Are your website's underpants showing? If your institution's site hasn't been refreshed for a while--if, for example, it still sports the same navigation from last century--the answer is probably yes, says Luke Wroblewski, CEO and cofounder of Input Factory, an internet startup focused on mobile design.

Wroblewski's message is straightforward: If your website navigation consists of a list of your college departments, you have allowed your organizational underpinnings to dictate the structure of your site. Instead, schools should invert that model and ask themselves, "What do people actually want from us? What are they trying to achieve and how are they trying to achieve it?"

It's not easy being a leader.

It also doesn't help that most advice about leadership is given by, well, let's be honest, leaders. Instead of having CEOs and executives talk about what makes themselves great, we thought we thought it'd be nice to open up the floor to all voices--so we put out a simple question on Facebook.

What do you think makes a really good boss? As usual, the responses came streaming in. Here, we've compiled a list of our five favorites. Feel free to forward it on to your own boss--if you think they're a good enough boss to appreciate it.

One year ago, the tallest structure in the EU was inaugurated with cutting edge digital telescopes in the viewing deck. Thanks to some clever hardware encoders and software trickery, visitors to the Shard building can view London as never before. Here’s how they did it.

I think I speak on behalf of most interns when I say that my arrival in the advertising-technology industry forced me onto a steep learning curve adorned with terminology I never knew existed. I’ve learned that the ad tech space is quite complex, consisting of a large number of fragmented players with diverse and often confusing business models.

On top of all that, I joined the Commercialization team here at AppNexus, a team whose role is as almost as complex as the industry we are working in. Within two weeks’ time, however, I was up to speed thanks to the genuinely collaborative work environment I found myself in.

PIVOT Magazine is Startup Canada’s online magazine to showcase the latest trends, innovations and approaches to building better businesses, more entrepreneurial communities and advancing economic development from coast to coast through entrepreneurship and innovation.

As one of the key elements of Startup Canada's Campaign, PIVOT Magazine is the latest feature of Startup Canada's suite of programs rolling out this year in direct response to the call to action of the more than 20,000 entrepreneurs who made their voices heard during last year's national tour.

Recent economic and political pressures have resulted in increased interest in university technology transfer activities. Recognizing this heightened interest in our work, Emory’s OTT wants to ensure that our technology transfer program continues to be viewed as one of the leading programs in the country. To accomplish that goal, our office has embarked on a multi-phase, multi-year project focused on “Reinventing Technology Transfer,” what we call ReTechTran for short, which seeks to improve and strengthen the operations of our office.

Last week, the White House announced 43 new Presidential Innovation Fellows.  These innovators ranged from for-profit, non-profit, and private sector and signed up for 6-13 month "tour of duties" to help improve government.   I took a read of the backgrounds of these innovators and I have to say they are all impressive and fascinating.  There are tons of amazing developers, designers, and innovators from across the U.S. especially form Silicon Valley.  I'm personally really excited that there is so much interest from talented leaders to serve their country

Kansas City Startup Village is high on foot traffic and interest — but low on cash. A Kansas entrepreneurial network is working to change that in a deal that would create an investment fund that the startups dole out themselves in the growing community near 45th Avenue and State Line Road. The pilot project is through NetWork Kansas, which administers the state's entrepreneurship tax credit to nearly 40 mostly rural communities.

A bill that would join forces between Oregon State University and the University of Oregon -- and the cities around them -- to help create private companies based on research at the two universities has passed the Oregon Legislature.

Senate Bill 241, which creates a new South Willamette Valley Regional Accelerator and Innovation Network, or RAIN, and approves funding in the amount of $3.75 million, is expected to be signed by Gov. John Kitzhaber.

Drexel University is taking a crack at the age-old Philadelphia problem of losing too many start-up companies to other regions where more rigorous infrastructure exists to shepherd companies from idea to reality.

"Too much talent has fled from the greater Philadelphia region for Boston and San Francisco. It's sort of heartbreaking," Drexel president John Fry said Monday.

Drexel's answer to the loss of its graduates' businesses to other parts of the country is Drexel Ventures, a new subsidiary that will operate as an umbrella for multiple efforts to foster entrepreneurship and translate Drexel innovations into commercial enterprise.

