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Disclaimer: These are just raw presentation notes, with some editorial comments inserted.  I apologise it may not be clear whether something is a quote, or to whom exactly it should be attributed. I should also mention that Paul Miller in this context is PaulMiller.org Paul Miller [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 18:32:11

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Trends in Social Influence Marketing

A year ago, here at Razorfish, we developed a hypothesis that the way people were influencing each other -- online, in small groups, through peer pressure, reciprocity or flattery -- was giving rise to a whole new form of marketing that we called Social Influence Marketing™  (SIM) [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 07:18:34

False Axioms Produce Serious Nonsense

A long, long time ago you might have found yourself in a geometry class, and most teenagers – being teenagers – had a problem with axioms. Something didn’t seem right – to solve the problem at hand you had to list what was true to start with, something that was just a given, and build your logic on that [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 07:28:14

Interactive Producers Blog

The IPG, Independent Producers Group blog features some of the most interesting talents in the interactive space from across the globe ... . I am Scott Goodson, founder of StrawberryFrog. I have been building brands for over 20 years ... to make it. Being a hybrid was like the starting point. You had to be great at brand building, great [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 22:36:24

PRism Prize Winners

PRism extends a warm congratulations to Dr Mark Balnaves (Professor New Media, School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University) ... ) for their winning entry in the PRism Prize 2009. Professor Balnaves and his team were unanimously ... of Obamamania); and global campaigns and corporate social responsibility (e.g. theorising the global [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 06:09:23

DrumBeat: March 3, 2009

ANALYSIS - Fears grow for US natural gas in Obama tax squeeze SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil and gas executives and experts fear that President Barack Obama’s push for renewables could shrink U.S. output and drive drillers away from vast reserves of relatively clean-burning natural gas [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 16:56:37

Conversation: Sports4Kids Founder Jill Vialet Discusses a New Brand of Play in Schools

While there is a national concern about the apparent decline in the physical fitness of our youth, there is one group that is bringing a new way to play to schools across the country. Sports4Kids, based in Oakland, Calif., is rethinking school recess and taking its new brand play to low-income public schools [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 11:10:27

From ‘Hope and Change’ to ‘Fear and Loathing’

Barack Obama is at risk of losing his credibility as a leader by threatening disaster unless his will be done. February 9, 2009 - by Rick MoranThere is something surreal about the debate surrounding the stimulus bill which now appears headed for passage in the Senate [more...]

Date: 2009-02-09 08:00:19

Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/19/2009

Once again we present an abbreviated version of the news feed, since our email is still down. Today everything had to come in by skype, or we had to find it ourselves. Dymphna did the bulk of the work, digging through the news sites like a wino through a dumpster… Thanks to Fausta , Frontinus, Henrik , Holger Danske , [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 04:56:00

Managing the Brand Experience: An Interview with Marty Neumeier

Recently I had a chance to chat with Marty Neumeier, President of Neutron LLC and author of the recently published book The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation . Marty will be speaking at MX 2009, March 1-3 in San Francisco. How did you become a brand expert? [more...]

Date: 2009-02-17 22:25:15

Who? HOK Sport

Jump to CommentsAs the world’s leading sports architecture firm, ... . The building’s envelope is envisaged as a mix of Zincalume, glass and ETFE (the material used to striking ... design services for our clients. Our buildings are realised by a team driven by a passion for bespoke [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 05:37:26

DrumBeat: March 3, 2009

ANALYSIS - Fears grow for US natural gas in Obama tax squeeze SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil and gas executives and experts fear that President Barack Obama's push for renewables could shrink U.S. output and drive drillers away from vast reserves of relatively clean-burning natural gas [more...]

Date: 2009-02-28 04:35:51

Events usually held on land…. now being held out on the river Thames

Thames Cruises can be a great idea for some events- a poker night, weddings, clay pigeon shootng, ... to. The chocolate cruise -with a choice between a team building exercise or a tasting event. The team building section of the packages gives you the chance to have ago at being a chocolate mogul [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 21:37:44

Updates from February 2009

Saturday 28 February 2009 Awards  -  The Emerging Photographer Grant  : Deadline approaching folks…. It’s March 15. Awards  -  POYi Best Book  : Jason Eskenazi: Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith : Publisher: Gorgio Baravalle, de.MO Books Interviews and Talks  -  Jason Eskenazi  on his Wonderland project ( [more...]

