Confab is a yearly gathering of content wranglers. That's right--writers, producers, marketers--it's like a massive book club for web writerly folks. And there's cake. Mmmm, cake.

If you haven’t thanked a teacher lately, now’s your chance. It’s Teacher Appreciation Week. I’ve had the privilege to know and work with hundreds of hard-working, talented teachers over the years; many who’ve joined our Flat World family as authors. We appreciate them all. But Talya Bauer, professor of management at Portland State University, must be...

Want to smile?  Ah, c’mon.  This 30 second video created for Teacher Appreciation Week will do the trick, promise.   Props to ExxonMobil for creating it, and a very Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to all the extraordinary professors and teachers out there.   The way you change lives and shape the future is simply remarkable. - From all your friends at Flat...

I’ve been to 30+ Springsteen concerts, and what keeps me coming back, besides his music, is how he continues to make a difference. Whether it’s looking out for his fans or feeding the hungry, Bruce isn’t afraid to do the right thing. Even if it means breaking the rules and rocking the boat. For some time, Springsteen has been trying to keep scalpers from taking...

College textbooks.  Discuss. Web-comic by DoghouseDiaries Why Flat World Knowledge could not resist sharing this. 1) It’s well played by Raf and the DogHouse team! 2) That very scenario inspires us to do keep doing what we do.  Since 2007, we’ve been turning the college textbook industry upside down and right side up by curating and publishing college...

We tackled the Big Questions about Open Textbooks at our Meetup at the Eastern Communication Association (ECA) conference this weekend. Our goal was to bring together folks who were interested in using open content in their classroom and facilitate a conversation. And what a conversation it was!

Today’s post is by Jason S. Wrench, author of “Stand Up, Speak Out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking” and Associate Professor of Communication and Media at SUNY-New Paltz. This week is certain to be chock full of conversations about communication in the 21st century.  As an Officer of Publications, I’ll be attending the Eastern Communication...