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Open source can represent many things to different people depending on your perspective. When asked to describe New Kind to potential partners, or to my friends and family, I often say that we grew out of the open source movement at Red Hat, and that we now apply those open
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Coming Together We live in an age of conferences and convenings. If one chose to do so, you could attend a conference on any range of topics each week of the year — perhaps even two per week if you really wanted to be ambitious. Over the course of this summer
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On September 3rd and 4th, Hopscotch Design Festival will gather makers, thinkers, storytellers, and re-inventors from Dublin to Durham to share ideas and foster conversations. At New Kind, we’re into designing community experiences. We are thrilled to partner with Hopscotch Music Festival to unite people who are engaged in
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Information overload is a hot topic as new applications and social services seem to launch every single day. Many of them promise to deal with some form of overload but often I find that they just add another "to do" to my list. Email is one primary service
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A few weeks ago I taught at the 2012 Young Advocates Institute on utilizing social media to speak out, speak up and impact change in local communities. The YAI crowd was comprised largely of 16 and 17 year old students from North Carolina.As is often the case with these
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The battle over Amendment One in North Carolina began a bit slowly in the fall of 2011. After a difficult legislative session, which included the amendment being placed on the ballot by a single vote, the amendment’s opponents were dispirited and disheartened. In fact, some independent observers believed that
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I was honored to be a part of the Institute for Emerging Issues forum on Generation Z this week.The Institute for Emerging Issues serves an important role in North Carolina, bringing people together to ensure North Carolina’s competitiveness on the global stage moving forward. Unlike many policy organizations,
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Few would dispute that Susan G. Komen Foundation has dramatically helped advance the fight for a cure for breast cancer. The organization has helped make pink the national color for October, elevating the search for a cure to the top of the national dialogue for an entire month. Its work
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Last week I joined the team at New Kind. I could not be more excited to get to work with everyone here.They are community builders, writers, designers, and brand experts who see where the world is going and work with our clients every day to bring them there. I