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The Mesh: The Biz Model That Shares, Listens, and Saves the Planet
Just finished reading Lisa Gansky’s new book, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing, a great book which explains a new and rapidly growing model of business that takes advantage social networking technology and growing desires to save money and help our planet. What is the Mesh? In Lisa’s words, “The Mesh is the…
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Making Your Blog & Newsletter Work Together
You know the importance of keeping your people up to date, but never have enough time. After all, who has time to stay on top of writing weekly blog posts, putting together monthly or quarterly newsletters? Or maybe you’re putting the time in, but get annoyed with having to write every story twice, first for…
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You Can Change the World: TED Talk by Nancy Duarte
A couple months ago I got my hands on Nancy Duarte’s new book, Resonate. Duarte recently spoke at TEDxEast, and released the video of her 18-minute talk. Nancy Duarte’s talk at TEDx East from Duarte Design on Vimeo. “You are not the hero who will save the audience; the audience is your hero.” – Nancy…
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A Beautiful Hope
Against All Hope was released last year by Art&Justice League. This 20-minute documentary highlights the struggles faced by the Karen people of Burma for many years at the hands of the military regime. It’s a beautifully-shot video, well worth a watch: Tomorrow I’ll be showing this video to a group of high school students. As…
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Your Sacred Craft
“Then Moses said to the people of Israel, “See, the LORD has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver…
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Stats That Tell Stories
Stats aren’t just numbers, they tell stories. Often statistics are seen as boring, but if they’re interpreted and presented in the right way they can offer incredible insights. No one has demonstrated this more clearly than Hans Rosling. If you haven’t yet, check out his TED talks: The Truth About HIV, New Insights on Poverty,…
