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Claim Your Name on Reddit, Odeo, Twitter and 338 Other Networks at Once with KnowEm

If you don't want to run around creating profiles on every social network on the Web, there's a shortcut to maintaining a unified online identity. It's called KnowEm, and it lets you register your name (or brand) across a litany of ...READ»

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Melbourne Re-brands Itself With a $200,000 Logo--Will It Work?

Landor, the branding giant, takes aim at the city's brand--reflecting its ambitions to play on a larger stage.READ»

Ivan Glickman

Perception + Identity = Reality

Doing good is good for business.READ»

pinkberry

Pinkberry's Secret Recipe to Overnight Branding Success

With a personality every bit as sweet as a serving of pomegranate frozen yogurt topped with Fruity Pebbles, Pinkberry creative director Yolanda Santosa charmed the audience at the Y Conference with her secret recipe to branding the ...READ»

Pepsi Design

Pepsi Logo Design Brief: Branding Lunacy to the Max

A leaked pdf outlines the thinking behind the controversial new Pepsi logo. It may be one of the most ridiculous things ever perpetrated by somebody calling himself a designer.READ»

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Criminalizing False Identities: The End of Online Anonymity?

Lying about your identity on the Internet may no longer just earn you the scorn of your fellow online users – it could also be a criminal, jailable offense.READ»

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Why my design business is at its best when the national economy is at its worst

My design business is "crazy busy" right now - smack-dab in the middle of all the news about the horrible U.S. economy. I could currently be working night and day - everyday. In fact, I'm now scheduling projects at least a ...READ»

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On Celebrity Endorsements

So the buzz these days is that Crispin Porter + Bogusky is getting Jerry Seinfeld (to the tune of $10 million) to star in the upcoming ad campaign for Microsoft Vista alongside Bill Gates. There is a lot of skepticism, like MS ...READ»

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Say Hello to the Logo Police

The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that there is a large group of Chinese people that have been employed by the International Olympic Committee to walk around the Olympic venues and Village and PUT TAPE OVER ANY LOGO that ...READ»

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RASH IV

The final installment of Rash IV closed PUSH 2008. Jenni began by speaking about her third year in Rwanda - she was based in the capital, Kigali. Things were worse then they had ever been and the gap between reality and her ...READ»

Empowerment through Technology - Michael Furdyk

Michael Furdyk, one of North America’s leading technology entrepreneurs, closed out the presentations for PUSH 2008 discussing the challenges we face and how technology can empower us to improve health, the environment and ...READ»

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Technology Advances Rwanda - Antoine Bigirimana

Rwandan-American Antoine Bigirimana, co-founder and managing director of Thousand Hills Venture Fund (THVF), kicked-off the technology section of PUSH 2008 by discussing how technology has started to advance Rwanda into the 21st ...READ»

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The Polarizers and the Unifiers

"Who are the polarizers?" asked Anthea Butler, an Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester who specializes in African American religious history, American religious history, and women and gender ...READ»

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Challenge Day at PUSH 2008

In an extraordinary hour after lunch, Rich and Yvonne Dutra-St. John, founders of the Challenge Day, gave participants a taste of the transformative experience, which is now practiced with youth in almost all US states and ...READ»

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Youth, Religious Pluralism - Eboo Patel

  Dr. Eboo Patel followed the Redeemer Kids perfectly with his discussion on the importance of religious pluralism and its significance for the future on Tuesday morning to start the last day of PUSH 2008. Patel is ...READ»

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Al Jazeera's Mark Seddon

Heading up the political segment of PUSH 2008, "Leaders in Reverse: Playing Short-Term Gains against Long-Term Needs," U.N. correspondent for Al Jazeera English Mark Seddon decided to speak from the platform of personal ...READ»

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Clyde Prestowitz - Leaders in Reverse

Clyde Prestowitz, author of Trading Places, Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East, and current member of both the Intel Policy Advisory Board and the U.S. Export-Import Bank Advisory Board ...READ»

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"The Soul of Nairobi" - J.D. Steele

J.D. Steele closed out the first full day of PUSH 2008 on Monday evening with a performance about what he has been doing in Africa. He entertained the audience with a cultural experience and music. A little background: Steele ...READ»

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Consumers leading Institutions - Nate Garvis

Nate Garvis, Vice President of Government Affairs for Target Corporation, spoke in the political section of PUSH 2008 about leadership in reverse. He is responsible for political, legislative and regulatory affairs at the ...READ»

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"Flatness: Realities and Myths" - Katherine Marshall

After a half-hour break, Katherine Marshall closed the section on economics at PUSH 2008. Marshall, a senior fellow at Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and a senior advisor for the World ...READ»

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"An Economy of Integrity" - Jonathan Greenblatt

Entrepreneur in socially responsible business, chief executive officer ofGOOD and co-founder of Ethos Water Jonathan Greenblatt brought his business ethos to his Monday morning talk.   Greenblatt began speaking ...READ»

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A Zone of Discovery

Cecily Sommers, futurist and founder of the Push Institute, addressed PUSH attendees Monday morning to set the tone and pace for the next two days. She prodded complacency and demanded future-oriented questions for the duration of ...READ»

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Behind the Scenes: A Peek at Reality - Chandron Nair

Internationalist Chandran Nair opened the economics section of PUSH 2008. He is the founder and chief executive of the think tank, Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT), based in Hong Kong. His work is defined by the questions ...READ»

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RASH 1

Activist, writer, performer and executive director of WITNESS Jenni Wolfson kicked off The Push Institute’s 2008 Conference with the first installment of her play RASH that will be performed in four sections over the course of ...READ»

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PUSH 2008: The Fertile Delta

Facing the future is about asking the right questions, not about trying to find the answers. The Push Institute is a non-profit think tank that hosts an annual conference for organizations and individuals who wish to influence ...READ»

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