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Frugal Living - Treasures and Memories, Frugal Style

Making memories and cherishing our loved ones can be done without spending a lot of money. Utilize a little creativity, focusing on the interests, needs and “likes” of your loved one. What inspires or makes them feel special? Once you’ve started, you’ll find that the littlest things, when least expected (or most needed) make all the difference [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 14:30:00

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Enterprise 2.0 - A new Age of Aquarius?

It’s two weeks after the event, but here are my slides and notes from my presentation at Edge of the Web. Apologies for the delay. To those for whom some of this looks familiar, it shares an amount of common content with my recent paper at the BTELL EA conference. The audiences were very different, so the common content wasn’t an issue [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 03:57:56

The Cracked Columnists Ruin the Oscars!

Brilliant directors, creative screenwriters, actors, actresses and various crew members work diligently, honing their crafts and perfecting their art all year for one reason and one reason only: So the Cracked Columnists can make fun of their movies. 5:00 PM PST- Alright, let’s get things started with some sexy red carpet coverage [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 18:04:59

Getting corny: Video responses to the Corn Refiners’ HFCS campaign

Things have been far too serious around here lately, what with all these petitions and dire reports. Fortunately, a writer on Tufts’ Comfood list-serv (yes, we poach lots of good ideas ... which looks terrific. It’s about a visionary development team trying to erect a radically “green [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 00:11:13

Hippity Hoppity Easter’s On Its Way

April 12 is only a month away. Here are a couple of ideas to help build momentum through Easter. 1. Start something new ... . 3. Review your follow-up process. There is no sense in inviting people if you don’t follow up with them. Make sure that there are no holes in your follow up process. Ask yourself the question, “ [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 12:53:26

How to beat your #1 wealth-building challenge today …

If my new personal blog is proving anything, it’s that this is indeed a GLOBAL crisis, and folks from all over the globe are on my blog weighing in on yesterday’s “Question of the Day!” So far, we’ve heard from A. Wilkinson, John and others in England … John in Ireland … Johannes and Christiane in Germany … Arthur and Harry in Australia … [more...]

Date: 2009-02-12 19:50:21

Grandma, Jimmy and Wonderful Spring Breakers

Jump to CommentsThis morning I walked along the promenade after hosting my port adventure talk to find a group of three or four teenagers huddled ... ..If they like a TV program, they go online and download the whole series. If they want to go to the movies ... me he recently downloaded a program called Spotify, which gives you pretty much all the music [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 02:18:26

TV Decoder: Watching the Inauguration

Ballroom Television | 9:18 p.m. Inaugural festivities extended into prime time with the Neighborhood Ball on ABC beginning at 8 p.m. ET. ABC is the exclusive broadcaster of the ball, although other networks were allowed to take live shots of President Obama’s remarks at the event — and then only a measure or two of the First Couple dancing to [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 01:18:13

City Eco Labs and other compelling reasons to go on living

(((My residency at Sandberg Instituut has ended gracefully and I am in transit for the next few days ... , dry toilets, sustainable urban drainage, alternate reality games, watershed planning, seed banks ... made by a team in Delhi that brings the bike-based commerce of the streets of India alive - in St [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 08:37:52

Generation Generosity

together from the ground up with the goal of raising money for clean water - putting the charity and its' mission before anything else. (Well, maybe another motivation was the desire to meet up with other Twitter users and have a good time. Fundraising events should be fun!) And while there are commercial or business event sponsors [more...]

Date: 2009-02-07 00:15:53

Toward A Fresh Vision of Trader Coaching and Mentoring

Before moving forward with a fresh framework for the coaching of traders, let's review the key ideas from recent posts: ... like the training models in psychiatry and psychology by which therapists are developed over time ... . So, if we draw upon the structure of training programs in such fields as medicine, law, performing [more...]

