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June 4, 2015

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Matthew S. Theobald (1970-2010), Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) and CEO, Internous, shares insights on harvesting the Deep Web and what that could mean for people, organizations and communities to access resources and connect to new opportunities for innovation and enterprise.

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Arts education in Ohio has just had a blow. Recently, the State Board of Education agreed to allow art, music and drama to become an ancillary offering by our public school system. What is your experience with arts in education? What works? What doesn't work?

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• #NEW ANGELO VERMEULEN: CO-CREATION, COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND 'FACILITATING LEADERSHIP' ACCELERATE PROJECT INNOVATION A developer applies co-creating, community organizing and ‘facilitating leadership’ practices to accelerate innovation in three global strategic initiatives.
• #NEW CAAO'S WILLIAM HOLDIPP JR. - NORTHEAST OHIO'S REGIONAL NETWORK SHERPA Interview with William Holdipp Jr., Asst. Exec. Dir., Consortium of African American Organizations (CAAO).
  
• #ARCHIVE DATABASE OF DATABASES BY MATTHEW S. THEOBALD Matthew Theobald, Founder, Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) and CEO, Internous LLC. Interview April 25, 2009.

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• HOW ARE SOCIAL SECTOR LEADERS CREATED? ARE THEY BORN WITH PASSION? OR DOES IT GROW WITH EXPERIENCE? A life story by Daniel F. Bassill,  President, Tutor Mentor Institute and Director, I-Open about melding corporate leadership and tutor mentoring to radically change people's lives.
  
• REFLECTIONS ON BEEKEEPING AND HIVEMIND by Steve Banhegyi. It is said that without bees, there's no environment. A story of some of the beekeeping concepts and metaphors which can be useful to expand thinking in and about human organisations.
  
• THE BENEFITS OF REIKI FOR ENTREPRENEURS by Tom Romito. Every living thing has reiki energy in it - people, animals, and plants. This article shares four steps to bring healing through reiki energy to you,  a community of persons, an institution, or the world.
  

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• Building Capacity in Emergence with Margaret J. Wheatley Margaret shares her perspective on today's shifting world and what leaders must do in the face of deteriorating civilization to sustain belief in human potential.
  
• The Nature in Leadership - Introduction with Jackie Lowe Stevenson, Founder and CEO, The Spirit of Leadership Jackie shares a brief introduction about why her work is important to her and how her work with nature and large animals - specifically horses - advances what we know about successful leadership practice in open innovation systems.
  
• Gloria Ferris: Arts Education in Ohio Arts education in Ohio has just had a blow. Recently, the State Board of Education agreed to allow art, music and drama to become an ancillary offering by our public school system.
  

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