Date: 2009-03-01 15:09:29

The Crisis and the Consolidation of Class Power

The Crisis and the Consolidation of Class Power David Harvey March 6, 2009 http://davidharvey.org Does this crisis signal the end of neo-liberalism? My answer is that it depends what you mean by neo-liberalism. My interpretation is that it’s a class project, masked by a lot of neo-liberal rhetoric about individual freedom, liberty, [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 15:51:37

ADR Announcements and Jobs

Dear HumanDHS network friends Please find below the ADR Announcements and Jobs February 2009. Kind regards Brian Ward 1. I highly recommend that you get connected to Craig Zelizer’s excellent list - the “Peace and Collaborative Development Network.” http://www.internationalpeaceandconflict [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 21:06:01

President-elect Obama’s Economic Speech

President-elect Obama’s Economic Speech Here’s highlights from the speech (full video here): Full text of the speech below: ↓ Show full post ↓ Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama As Prepared for Delivery American Recovery and Reinvestment Thursday, January 8, 2009 Throughout America's history, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:14:29

Friday Digest - Vol. 09 No. 08

Friday Digest Vol. 09 No. 08 27 February 2009 THE FOUNDATION "Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood [more...]

Date: 2009-02-27 16:23:00

ObamaNation — The USSA

Digest - Vol. 09 No. 08 THE FOUNDATION “Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood [more...]

Date: 2009-02-28 05:13:56

Open thread - Obama's first presser - join the chat room

UPDATE: The transcript of the presser is below the fold. Additional fun fact: Mark Nickolas ran the answers of former President George W. Bush during his first presser on February 22, 2001 and compared the grade level -- Bush's answers were spoken at 7th grade level. Obama's at a 10th grade level. See the graphs at his pad [more...]

Date: 2009-02-09 09:22:51

New Media Predictions 2009: What Online Independent Publishers Should Expect From The Future - Part 2

Here is Part 2 of my New Media Trends and Predictions for 2009. In this report I look at major trends while I try to anticipate key changes and the type of innovation taking place around the world of new media communication and professional web publishing. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 20:35:00

Towards a Newer Urbanism: Talking Cities, Networks, and Publics with Adam Greenfield

Adam Greenfield’s new book, The City Is Here For You To Use , is coming soon (photo above by Pepe Makkonen is from Adam Greenfield’s Flickr stream) . Adam told me: “I’m aiming at a free v1.0 PDF release on 05 June 2009, with the book shipping as quickly thereafter as humanly possible [more...]

Date: 2009-02-28 04:28:06

How to get the Pussy Cat Dolls as a client - Tim Young Interview

Today I interviewed Tim Young who is the founder of Social Cast ... on building social networks.  At the time, social networks were fairly new to companies and were ... that as an undergraduate, he was better equipped in building a social network than 30 - 40 year old professionals [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 10:00:17

Source Tagging: The Caller ID of the Social Web

Providing context for outreach and engagement in social media is key ... a history of that information for your team. And later, you might want to analyze and segment your data ... , IM, or post from that source, giving your team members valuable reference or context information [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 21:32:39

Review: Results Without Authority

Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal development, personal productivity, or career/entrepreneurship book ... a team player, and so on. I didn’t have the authority to actually order people to do things - instead [more...]

Date: 2009-03-01 20:00:00

Updates

Fair use notice : This site contains images and excerpts the use of which have not been pre-authorized ... Challenge program for high school dropouts in Georgia. Article:  Discipline of Military Redirects Dropouts [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 11:30:41

Updates

Fair use notice : This site contains images and excerpts the use of which have not been pre-authorized ... ) (NYT: March 8, 2009)  National Guard run Youth Challenge program for high school dropouts in Georgia [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 20:15:41

Rinspeed iChange Concept: Mighty Morphing Electric Changer [Geneva Motor Show]

The Rinspeed iChange concept, headed to the Geneva Motor Show , is touted as the world's first adaptive car-body based on passenger count thanks to a magical rear end. Also, it's controlled with an iPhone. Seriously, the Swiss auto tuning company claims " [more...]

Date: 2009-02-16 13:00:00

Full text of Barack Obama's first news conference

Here is the full text of President Obama's first formal news conference, Feb. 9, 2009: (UPDATE: A brief Republican response is attached at the end of this transcript.) THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, everybody. Please be seated. Before I take your questions tonight, [more...]

Date: 2009-02-10 03:41:57

Predator Prey Symbiosis: Crisis, Leadership and Values

This post is something of a bookend for the last one ( Good Boats, Good Captains: Applying the Investment Mantra for Profit ) ... the executive team as a whole. Here we're going to dive a tad deeply into the consequences [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 23:06:57

Updates

Fair use notice : This site contains images and excerpts the use of which have not been pre-authorized ... Network. There also seems to be some new members in the Mentor program: Anastasia Taylor Lind [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 23:30:41

Obama's first White House press conference. Transcript.

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release February 9, 2009 PRESS CONFERENCE BY THE PRESIDENT East Room 8:01 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, everybody. Please be seated [more...]

Date: 2009-02-10 03:13:14

Wag the Blog: Is the Obama Cabinet Too Conservative?

