blogjam 2006

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FC Now BlogJam 2006

BY Heath RowWed Aug 16, 2006 at 6:34 PM

I'd like to thank all of the people who participated in this year's FC Now BlogJam. It was a rollicking two days, and our special guests -- the people behind the blogs in FC Now's blogroll -- posted almost 70 entries. That's pretty ...READ»

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Passionate Customers Find Their Voice Online

BY Kevin DuganWed Aug 16, 2006 at 12:39 AM

How passionate are your customers? Are they talking about you online? You might want to check Google. But don't stop there. YouTube, Flickr and MySpace should also be on your list of sites to search. Target and IKEA have looked for ...READ»

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“Do You Have Any Coupons?”

BY Kevin DuganWed Aug 16, 2006 at 12:31 AM

A pile of coupon news came out today as Google announced yet another free service. This one allows businesses to offer coupons to consumers via Google Maps. Bath & Body Works also announced it is offering coupons to its customers ...READ»

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The Fear of Getting Acquired!

BY Ashish KumarTue Aug 15, 2006 at 11:57 PM

This weekend, I was at a few engineering schools from India for our campus recruitment trip. Being a startup, one of the things that we covered in our presentation was general awareness and education about startups - explaining the ...READ»

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Do you Have a Coach Yet?

BY Michael DochertyTue Aug 15, 2006 at 11:55 PM

The business and life coaching industry has skyrocketed in size over the past seven years. Places like Coach U and the ICF are cranking out coaches faster than business schools used to produce MBA's. According to Coach U, companies ...READ»

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Everyone an Economic Hitman

BY Peter ReesTue Aug 15, 2006 at 11:29 PM

Craig's post from yesterday - the one calling out nonprofits that front corporate interests - suggests a prickly challenge for nonprofits. How does a nonprofit articulate a corporate relationship? "Fronting", has been a reliable ...READ»

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Are Our Expectations of Social Software Too High?

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 11:06 PM

Are our expectations of social software too high? And as a corollary, are our expectations of ourselves and software users too low? Even some of the seemingly simplest applications - 43 Things, LinkedIn, WordPress, et al., still ...READ»

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When Customers Create Your Assets

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 10:27 PM

If someone, in 1850, had told PT Barnum that they had a system in which customers worked long hours in their spare time to create the substance of a product which they then gave freely to a business which packaged it and sold it back ...READ»

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What We Know and Don't Know About the Workplace and Workforce of the Future

BY George LenardTue Aug 15, 2006 at 9:29 PM

Whipping up a last-minute Blog Jam contribution, I quickly note the guidelines: my post must "relate to Fast Company's core themes of innovation, leadership, change, and business." Fair enough. I normally blog about a wide variety ...READ»

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Missing TPS Reports Become International Incident

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 9:21 PM

Given that the workplace is full of humans, there is then automatically an almost infinite number of ways in which a good intention can be misunderstood, causing reactions that can escalate, and triggering government agencies to be ...READ»

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The Glass Ceiling vs. the Gray Ceiling

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 8:24 PM

At a women's leadership conference last week, Sherry Lansing, former chair of Paramount Pictures' Motion Picture Group, shared a story meant to encourage the women in attendance to keep on keepin' on. Thirty years ago, she said, ...READ»

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Social Enterprise: A Journey to Emancipated Nonprofits

BY Peter ReesTue Aug 15, 2006 at 8:15 PM

Living in Vancouver, a favourite pastime is counting the number of cargo ships in the harbour. It's a symbol of regional prosperity, global connection and a touchstone to a rich nautical heritage. All of which get reappraised when ...READ»

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Geographic Arbitrage

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 7:56 PM

So there I was, sitting in what seemed like my hundredth hotel room in six months, eating Olive Garden leftovers and staring glumly at my laptop. I had been sleeping in my own bed only about one week a month – non-consecutive ...READ»

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Where There's a Will, There's a Social Enterprise.

BY Peter ReesTue Aug 15, 2006 at 7:18 PM

One of the hallmarks of Fast Company is a "business not-as-usual" ethic. I don't think anything captures that more than the exploration of social enterprise and the Social Capitalist awards - two examples that set Fast Company ...READ»

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Shopsin's: Authentic to the Core

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 6:57 PM

"In his feature debut, noted artist, illustrator and video-director Mahurin celebrates one of his favorite restaurants -- Shopin's, a Greenwich Village institution. What emerges is a hilarious and heartfelt hymn to individuality, ...READ»

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Following the Green

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 6:08 PM

One of the most obvious ways to shed light on how social networks function and how brands move along networks is to look at the Green Movement. It demonstrates the slow adaptation of “all brands green” as fostered by information ...READ»

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Want a Better Staff? Try Following This Lead.

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 5:54 PM

McKinney is an ad agency in Raleigh, NC that can't be ignored when it comes to retention and culture building. They live by their mantras and their dedication to living (figuratively) in the world of possibilty - nothing is ...READ»

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Blogging for Business?

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 5:16 PM

Nicolas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University wrote in the last issue of the new Yorker that blogs, useful and often times fun as they may be, have not yet risen "to the level of a journalistic ...READ»

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Grassroots Innovation

BY Jennifer RiceTue Aug 15, 2006 at 4:44 PM

Microsoft is the latest company to capitalize on the "customer-made" trend. According to the Mercury News, any game enthusiast can now create video games for the Xbox 360 video console. "(Microsoft) will make available ...READ»

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How You Can Investigate Congressional Malpractice

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 4:10 PM

The folks at the Sunlight Foundation are pioneering new ways for ordinary people to figure out bad politics, first Congresspedia, like Wikipedia for Congress. Today, they announce a project where bloggers and good governemnt types ...READ»

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How Good Is the Idea of Bootstrapping a Business?

BY Ashish KumarTue Aug 15, 2006 at 3:36 PM

Last week, I was having a telephonic conversation with somebody from one of India's most popular business magazine. The talk was about startups in general and drifted to lack of seed capital for India based startups. One question he ...READ»

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Security Changes Leading to Increase in Telecommuting?

BY Heather HamiltonTue Aug 15, 2006 at 2:25 PM

Some Recommendations for Making it Work I’m not an advocate of changing your lifestyle due to the fear of attack. So now I can’t bring my lip gloss and big bottle of water on flights. I’m already feeling a little chapped, but ...READ»

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Lame Language

BY Jeffrey CufaudeTue Aug 15, 2006 at 1:25 PM

From the Department of Someone Should Have Caught This: Have you noticed what the "puffer" machine many airports are now using says to you right before the test runs? Firing Jets. Seems like the wrong choice of words for an ...READ»

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Social Networking: A Status Report

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 12:53 PM

It's been a few years now since two business magazines named Social Networking Applications the Technology of the Year. I thought it might be worthwhile recapping how far we've come since then, and trying to understand why we haven't ...READ»

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The Shop Around the Corner (and in Your Mailbox, on Your iTunes...)

Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 12:47 PM

Lately I've been fascinated by the way design stores (online and brick and mortar) have been capitalizing on the blog, podcast and friendly video interview. Most design bloggers I know find these new techonologies helpful in ...READ»