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Social Media as Time Transporter

Shel Horowitz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:59:28 -0500

Thirty-one years ago, the housemate with whom I’d found an apartment
moved out, and I invited a poet friend of mine to take his place. We
shared that apartment for several months, until he, too, moved on, and
another friend moved in.

Last weekend, I went to see that poet friend for the first time since
around 1980. We’d been completely out of touch–but about a year ago, a
mutual friend tracked my wife down on Facebook. Turns out that mutual
friend also convinced my old housemate to join Facebook, where we found
each other a month or so ago.

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Laptops for Kids and Shared Village-wide Cell Phones can Fight Systemic Deep Poverty

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:39:10 -0400

Horace Mann, founding President of Antioch College, famously said "Be ashamed to die until you have won one victory for humanity." Neither Nicholas Negroponte nor Iqbal Quadir will ever have to worry about shaming themselves in front of Horace Mann's ghost.

These two M.I.T. professors have both made substantial contributions in developing countries, bringing life-changing technology to villages that don't even have electricity or running water.

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When Social Media Trashes You...How Should You Respond?

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:40:10 -0400

I just read a very interesting article called "How to Weather a Twitterstorm"--and one of the most interesting parts was the comments, which included a whole lot of people who basically said that Twitter, Facebook and other social media are a marginal part of the overall audience, and kowtowing to them is a mistake.

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When Does Paying Referral Commissions Raise Ethics Questions?

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:07:07 -0400

At LinkedIn, a great discussion on <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&gid=54066&discussionID=2031924&commentID=2462364#commentID_2462364">when it is or isn't OK to pay referral fees</a>. I don't believe you have to be a member to see the conversation though you do if you want to make a comment (might have to join the group first, I don't know).

Here's my take.

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Obama Calls For Unity, Rallies Nation 212

priyabrata padhi — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:16:33 -0500

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The myth of the environment and recession...

Gareth Kane — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:00:49 -0500

...is that the environment and sustainability can only be addressed when there is plenty of money about.

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Madoff Scam May Be Worse Than Enron: Two Things You Can Do

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:33:20 -0500

Some experts say the Madoff meltdown will be worse than Enron.

Are you as sick and tired of this as I am? Enron fell apart in 2001. Michael Milken was indicted in 1989--that's almost 20 years ago! And now we find out that Bernard Madoff, former head of NASDAQ, took the whole financial system for an astonishing $50 billion, suckering investors in with the promise of outrageously good yields--the same week we find out Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich actually had the chutzpah to try to sell Obama's vacant Senate seat.

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BLUE GREEN ALLIANCE CONTINUES TO GROW WITH SEIU, LIUNA Alliance Expands Labor-Environmental Partnership for Good Jobs, Clean En

Meghan Krause — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:05:03 -0500

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What the Election Taught Us About Leadership and Marketing

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:29:40 -0500

Barack Obama's historic landslide
victory provides many lessons about leadership--and about successful marketing. To name some of them:

A transformative, emotion-based, positive campaign will trump a
narrow,negative, issues-based campaign. Obama inspired hope, and gave
millions of people a voice and interest in presidential politics that
they hadn’t had before. The last two party nominees to try this were
also successful: John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan (remember “It’s morning
in America”?)

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Are You Addicted To Being Addicted

Michael Searles — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:21:46 -0400

This
is the third and final part of this series of posts at www.TalkingSober.com where we have been
looking at the phenomenon of becoming addicted to the idea of
being addicted .

I am suggesting this phenomenon is an
evolutionary aspect of the modern day approach to 'recovery' that some
addiction professionals and counselors create.

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Sustainability is NOT optional

Ruth Ann Barrett — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:40:36 -0400

There is much talk in the news about how when the economy tanks, sustainability and its consumer-focused cousin, the Green movement, are moved aside.

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Alcohol Is Not The Enemy

Michael Searles — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:41:51 -0400

Today is Saturday.

Melbourne, Australia today is expecting a top temperature of 30 degrees Celsius (approximately 90 degrees Fahrenheit). Hot thirsty weather!

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Innovation that Mimics Nature Can Lead to Amaaing Things

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:44:32 -0400

It's a big challenge to the Darwinian notion of "survival of the fittest": research shows that the species who thrive in nature are not the most competitive but the most able to take advantage of--and sometimes adapt to--opportunities.

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Ignore the Last Post--It's Not Done Yet

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:25:21 -0400

Frist it wiped out what I'd written, and then it posted when I added a title. I will write the post in Word and paste it in shortly.

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AMEX $2.5mil Members Project

Karine Demurchian — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:41:15 -0400

I just learnt about this initiative this year and have submitted a project called Backyard Tree Nurseries. I'm waiting to hear whether our project made it to Top 25 projects, which will qualify it for Round 2 and possible winning of a share of $2.5mil split between top 5 winners.

http://www.membersproject.com/about/index.html

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Who and Why both Heaven and Hell were Created

David Gage — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:57:33 -0400

The Creation of Heaven and Hell

Chronologically speaking the concept of that place known as Heaven was created before that other place known as Hell. But where and when did these places come to be, at least in the minds of most people on this planet?

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Green MBA Trend: Are Tehse Students Ready to Make A Difference?

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:41:04 -0400

Thanks to the How Online blog, I found these two articles--and their juxtaposition is quite telling:

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Social Responsibility in Guatemala

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:00:15 -0400

The reason I took several weeks off from my weekly Fast Company blog was that I was traveling in Guatemala

If you'll allow me the hubris of sharing an outsider's perspective after spending just a few weeks there, I'd like to make some observations:

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Buckminster Fuller Still Relevant in Today's Energy Crisis--Nukes are Not

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:57:38 -0400

Yeah, here we go again: gas gets expensive, and people who should know better start talking about nuclear.

If ever there was a really dumb idea, splitting atoms to generate electircity is it. This is something I know about: Back in 1974, I did a college research paper on the plusses and minuses of nuclear energy...and I discovered lots of minuses and not a single plus. My first book, co-authored with Richard Curtis and Elizabeth Hogan, was about this.

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Head Firmly in the Sand: Carbon Belch Day

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:08:32 -0400

Need an example of head-in-the-sand behavior! June 12, I found out on the radio tonight, was Carbon Belch Day:

Proud of their antisocial tendencies, these yo-yos wanted to be as
environmentally destructive as possible that day, asking people to unleash their maximum carbon footprint in order to

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the Inside Out

Mark Goulston — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:33:16 -0400

So if you're walking down the street sometime
and you should spot some hollow ancient eyes,
don't you pass them by and stare
as if you didn't care.
Say, "Hello in there. Hello."
- Bette Midler (song and lyrics by John Prine)

You don't have to be ancient to have hollow eyes. Look anyone in the eye who has been traumatized by war, rape or a horrendous natural disaster and you will see that they are not all there.

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GOP Promotes Neanderthal US Energy Policy

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:46:15 -0400

The U.S. Senate did a couple of very stupid things regarding energy policy yesterday. In both cases, Democrats were unable to get the 60 votes needed to stop a Republican filibuster.

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The Future of Green... Everything (Cross-Post)

Brian Reich — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:18:40 -0400

(I posted this earlier today on my Fast Company Experts blog and
was encouraged to cross-post it here. I hope you will read it and
contact me if you are interested in collaborating on this important
topic)

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Tim Tymchyshyn — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:32:37 -0400

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The Story of the Incredibly Shrinking Brands And The Role Values Can Play in Making Them Big Again

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:01:50 -0400

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