Date: 2009-02-28 14:21:00

Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2008

Today is my birthday, and I decided to give you all a gift that few of you have been highly anticipating for a few months now. My most popular post on this site — probably by far — was last year’s Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007 compilation. I spent about 3 days (and nights) on it (without sleep) and I was quite happy with the turnout [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 13:55:21

Obama on No. 1 Change.gov Question: Let's Punt

Is there any chance that the incoming Obama Administration will pay much more than passing lip service to the top policy initiatives suggested by the citizen army it mustered to suggest and rank ideas for governance on the super-hyped Change.gov site? Today on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopolous, the host asked President-Elect Obama [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 22:24:34

Dial H for History: Marvel’s Legacy Heroes

As the year comes to a close, it’s become clear that in the Marvel Universe, there has been major upheaval from within the company’s heroic pantheon. With a new Captain America leading a band of Secret Avengers, what’s old is new again, with the concept of the legacy hero getting a set of legs at the House of Ideas. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 00:02:14

Office Teamwork vs. Human Nature: Which Will Win?

by Bart Icles Wikipedia has probably one of the most complete yet simple definitions of teamwork “Teamwork is the concept of people working together cooperatively as a team in order to accomplish the same goals/objectives.” If you stop ... that doesn’t talk about the need to their team to work together. Why though is it viewed [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 12:27:07

Human Nature vs. Office Teamwork: Who Will Win

Date: 2009-03-11 12:28:31

Small Business to Get Short Shrift from Obama Administration

Entrepreneurs will face a slew of new taxes, a stifling regulatory environment, and politicians who bail out the well-connected. January 24, 2009 - by Tristan YatesAs the Ford Motor Company prepares to cash its first multi-billion dollar corporate welfare check and hand part of it over to the union, it’s easy to forget [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 08:00:02

5 Ways to Gain More Value from Your PR Agency

What follows is a guest post by Nicole Jordan , a former client at the Rubicon Project . Nicole is also a blogger of some renown ... to the request, but also threw in a few kind words for our team! Here’s Nicole: Being ... see them as part of our team. My SHIFT team literally helped be the company’s eyes and ears [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 01:26:04

Obama Administration Expected To Be Strong On Technology

One of the most impressive aspects about Barack Obama and his campaign was their ability to effectively leverage the power of technology ... team, announced this week, includes executives from some of top technology companies ... team's advisory board, along with Donald Gips, group vice president at Internet specialist Level [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 07:51:06

E-cubed: Education, Engineering & Environmentalism

The Idea When young engineering professionals engage high-school students in challenging large-scale construction of an environmentally sustainable ... skills learned in the classroom to build something exciting outside of the classroom. 3)An awareness ... E-Cubed. The Plan Engineers Without Borders, San Diego, are the core mentors. Our team [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 17:59:46

My1Stop Makes It Your Last Stop For All Of Your Printing Needs

There are quite a few printing options available around the internet. Each business has at least one special trait that they hold claim to which helps them draw in their customer base. Some offer lower than average pricing, others offer higher than average quality, while one business might be more flexible then the next [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 06:53:20

Friday Night Lights on Saturday: Episode 3.1, "I Knew You When"

By Jonathan Pacheco ... Williams busted his knee during a playoff game and the team subsequently imploded. This falls on Eric's shoulders, who, according to reporters, foolishly built his team around one player. Speaking [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 03:05:57

Spoor House Yesterday the EPA announced winners of the second annual green building competition known as the Lifecycle Building Challenge, ... disassembly and that anticipate future use of building materials. It was open to architects, reuse experts ... , and students in three main categories: (1) Building, (2) Innovation, and (3) Outstanding [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 17:25:03

Cleaning house

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar kicked off the daily press briefing today with his plans for cleaning out a department that has become famous for scandal. "Over the last eight years, the Department of Interior has been tarnished by ethical lapses, of criminal behavior that has extended to the very highest levels of government," he said [more...]

