Archive for March, 2008

How Much Can You Rely on Someone’s Recommendation?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

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In conversation with an acquaintance you mention that your CPA has retired. This semi-stranger suggests a CPA who specializes in your kind of work. Should you follow-up? You’d be more motivated to do so if that acquaintance:
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How Are Our Beliefs and Behavior Evolving?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Over fifty million people in the United States are Cultural Creatives. This cluster was labeled by Sherry Anderson and Paul Ray. They believe it began to emerge just fifty years ago. Two thirds of the group are women. In their book they noted that Cultural Creatives, “substantially outnumber social and financial conservatives … and are […]

What Happens When You Don’t Know Who’s Acting?

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

The playboy bunny I was “asked” to interview said she needed an automatic, rather than a stick shift on the Corvette her suger daddy was giving here. It was the only way she could sip her slurpy while driving. At that moment I wondered how I was going to write a straight story […]

How You Can Prompt Us to Feel or Do Something

Monday, March 24th, 2008

This persusion technique probably won’t work on hormonally-hit teenagers (sorry weary parents) yet you could try it on spouses, co-workers or customers. Suppose, for example, you’re tired of the dirty cups in the office coffee nook. Try spraying the air with a lemony scent reminiscent of a cleaning agent. When those sloppy colleagues smell it […]

What If Grants Were Given for Social Change Ideas?

Friday, March 21st, 2008

The time has come. The Jeff Skolls, Larry Brilliants and Melinda and Bill Gates of the social entrepreneur movement feel they’ve reached the tipping point. Sidestepping traditional charity, business or government “models” they’ve crafted systems for doing good that are data-driven and replicable – so they can scale, to use the geek term for […]

How American Express Succeeds at Tradeshows: News You Can Use

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Do you exhibit at trade shows? Gain insights into how to generate more visibility and value - with the right partners - from someone who’s increased the event planning ROI for American Express. Meeting planners and attendees can also benefit from his ideas.
Our podcast guest, Harris Schanhaut, CME is a thought leader […]

 
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Making Conferences More Meaningful by Harnessing Technology

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Our trend towards more collaborative conferences and other modes of knowing and learning has happened largely through the use of new technology. The pace of change in online tools is overwhelming even for geek gurus (no I am not one). From three of my heroes on making education more entrancing and available (George Siemens, Peter […]

Co-Creating What We Wear… and More?

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Imagine investing “just” $50 in a clothing company so you could co-design the togs they make - and you can buy. My first thought was it sounds like committee work at its worst. Yet that’s exactly what a firm called nvohk started doing. Another clothing company, Threadless also uses this […]

 
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Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World

Friday, March 14th, 2008

One morning over his breakfast cereal, life forever changed for a twelve-year old Canadian boy. He flipped through the pages of his morning newspaper to find his favorite cartoons. Instead he was stopped by a headline, “Battled

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When a Conference Audience Gets Ugly in Live Time

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Traditionally, conference attendees fill out conference evaluations after a session or conference is over, but the SXSW conference for tech and entertainment folks is anything but traditional. Some attendees heckled in real time at the  “pandering” and/or “self-promoting” style of Business Week’s “Valley Girl” columnist Sarah Lacey during her interview of Facebook CEO, Mark Zukerberg.A “trainwreck.”(Advice: […]

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