Background:
Transport and its links to health and health inequalities suggest that it is important to assess both the direct and unintended indirect health and related impacts of transport initiatives and policies. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) provides a framework to assess the possible health impacts of interventions such as transport. Policymakers and practitioners need [...]

My hope in this presidential election is that more attention would be devoted to how we are going to make a living in the future. The United States was once the world’s leader in knowledge work: science, technology, engineering, analytics, and the application of computers and communications to business. While we still do reasonably well [...]

What can managers do to increase employee commitment and engagement in their companies?
My good friend, Judith Bardwick, just wrote a book about the answer to this question called “One Foot Out The Door, How to Combat The Psychological Recession That’s Alienating Employees And Hurting American Business.”
I love her work and asked her respond. Here is [...]

I had just finished making a speech about choice – about the importance of finding work that you can feel excited about – when one of the audience members shared this story.
Her soon-to-be college graduate son is in the job market. With a background in accounting, he is finding the job market pretty attractive [...]

Robert Scoble blazed a big trail by blogging and producing video as a technical evangelist for Microsoft from 2003 through 2006. No longer at Microsoft, Scoble now produces media for media’s sake at FastCompany.tv. Others have followed his lead, knowingly or not, and job titles like “social media evangelist” are no longer nearly [...]

In our ongoing collaboration with JC Report, we recently contributed two articles about some promising emerging brands, and we wanted to make sure BoF readers could learn about these talented young designers too.

The first designer came to our attention when we spotted a friend sporting the coolest cardigan. When we asked who designed it [...]

These days when someone mentions the term "web office," you probably think of the online suites like by Zoho or Google Apps. But alternative office suite, ThinkFree, has also been plugging along since their launch of an online suite in 2005. Lately, even though ThinkFree has been losing ground to their competitors, they aren’t ready [...]

On Tuesday our friends and colleagues at Joomla! announced the release of Joomla! 1.5.
In their release note, the Joomla! developers remark that
The next phase offers the opportunity to bring together the code created, lessons learned, and momentum gained, to build something truly great. It took us tens of thousands of hours, thousands of revisions, and [...]