I’m between books (and taking a break to do some other reading) but wow is are there some great short pieces floating around online. I finally got around to researching a replacement for the late, lamented toread Firefox extension, and settled on Pocket for its elegance and cross-platform-friendliness. I’m reading a lot of excellent stuff, but I’ve selected a few that I think I’ll be coming back to refer to for months and years to come.

Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work – Collective impact is a framework for thinking about and strategizing collaboration that’s gaining a lot of ground, and although there are some great library-centric resources out there, it’s interesting and useful to put it into the broader context of the nonprofit/NGO/quasigovernmental agency community.

6 Ways to Stand Out At A Conference – “You probably don’t have the mental energy to be Amazingly Compelling Aisha Who Is Also a Great Listener every single day of your career, but can you be her for two days?” Haha, yes exactly. This and lots more.

Measure the Future – I just want to spend a weekend on my couch reading everything attached to this site. Traditional library statistics meets Internet of Things meets human-centered design meets big data meets open source. Fascinating.

“Sponsored” by my husband: Why it’s a problem that writers never talk about where their money comes from – as a civil servant and aspiring writer, starting graduate school and turning forty, this article was sobering and difficult. And true and necessary, and hopeful and helpful. Straight-partnered to one other person who is a primary breadwinner is not ever again going to be my life, and I need to figure out how to fit that reality into the vision of the creative and professional life I want.