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Revving the Innovation Engine with a Killer Social Media App

Energy. Enthusiasm.  Optimism. Hardly words that come to mind when describing a 7:30 am meeting on a chilly Monday morning.  But the main dining room of Soby's on South Main Street in downtown Greenville, SC fairly crackled with ...READ»

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6 Reasons I Love Brains on Fire

This regional brand/identity player packs global punchREAD»

Road Rules - Rule 24

Get (street) smart.READ»

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Six Degrees of Sustainability: The Hottest Schools for Environmental Studies

In January, we reported on the 10 green jobs poised to carry us through the next decade. Five months later, the demand for those jobs is still growing strong--President Obama recently pledged $500 million for environmental job ...READ»

Soap Opera Sunday

Why Online Branded Entertainment Should Study Soap Operas

With so many companies in the past few years talking about producing online video and other forms of "branded entertainment," I'm amazed by how people often talk about these trends as if they are new. Radio and early television was ...READ»

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Who Benefits When Media Industries and Academics Dialogue?

In Monday's post, I wrote about the promise for dialogue between media studies/communication academics and media/corporate communication professionals. In my experience, when media industry practitioners and academics come together to ...READ»

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Boom Town, Soon Town

Another interesting comparative read is Business 2.0's March feature on the next boom towns (access code: B2MAR3140) -- "America's 20 hottest job markets" -- and Inc.'s March feature on the top 25 cities for doing business in ...READ»

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Motorhead Madness November's cover story had Fast Company readers revved up. We received a flood of responses, ranging from disbelief ("There are a ton of unsubstantiated claims in this article") to wild enthusiasm ("Johnathan ...READ»

Alaska's Career Ladders Project

Last week I was at the annual meeting of the Association of Computer-based Systems for Career Information. This year, for the first time, the meeting was held jointly with America’s Career Resource Network Association, and the two ...READ»

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Spreadable Media: A Cure for Viral Marketing

If a viral marketing campaign drops in a press release, is it really viral?READ»

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Breaking Down Advertising's Walls

In his blog here at Fast Company, Faris Yakob said that the advertising industry is no more, and now there's only the communication industry. Faris is quite right that the traditional walls and boundaries are shifting. As "Director of ...READ»

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10 Things Corporations Can Learn from Pro Wrestling

Recently, writing about the death of the incomparable Capt. Lou Albano, journalist Phil Reisman with The Journal News wrote: "Somebody once said that to understand America, you have to understand pro wrestling." If you're looking ...READ»

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39. Tilting at Windmills

Previous | Next The windmill dates back to at least the seventh century BC, but not even Don Quixote could've imagined what Thomas Wagner and his team completed last April: a wind turbine field five miles off the coast of ...READ»

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39. Tilting at Windmills

Previous | Next The windmill dates back to at least the seventh century BC, but not even Don Quixote could've imagined what Thomas Wagner and his team completed last April: a wind turbine field five miles off the coast of ...READ»

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Look Into Their Eyes

These people lost high-tech jobs to low-wage countries. Try telling them that offshoring is a good thing in the long run.READ»

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A $60 Million Recycling Plant, 500 New Call Center Jobs, and One New Business – Oh My!

It’s been a busy week in the Southeast. That’s A Lot of Bottles About 200 hundred people gathered at the new Spartanburg, South Carolina plant of the United Resource Recovery Corporation (URRC) to celebrate the farthest reaching ...READ»

Hope and Dreams

University of North Carolina professor Jim Johnson teaches business-school students, but his real mission is to build bridges.READ»

This Company's Seen the Future of Customer Service

And it's videoconferencing. Forget same-day service. Manufacturer Hartness International has invented minutes-later service.READ»

Innovation Reality Check

Innovative technology is inherently speedy.  And right now Twitter, the social media microblogging site of choice for marketers, mavens, and all manner of multi-taskers moves along at a rapid 140 character per tweet pace.  But you ...READ»