. Then I started earning money, and my...