Date: 2009-01-29 02:53:00

Don’t Buy CPA Arbitrage Conspiracy

Written by John Cow on December 10th, 2008 Want to Learn How to Build a Business Not Just a Blog.. for FREE? CLICK HERE Now to Find Out How!Got this email from my buddy Jerry West and thought i would share it… this is one guy I 100% trust and if he says no… then i have to believe he has a damn good reason why [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 19:04:37

Blogging Questions & Answers 21

I hope you guys had a good week, and to close it in style we have another set of Blogging Questions & Answers live ... weeks, therefore, just hold tight until I come to it. 1. Matej asks: “slow link building” method ... building refers to the practice of generating backlinks to your website gradually over time. Suppose [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 11:18:24

Financial Crisis May be Creating the Best Investment Opportunities of our Lifetime

In the face of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Money Morning Investment Director Keith Fitz-Gerald continues to uncover solid profit opportunities - including China, oil and other key commodities, and possibly even U.S. stocks. To those who have followed his career, that’s not a huge surprise [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 13:42:38

LotusJump Puts The SEO Tools You Need In Your Hands

Why do those top brands rank highest in search engine results? It is not dumb luck. They hire SEO (Search Engine Optimization) firms to make it happen. It is important to optimize your website for the best search engine results possible, but many small and medium sized businesses simply can not afford the same services which larger companies [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 06:00:29

Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is “Unlikely” To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs

It must be Google Week on Charlie Rose. Thursday, Rose interviewed product chief Marissa Mayer, and last night he had an hour-long conversation with CEO Eric Schmidt (embedded here, with a full transcript below). The wide-ranging interview touches upon everything from Google’s origins and how it fell upon its advertising business model by [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 20:37:59

Ethical or Unethical?

December 10, 2008 by adelle charles 28 Freelance I was recently approached by a web/graphic designer that is currently working full time for an agency. Business is currently a bit slow in the design area and someone within the company approached them about the possibility of using their personal online portfolio to show potential clients in [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 04:09:27

Prototype This

Inventor’s Digest: ID editor-at-large Jennipher Adkins recently spent some time on the set of Prototype This, ... , and will run for 13 episodes (check your local listings). The team told Inventors Digest it was tough to select 13 inventions from hundreds of ideas that they initially kicked around. And these guys [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 14:07:51

Sustaining Innovation: Perspectives From Andrew Hargadon

An interesting thesis of Andrew Hargadon's book How Breakthroughs Happen is that creative breakthroughs in organizations are more the result of ... and a lack of communication. Teamwork fosters innovation by helping participants think in unnoticed boxes ... in limited ways of viewing and doing. Hargadon argues that creativity requires both bridging and bui [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 06:01:00

10 Questions that Guarantee SEO Success, Part I

by Stoney deGeyter When focusing on SEO strategies we often talk about the engines, algorithms, links, page-tweaks and whatnot ... clients, there is the added dynamic of knowledge and communication that factors into building ... with the development team to figure out how to best implement those recommendations. Sometimes [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 17:16:53

How do I - train my team without a budget?

There is no escaping the reality that the credit crunch has led to budget cuts. The vast majority of businesses are looking to cut overheads ... Williams provides ideas for training your team when the budge has ben cut….Unfortunately, the training ... with developing what. If your team members are not used to training, it is often best to ask people [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 08:12:52

Why I'm Running for Mayor, What I'll Do if Elected, How it's Going so Far, and How You Can Help

Hello BOR community. I want to start my way-too-lengthy-I-know inaugural Burnt Orange Report post with a heartfelt salute to KT, Matt, Phillip, the BOR staff writers, and the whole BOR community for creating a fascinating and exciting place online. In my view, BOR has proven itself to be a superb source of news and insightful, colorful ( [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 23:38:09

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/13/2009

Check out tonight’s “behavioral sink” stories from the UK. Every night there are at least a few, but tonight seems to have more than its share.Also, in case you haven’t been following the story, Obama will close Gitmo shortly after he takes office. The interesting thing will be what he decides to do with the Gitmo alumni…Thanks to Frontinus, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 04:58:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/8/2009

The latest word is that an agreement with Russia has been reached, and the flow through the gas pipeline will resume.Also, look for the storming of the Israeli consulate in Montreal, as well as other Gaza-inspired violence around the world.Thanks to AA, Abu Elvis, Insubria, JD, Tuan Jim, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:49:00

