How To Bring Out The Magic In Marketing Whether you're trying to sell whisky or get people to adopt dogs, marketing can be magical when there's a deep understanding of both an organization's culture and its strategic needs.
Updated Fri Mar 9, 2012
After The Revolution, Enter The Evolutionary Evolutionaries contribute to incremental changes that build to points of rapid transformation. With self-empowered mass communication playing such an important role in effecting change today, the everyday, common evolutionary is more empowered than ever.
Updated Fri Mar 2, 2012
Why Planned Parenthood Should Change Its Name Renaming Planned Parenthood to reflect its true role as a giver of women's health care would be a hell of a powerful branding move, one that could relegate abortion to 3% of the conversation instead of 100%, and galvanize the mission of serving women and thereby men, family, and society.
Updated Mon Feb 13, 2012
The Power Of The Pop-Up Storefront Cities worldwide are rebuilding their identities and rejuvenating their centers with the help of pop-up shops and workspaces for nonprofit ventures.
Updated Fri Feb 3, 2012
Listening To The Super-Charged "Change Generation" Each generation throughout history is a change generation. And yet, what is coming next is big. Here's how to start a conversation with the digital natives.
Updated Thu Jan 26, 2012
5 Ways To Discover And Develop Your Unique Strengths As much as we love a business visionary, we are not them, and never could be. All leaders have their own unique talents, which they will use in different ways to bring out the best in themselves and others. Here are 5 ways to discover your own strongest qualities and put them to work in business and in life.
Updated Sat Jan 14, 2012
How One Encounter With Steve Jobs Remapped My Future When Steve Jobs shared his vision regarding the future of personal computing at a 1981 conference, it was as if he parted a veil and we could see directly into that future--of which we suddenly wanted to be a part.
Updated Thu Jan 12, 2012
How A 21-Year-Old Design Student's Sleeping-Bag Coat Could Break The Cycle Of Homelessness As a design student in Detroit, Veronika Scott was keenly aware of homeless people suffering deeply during the relentless winters. She created The Detroit Empowerment Plan to provide much-needed warmth to the city's 20,000 street dwellers; but her coat-making project could ultimately help get people off the streets permanently.
Updated Thu Jan 12, 2012
For Millennials, Work And Life Are About Cooperation, Not Competition What happens when schools and universities train future professionals and contributors for a marketplace that is in flux--or doesn't exist at all? That's the question Malcolm Harris and Neal Gorenflo, founder of Shareable.net, tackle in their new book, "Share or Die: Youth in Recession."
Updated Thu Dec 22, 2011
Likeonomics: How To Make Your Brand More Believable The most likable brands are the ones that we believe in, talk about, and get inspired by. In a society of constant manipulation, there are seven key ways to overcoming the “believability” crisis.
Updated Thu Aug 18, 2011
China’s Clean-Energy Ambitions And The Role Of The U.S. While we in the West are focused on innovative thinking, China is focused on innovative doing: they know that if they can make one, they can make a million; and in the energy field, this is increasingly becoming their edge.
Updated Wed Aug 10, 2011
What Businesses Can Learn From Innovations In Education The goal of the NewSchools Venture Fund Summit is exploring the power of entrepreneurs to transform public education for underserved children. But the ideas for supercharging education have benefits that go way beyond the classroom.
Updated Fri Aug 5, 2011
The Future-Forward Company Called "L" Talia Frenkel is a photographer who created "L"--a condom company with a cause, to support women globally by focusing on their health, wellness, and sexual empowerment. Buy one of L's sustainable condoms, and one goes immediately to AIDS affected areas and the women living in these areas, promoting and sharing 'the love' around the globe.
Updated Mon May 9, 2011
Innovative Nature: Baking Biomimicry In Mother Nature has a product development process we would do well to emulate, she has in effect solved many sustainable design questions already if we examine her systems.
Updated Fri Apr 1, 2011
Expanding Innovation: The Beginning of B-2-B User Experience "We are moving from a post-industrial commodity production and product design focus to social innovation infiltrated design that taps into insights about the prevalent and emerging values and true needs of the user, the people."
Updated Thu Mar 31, 2011
The Future Is Co-Mingled Sensation and Co-opted Dreams We are, more and more, outsourcing our minds. Increasingly, the web of organic computation said to encompass human consciousness is distributing itself in a decentralized fashion, expanding outward, beyond the biological brain.
Updated Tue Mar 29, 2011
Citysumer Innovation: Miami Does Art Basel Urban areas are reinventing and reinvigorating themselves. With a focus on URBAN BOOM, URBAN MIGHT, and the spread of URBANE values, the future is about the city.
Updated Tue Mar 29, 2011
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Presents TechnoCRAFT: Design in the Age of Individuality – Hackers Modders, Fabbers and Tweakers "Bored with mass-production? Scared of cultural
globalization? Emotionally disconnected from what you consume? Designers
around the world are using technology to fight back and create a new economy
based on craft, individualization and mass participation in the process of
creation ... " That is according to Yves Behar of Fuse Project regarding the exhibit on
display July 22nd to October 3rd, 2010 at the Yerba Buena Center For the Arts. After hearing of and seeing the exhibit, we agree.
Thu Sep 9, 2010
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