Ford's Nancy Lee Gioia On Leading Where The Rubber Meets The Road In her 30 years with Ford Motor Company, Nancy Lee Gioia’s learned a thing or two about teamwork, sparking innovation, and being a driving force in what was once considered a man's industry.
Updated Thu Feb 9, 2012
The Ultimate Crisis-Communications Checklist: 6 Steps To Master Your Disaster Whether you’re digging your way out of a negative PR avalanche or simply need to scrub a less-than-squeaky-clean outburst, here are tips from branding experts on how to handle public outrage with grace and style.
Updated Tue Feb 7, 2012
5 Early Birds Share Everyday Productivity Strategies We can't all be morning people, but we can crib from the caffeine-stained playbooks of successful early risers. Here's how.
Updated Mon Feb 6, 2012
Be Like Mark: 8 Ways To Emulate Facebook's Zuckerberg, The Unlikely Leader Whether you love him, hate him, or are just a little jealous of his newly minted multi-billionaire status, you have to admit that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, has made some visionary leadership moves. Here's what the rest of us can learn from his controversial reign.
Updated Fri Feb 3, 2012
Leadership Lessons From Community Maven Tara Hunt: When Not To Listen To The Crowd Any entrepreneur or community-building connector worth their salt should know when to crowdsource, and when to listen to their inner voice.
Updated Tue Jan 24, 2012
Cinchifieds' Simple, Grand Plan To Disrupt The Classified-Ad Space Watch out, Craigslist: Cinchified aims to match buyers and sellers in a ridiculously simple way.
Updated Fri Jan 20, 2012
For Brands, Twitter's Enhanced Profile Pages Make Every Tweet Count It’s still officially in velvet-rope mode, but Twitter’s enhanced profile pages are heavily in play for those brands among the first to sign up. So how are the early reviews? HP, Best Buy, and JetBlue reveal how they're using the new service so every tweet sings.
Updated Fri Jan 20, 2012
Chobani Yogurt Tickles The Tastes Of Pinterest Addicts, And So Can Your Brand There's a new social media platform every minute, it seems, and the darling of the moment is Pinterest. Here are some expert tips from Chobani Yogurt's social media team on how to get beyond flavor of the week.
Updated Wed Jan 18, 2012
Tips On Finding An Accelerator To Ignite Your Startup Accelerators offer hands-on help from experienced mentors, sources for seed capital, and sometimes even co-working locations, and give entrepreneurs what they need to take a startup from concept to market more quickly and effectively than if they go it alone. Here's how you can get connected.
Updated Tue Jan 17, 2012
GLO Gaming's Lindsey Port Helps Brands Meet Gamers Where They Live “Games have a huge audience and companies are sitting on mountains of unmonetized content,” says Lindsey Port, the founder of GLO Gaming, the fast-growing online and mobile ad platform that helps big brands find new and engaging ways to reach gamers during their daily "happy time."
Updated Wed Jan 11, 2012
How To Rock Social Media: 5 Tips From Nic Adler, Owner Of The Roxy Nic Adler's blogged, tweeted, and Myspaced his way to keeping The Roxy, his 40-year-old music venue, fresh for its fans. As the social media landscape changes, here's how he's staying on top.
Updated Tue Jan 10, 2012
Passion Play: LockerDome Wants To Win By Building A Better Facebook For Athletes LockerDome's social network for amateur sports clubs and professional players just got a $750,000 capital injection. Square's Jim McKelvey, one of LockerDome's backers, says passion is its competitive advantage.
Updated Thu Jan 5, 2012
Pivotshare Believes Your Digital Media Is Worth Money Pivotshare wants you to make money on your digital media. The social content creation platform isn't aiming to be the next YouTube. Founder Adam Mosam says he wants experts, businesses, and enthusiasts to dust off their libraries and start earning.
Updated Thu Dec 22, 2011
Clean Up In Aisle 5: Lessons From Lowe's And KAYAK's Consumer Controversy Both companies yanked ads from The Learning Channel’s "All-American Muslim." That's when the trouble started. But all is not lost--companies and brands that want to avoid losing customers because of a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease can find their way back again.
Updated Wed Dec 21, 2011
5 Lessons On Branding Your Business Socially Vivaldi Partners, an international brand consultancy, just put out its Social Currency 100, which ranks the social branding efforts of companies across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Here are five businesses that stand out.
Updated Tue Dec 20, 2011
One Kings Lane's Doug Mack Makes Every Home A Castle Launching a glossy home-furnishing flash sales site just as the U.S. housing market was in free-fall may have seemed like folly--but today, One Kings Lane has 2 million registered users and is valued at $440 million. CEO Doug Mack tells Fast Company how the company's true leadership in reinventing the home-decor industry propelled its success.
Updated Mon Dec 19, 2011
Ariel Zwang Wields Private-Sector Tactics To Create Safe Horizon For Women & Children Safe Horizon, the largest nonprofit provider of domestic-violence aid services in the U.S., is thriving under CEO Ariel Zwang, thanks to shrewd tactics she's taken from her experience in the private sector.
Updated Wed Dec 14, 2011
Going Boldly Where No Startup Has Gone Before, Babelverse Aims To Make The Universal Translator A Reality Josef Dunne and Mayel de Borniol envision a world where everyone can communicate effortlessly--while speaking their own native language. (Yep, like in Star Trek.) Their project, Babelverse, is launching at LeWeb this week.
Updated Tue Dec 6, 2011
ShareThis, Not That: The Social Quality Index Will Measure Your Websites' "Socialness" It's the first measure of site rankings across 27 key categories, and it lets publishers monetize content and advertisers identify receptive audiences. But can it make ShareThis profitable? That's the task at hand for former Jupiter Media Metrix founder Kurt Abrahamson, now leading the company.
Updated Thu Dec 1, 2011
Do u h8 h8? DoSomething.org Wants Teens To Text For Social Good :) Through a new membership model, Do Something is counting on text messages to create a movement of 5 million teenage activists by 2015. Can they get Generation Text to care about poverty, hunger, homelessness, and disease?
Updated Tue Nov 29, 2011