What you Need to Know About Your Blog Hosts

by Steve Blalock Apart from the chat rooms, instant messengers and electronic mails created for communication and dialogue beyond turf are the ... for a personalized and human face aspect of building online communities is slowly changing the technological ... quote; * Excellent advertising platform. Blogging is a new way to advertise products, a [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 10:45:02

Shirtless PR superstud and Now Is Gone author, Geoff Livingston (well, his agency really) ... to make the most out of their online activities. The conference runs on October 29th (which ... , and will be organized into nine different topic areas: Building Web Presence The Social Opportunity Start [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 00:34:51

Mark Waid Chat Transcript

Mark Waid sat down with me Tuesday night for a very long chat where I tried to ask as many reader-submitted questions as I could, but you folks sent in sooo many that there were still a whole lot of questions that I did not get a chance to ask - I guess we’ll just have to do this again in the future! Anyhow, here is the chat transcript! [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 19:00:14

Advances in typography and text rendering in Windows 7

Even with the pictures and videos so commonplace on PCs, many of us spend most of our time looking at and interacting with text ... continues to provide the foundation for compatibility and application support. Building on the foundation ... feature team. --Steven One of the high-level goals of Windows 7 is to have even better graphics – [more...]

Date: 2009-02-13 08:00:00

Idealist.org Handbook

This is a great resource for Greenhorns and other think outside the box types… I am writing to tell you about a new book that hit the bookstores ... ! Ami Dar and the Idealist team http://www.idealist.org Posted in products, resources Tagged ... /en/handbook/ Published by Penguin, the Idealist Handbook to Building a Better World was written [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 13:45:05

Make This Thursday an Ecommerce Webinar Day

If you follow Get Elastic and the ecommerce marketing world, you won’t want to miss 2 back-to-back webinars by our friends at Sitebrand, ... personas 2. Building messaging that engages first-time visitor segments / personas 3. Mapping site real ... team will be available online to answer your specific ecommerce optimization questions. Register [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 02:55:41

More Thoughts from Davos - IT industry as Magnet and Catalyst

I’m catching up with my notes from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, so let’s back up to Friday, as we finished the third day of discussions. Crisis continues to be the key topic — ranging from economic to social, political to environmental. I’m still inspired by Day One’s conversations around how we use this crisis as a catalyst to [more...]

Date: 2009-02-03 13:02:36

8:00 - Shannon Paul on Internet People and What They Do

The theme of SOBCon09 is the ROI of Relationships. Relationships with customers, employees, colleagues, coworkers, builders, contractors, ... across the social web for the organization and the team. Shannon began her career as an intern ... an independent study program aimed at building and exploring the impact of blogs on mass communication [more...]

Date: 2009-02-11 01:58:38

COLAGE Fellowship Program

Passing along this information from COLAGE about their 2009-10 Fellowship Program. Any questions, please contact them. (Info at bottom of post.) ... building and social justice mission. As a temporary member of the COLAGE staff team, fellows learn ... on a particular issue of critical importance to the COLAGE community. Ideal fellows [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 11:08:58

Full Text and Video: President-Elect Obama Weekly Radio Address, November 21 | Stimulus Would Create 2.5 Million Jobs by January 2011

President-elect Barack Obama’s weekly radio address promises what sounds like meaningful economic stimulus - should Congress cooperate once he takes ... s infrastructure. It’s amazing to look around today and think about the public works projects ... that will create jobs and fuel long-term economic growth. I have already directed my economic team [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 01:55:56

On The Internet And What It Gives Us

This post is more epic than Astro Boy’s lack of nipples. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It’s a different time that we live in now. The economy is worse than it’s ever been since World War II as we’re told [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 11:13:31

The wanderers

It is the middle of January this year and Bono is at home in Killiney, County Dublin, with an hour to spare before he heads into town for an afternoon of meetings. "Things are looking good," he says. "It's a beautiful, sunny, winter's day and Edna O'Brien has just been sent me her book on Lord Byron [more...]

Date: 2009-02-15 00:01:00

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