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Gross National Happiness?

The United Nations held a historic UN Conference on Happiness on April 2 to discuss wide discrepancies in levels of happiness worldwide and whether countries should track happiness in addition to other...

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The how of social capital

Social capital is a powerful resource for individuals and communities.  For individuals embedded in dense social networks, these networks and the attendant norms of trust and reciprocity strongly shape...

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Guest Post: Want to bridge? DISRUPT!

[Guest post by Patricia Brandes, Executive Director of the Barr Foundation. Brandes talks about the ways Barr has used disruption as a tool to spark bridging across difference among social change...

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Nextdoor: e-neighborhood networks

  Sarah Leary, Nextdoor.com I had an interesting conversation with Sarah Leary, co-founder of Nextdoor. Sarah comes from having worked at epinions (with the other Nextdoor co-founder Nirav Tolia) and...

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Skepticism about “on-line community”?

For those skeptical about whether on-line communities offer the same level of social capital as in person friendships, this cartoon is for you.   Source: tedmccagg.typepad.com

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Altruism the key to worker productivity and advancement?

The New York Times Sunday magazine (3/31/13) has an interesting long read by Susan Dominus “Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead?” focusing on research by Wharton (U. Penn) workplace organization...

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Nice graphic on rise of the “nones” (Americans saying they have no religious...

This graphic from Good magazine (zoomable version here) has a nice picture, using Pew data, of who the “nones” are in America but as Bob Putnam points out, mis-states  their lack of religiosity on the...

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How loneliness kills

Flickr/cc/ewixx Judith Shulevitz, in the May 13, 2013 New Republic has an interesting read “The Lethality of Loneliness.” Excerpt: “Psychobiologists can now show that loneliness sends misleading...

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Nextdoor and NYC team up to enhance neighboring

Flickr/kiki99 I’ve written in the past about efforts to use 21st century technological tools to enhance neighbors’ connections with each other, the sort that are far less common today than in the 1960s...

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Good places for kids’ social mobility

Scholars Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hedren, Patrick Kline and Emmanuel Saez (from Harvard and Berkeley) have garnered richly deserved  attention for their interesting retrospective look at which places were...

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