Wag the Blog: Is the Obama Cabinet Too Conservative? Is Obama's Cabinet too conservative? Photo by Jim Watson of AFP Earlier this week, Steve Hildebrand, one of the key field generals in President-elect Barack Obama's presidential campaign sparked a firestorm among the liberal commentariat when, in a piece for Huffington Post, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 18:10:49

Updates

Fair use notice : This site contains images and excerpts the use of which have not been pre-authorized ... to be some new members in the Mentor program: Anastasia Taylor Lind , Giulio Di Sturco , and Don McNeill [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 21:30:41

The UAW, the Detroit Bailout, and Related Sourcing Issues

A top-down command-and-control structure leads to power grabbing, not power sharing ... , if they won’t spend time discussing real job needs with their recruiting team, or if they expect candidates [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 10:55:15

Updates

Fair use notice : This site contains images and excerpts the use of which have not been pre-authorized ... in the Mentor program: Anastasia Taylor Lind , Giulio Di Sturco , and Don McNeill Healy  Features [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 22:30:41

An Interview with NBC’s Al Michaels

Media InterviewsTheBigLeadJanuary 23rd. 2009, 3:15pm Next week, NBC’s Al Michaels will call Super Bowl 43 between the Steelers and the Cardinals ... have to be re-thought.Q: Since you’re one of the few announcers who has called games at the highest level [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 20:15:49

How To Administer Risk Associated With Web Applications

Corporate around the world are working on innovative ideas and building web based applications as they provide flexibility, low maintainability cost, rich functionality and adds up the benefits [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 06:58:04

Ask SM: How Do I Create A Colorful Sitemap With jQuery?

We like to experiment with new ideas and concepts. We like to challenge ourselves and provide our readers with new formats ... , to our Smashing Magazine Editorial Team. From now on, Chris will regularly answer your CSS- and jQuery [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 00:27:58

Obama To Hold Fiscal Responsibility Summit

Obama To Hold Fiscal Responsibility SummitPresident-elect Barack Obama visits the Post newsroom after a meeting with the editorial board and Washington Post Co. Chairman Don Graham, right. (Photo, The Washington Post)President-elect Barack Obama will convene a "fiscal responsibility summit" [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:58:11

Memo to Chairman Steele: Organizing RNC 2.0

Congratulations Chairman Steele! Your election is not only a decisive victory for a new brand of leadership, ... Presidential election cycles to come. The consultants should work for you -- and not for their own [more...]

Date: 2009-01-31 20:56:03

‘I’m Maureen Dowd, and I’ve Been Had’

A support group for bitter pundits disappointed in Obama is quickly becoming necessary ... whetted by the shameful excesses of American CEO corporate culture. And finally, he has proposed [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 13:54:51

Social Media Marketing- The 10 Commandments of Social Media Marketing

I know.Comparing THE 10 Commandments to Social Media could be considered a bit of a stretch as I am a HUGE fan of THE 10 Commandments from the Good ... along with some heavy duty research, but lets see what we can come up with.Our team [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 12:28:06

Has Online Social Media Failed Starbucks?

To start lets define social media for Starbucks. From a tactic point of view they deploy four discernable tactics:1 ... me but they have some 70K who do. Do they give away free coffee?2.      Facebook: Typical corporate facebook page3 [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 04:53:17

Presenting: 10 of the Smartest Big Brands in Social Media

ten Samir Balwani is a social media marketer who helps businesses create effective web strategies. You can follow him on Twitter and get his newsletter. As we battle a global recession [more...]

Date: 2009-02-06 20:55:38

Social Media in Singapore BlogOut! 09 - itsReal

If you are from Traditonal Media, an avid Blogger, a corporate PR & Marketing person or Team, a Leading CEO, a financial early adopter, A new styled agency or just someone who is hearing [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 07:28:00

Writing, about Sydney

As Australia settles in to its blissfully warm summer holidays, ... what I consider to be the real problems of contemporary Sydney. While I agree with much of what Gehl’s team [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 04:05:52

50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography

By Noura Yehia and Smashing Magazine Editorial Team Typography is elegant when it is attractive and communicates the designer’s ideas. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very [more...]

Date: 2009-01-28 04:00:25

The $40 Pull List - War of Kings #1 Special - LIVE (Transcript)

6:30 Craig Reade :  The time has come… welcome to the first live broadcast of The $40 Pull List! 6:31 ... of the SPAM Corporate Annex in beautiful Nanuktuk California. I don’t know about you, but I’m nervous [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 03:40:20

Building a Social Entrepreneurial Garage Startup in India

Moving from ideas to execution is an ultra cool feeling ... in January 2009. The third member of our technical team, Zahir, will also be joining us in another [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 01:23:52

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