At the recent PDF Conference in New York, Arianna Huffington faced the audience and said, "I want you to listen to me." What she meant was, stop multi-tasking for a second. Stop Twittering, blogging, IM-ing, catching up on email, or reading Gawker and listen. We all hear, we're adept at hearing ...

Women's social networks are famous for being dense. We talk amongst ourselves, online and offline. Before women entered the workforce, their social networks were almost entirely female. Even still women's networks are more female than male, and contain fewer weak ties (See Ronald Burt). Their networks are less rich in those ...

I just wrote about this in Huffington Post. I study leadership- and it's a skill as well as an inherent quality. But what are the leadership qualities a president needs to possess? Are they similar to those a CEO needs? A military leader's suite of skills? A parent's, bringing along ...

Dave Winer is on to something, which he mentions in this podcast. I first got the idea from my colleague Matt Wilson at the Kennedy School, and I can't stop thinking about it. Obama's real power to change this country doesn't end on Election Day: it begins on Election Day. Citizenry ...

“It still seems to be amazingly hard for many women to say clearly what they feel most deeply, and to find the right words for what to them is most acute and actual, without saying too much or too little and without saying it with defiance or apology." Erik Erikson, Womanhood ...

This is a great study, but several years old. I would love to see updated statistics along these lines: The Discursive Construction of Weblogs "There is thus a relationship between blog type and author demographics. We propose that this relationship sheds light on how weblogs have been discursively constructed—that is, how meanings ...

Bobby Muller, help! Cross-posted from BlogHer.org: AP reports: Overwhelmed by the number of soldiers returning from war with mental problems, the Army is planning to hire more than 25 percent additional psychiatrists and other medical workers. As Moondanzer (her son is in law is in Iraq) writes on Moon's Rants and Raves And just ...

Apropos to some posts and comments on how returning vets can get resources they need to cope with PTSD, Bobby Muller, head of Veterans for America, provided this excellent advice for those seeking information about how to handle PTSD: "We have a good resource guide up on our web site ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about Jonathan Schulze, a Marine who killed himself upon return from Iraq. "On January 11, 2007, accompanied by his parents, he went to the VA hospital in St. Cloud, Minnesota and told people at that VA facility that he was thinking of killing himself. They ...

Right now, I'm kind of the like the breathy young undergrad I never got to be (mostly because I was too busy being distracted), because, in grad school, I'm reading Carol Gilligan. I feel like I've discovered a new world, even when I'm reading a classic! Apologies to Carol Gilligan ...