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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
"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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
