Net2 Recommends is a monthly series of news and blog posts from around the web that the NetSquared team recommend. It is a round-up of items that caught our eye that we want to share with you.

• Starbucks Challenges Paper Cup Waste via Sustainability Design Contest
  From Mashable
  Starbucks recently sponsored a design contest to tackle the overwhelming amount of coffee cup waste accrued each year. The winning idea involved a blackboard, a free cup of coffee, and peer pressure. Sometimes it is not about the tech, but the people.

• The surprising truth about what motivates us
  Core77
  In the social benefit sector, we often think we can't compete because we can't offer enough money. We aren't emphasizing the right benefits.

• Challenging Mindsets: From Reverse Innovation to Innovation Blowback
  Edge Perspectives
  "Views on innovation in developing economies are evolving rapidly, yet they still do not capture the full significance of what is going on. Executives in the West are still prisoners of a mindset that equates innovation with technology and product innovation. This blinds them to significant alternative forms of innovation that can profoundly disrupt their businesses in the years ahead."

• Best methods for undemocratic participation
  PEP-NET
  At a workshop at the EDEM10 conference called, ‘Best methods for undemocratic participation’, the presenters challenged the audience to think about the most undemocrating e-participation system and what it would be like. This post sumarizes what the audience came up with and challenges us to think about participation in a new light.

• AP Stylebook Adds New Guidelines for Social Media
  Technorati Blogging
  "Since 1953, the AP Stylebook has been guiding journalists (and arguably public relations professions) to write in a cohesive manner and to ensure consistency throughout all the little nuances of journalistic prose.

Fast forward to 2010 and the AP Stylebook looks drastically different than it did in 1953 and even 1983.

 Today, the "journalism bible" wrote another chapter in it's history as it added new social media guidelines, including the official change from “Web site” to “website” and 41 other definitions, use cases and rules that journalists should follow."

• Tools for the 21st Century Teacher
  User mzimmer557 on Issuu
  "The Internet provides tons of free tools and resources for teachers to use in their classroom. This handbook is for new teahers and/or teachers who are wanting to integrate technology in their classroom. The tools are both to use with students and use professionally."

• The Value of Ideas
  Scott Adams Blog
  "Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything."

• Internet Trends 2010 by Morgan Stanley Research
  User CMSummit on Slideshare
  This slideshow shares LOTS of stats about current internet trends. It's fascinating, if a bit meaty.

• How Non-Profits Should Approach Making iPhone Apps
  Mashable
  "Much has been said about Apple’s policy barring iPhone and iPad application donations. The company cannot guarantee donations will be received by said non-profit, and as a result, donations to charities cannot be mentioned in any Apple application description, support materials, or the application itself. Certainly, this impacts the ability of non-profits and cause applications to collect donations. But how much?"

• Elevator Pitch Builder
  Harvard Business School Alumni
  When giving a pitch, you have one minute to explain yourself, your business, your goals, and your passions. Your audience knows none of these. This pitch builder will help you prepare so you can present your vision smoothly and entice your audience to want to know more.

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