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Open Culture explores cultural and educational media (podcasts, videos, online courses, etc.) that's freely available on the web, and that makes learning dynamic, productive, and fun. Items of interest to entrepreneurs are: * Business category of resource blog posts * MBA Podcast Collection * Industry podcast collections: science, technology * Web/Tech category of resource blog posts

The Sunday Edition of the CBC Radio Show has posted a podcast of their interview with Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus. About Muhammad Yunus: After the great famine of 1974 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh was founded by Muhammad Yunus. This bank was the first in an innovative approach to moneylending now known as "micro-banking". The Grameen Bank makes loans to the poor, and functions as both a business and a social development program (CBC, The Sunday Edition).

Axle Davids, CEO of MaRS client and tenant, Distility, speaks on The BusinessCast, an iTunes podcast for entrepreneurs.

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This Government of Ontario site provides business advice to several groups of individuals, including youth entrepreneurs and women entrepreneurs. Information tools such as Business Guides, Interactive Business Planners, and Event Workshops are offered. Users can also subscribe to Podcasting sessions such as the Canada Business Audio Workshop. While all documents can be accessed in English and in French, some are now also translated to Spanish, Arabic, Korean, Punjabi and Chinese.

Check out this podcast from Rabble.ca which covers a screening of the documentary, Us Now. The film talks about how technology enables community participation and MaRS Advisor Allyson Hewitt (and Director of the Social Innovation Generation program at MaRS) puts in her her two cents about the opportunities here for social change organizations as well as her encouragement to turn ideas and hype on this into actual practical change.

The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School (of business) provides free online access Knowledge@Wharton, its online business journal. The online journal focuses on: * business trends * interviews (faculty & business leaders) * business research * reviews (conferences, book, etc) * providing a search database to over 1,500 relevant articles and abstracts Major categories include Innovation and Entrepreneurship , Business Ethics, Marketing, Finance and Investment, and more. There is a "Special Sections" page that links to more in-depth articles which readers can post comments to. And last but not least, the site also has podcasts accessible via iTunes.

Booz Allen Hamilton , the US major global strategy and technology consulting firm, gives online access to its quarterly leading strategy + business magazine here at www.strategy-business.com Users can browse content, subscribe to e-mail updates, listen to podcasts, get sneak previews of upcoming issues, and order previous volumes in paper or CD format. The firm also accepts submissions of proposals for future articles/features. The fairly good Search and Browse feature links to the following: * Articles (back to 1995, 4th quarter) * Enews (goes back to 2000) * Resilience Reports (back to 2003) * Leading Ideas (back to 2006)

Stanford on iTunes provides access to a wide range of Stanford-related digital audio content via the iTunes Music Store, Apple's popular music jukebox and online music store. Of particular interest are their Technology Ventures Program podcasts

Kevin Werbach, a professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton, spoke recently with David Yaun, an IBM executive, about the company's Global Innovation Outlook project. According to Yaun, "traditionally, companies have identified innovation with gadgets and gizmos, but that thinking is being transformed." The definition of innovation is being broadened -- it is becoming more open, collaborative, global and inter-disciplinary. "The barriers to innovation and collaboration have come down dramatically," Yaun says. This was the second in a series of interviews about themes to be featured at Supernova, a conference Werbach organizes in collaboration with Wharton in San Francisco.