The Great Recession wiped out countless companies and startups, even some from the most seasoned business leaders. So why did some startups manage to not only survive, but also grow? And what business lessons have these entrepreneurs picked up along the way?

Now that things are looking up again, we asked five successful entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) how their businesses overcame the economic low, how it's impacted their prospects, and what lessons they gleaned from recovering.

The space for startups is more crowded than ever. First of all, it’s now international, so you have startups from every country in the world competing for your customer’s attention and their business. Then there is the Internet, delivered through every media, including your smart phone, where the volume of data spewing out is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes.

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. The days when you could launch your business with a new web site, and the phone would begin to ring, are long gone. Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you.

What do women really want?

Sigmund Freud couldn’t figure it out, but LinkedIn tried to in its recent survey, “What Women Want @Work.” Here’s what the poll of more than 400 working women aged 18 to 65 uncovered.

Women at Work: What Do They Really Want?

Women Value Work-Life Balance

In fact, it’s the number one factor in whether women at work feel successful or not. Sixty percent of the working women surveyed define “career success” as being able to have work-life balance. (Which is interesting, since I think that’s an unachievable goal).

We all go to in person networking events and engage online and meet people who we think are interesting and could be great colleagues, clients or referrals. We also work with people on projects, tasks and events on a daily basis. Not to mention those in career transition, changing jobs and trying to find new jobs.

There’s a lot of content and conversations to manage and especially follow-up with today. We juggle multiple communications in our life activities both on and offline, which require us to follow-up. Sadly, I find most people don’t.

A "perfect storm" of economic, social and environmental factors is making the business landscape increasingly volatile. The pace of change is faster and only set to increase. To succeed, business needs to become more agile, creative, alert, spontaneous and responsive. In short, it needs to learn to operate in completely new ways.

The changes call for businesses to operate in ways more akin to living systems. Living systems learn and adapt; they are not structured and working in silos; they don't stifle learning and agility. Businesses that operate in these ways are bottom-up, decentralised, interdependent and multi-functional; they feature self-organising units.

Developing countries are the most efficient innovators, achieving results in areas such as scientific research, infrastructure and technology production with relatively low inputs, a report indicates.

But an "innovation divide" persists because overall innovation levels still lag well behind those of richer nations, according to 'The Global Innovation Index 2013', launched this week (1 July) at the High Level Segment of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), in Geneva, Switzerland.

There are many reasons for knowledge transfer to be a necessity, regardless of the reasons the challenge is always effective movement of the experts knowledge to the fresh engineers. Most legacy applications have been developed and changed over decades, and documentation is usually lacking and not up to date. Also, often times these applications are mission critical and the company cannot afford to have them be offline.

Traditionally interviews and long technical trainings looking at the applications source code have been the norm. But this process is ineffective, and impractical. Below are a list of suggestions of best practices that are expounded on in the full document.

Pouring the perfect draught is no mean feat. It takes time and skill before you can get the perfect beer to “head” ratio. But what if you tried to do it with your mind? Well Castle Lite, a low carb beer from brewing giant South African Breweries, recently gave people the chance to find out. As part of its latest event, the brand introduced the Extra Cold Mind Reader which rewarded people with a cold Castle Lite draught if they managed to keep their minds cool, even when presented with images of extreme heat.

I've been thinking for a while about Ye Olde Freedom Trail...

It was conceived in 1951. The newest of its sites, the Bunker Hill Monument, was built in 1842, but it mainly focuses on Revolutionary Era Boston. Most people have walked it a few too many times, with kids and out-of-town relatives.

I thought the Freedom Trail could use a younger, hipper, science-and-technology oriented sibling. So in my Sunday Boston Globe column this week, I laid out an Innovation Trail of Boston and Cambridge.

I recently got an email from a blogtrep who wasn’t sure if his idea would work out or not. After some back-and-forth, he felt better. It did, however, inspire me to write out a couple of questions that anyone thinking of starting their own business or product should think over before diving in.

The first question you should ask yourself: Is your idea something worth fighting for?

A can’t-stop-won’t-stop mentality is important for anything you try to do, but it’s especially important when you’re doing something like this. You’re going to come across an impossibly large number of people saying no before someone finally says yes, and you need to be prepared for rejection because I can promise you that it will come. I can also promise you that with enough work and good decision making you will discover one of the best feelings I’ve felt when something I’ve worked for months on finally hits big.