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		<title>The Non-Profit Urban Mega-Bookstore</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw some people lamenting the closing of Borders stores seemingly everywhere. Yeah, it&#8217;s sad. But why can&#8217;t someone(s) start a non-profit which takes donations, sells coffee, and offers services like mentorship to run awesome urban bookstores? Amazon, Borders, Barnes &#38; Noble, mom-and-pop &#8211; they won&#8217;t do it. Maybe you should do it.
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		<title>SECTOR: PUBLIC &#8211; A New Site About Technology For Public Good</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, during the Mashable / 92Y / UN Foundation &#8220;Social Good Summit&#8221; in New York, I launched a new website called SECTOR: PUBLIC.  The focus of this blog is on leading the conversation about innovative social change via technology’s influence on the public sector, public service, and public good.
 
From my &#8220;Letter from the Editor&#8220;:


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		<title>You Worry About Powerful Registered Lobbyists; I&#8217;ll Worry About 	Powerful Unregistered Non-Lobbyists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Drapeau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Washington Post ran a story about how the Obama administration will bar registered lobbyists from sitting on the nearly 1,000 advisory panels to the Federal government. These are panels of subject matter experts with named like the Defense Science Board who conduct studies that the government doesn&#8217;t have time to perform, and provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Did Government Become a Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Drapeau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When did government become a business? I keep hearing government called a business, and business terms like &#8220;efficiency&#8221; creeps into the lexicon here among progressive Washington folk. Sorry, government is not a business any more than the Boy Scouts, the Red Cross, or a public high school. Yes, they have some things in common, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM Knows How To Monetize Your Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM researcher Ching Yun Lin gave an interesting talk about the monetary value of having friends today at Web 2.0 Expo in New York. IBM is a gigantic company with thousands of people &#8211; mobile, global, and moving around. How do you find the right person to answer a unique question or problem? How does [...]]]></description>
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