Incent Your Employees to Become Thought Leaders in Your Field »

Pay your employees to blog. Better yet, pay them to generate leads. How much are you willing to pay for each net-new form-filled-out-and-white-paper-downloaded attendee to the next webinar -$50? $100? What are...

Sexist? Maybe. Interesting and culturally relevant? Absolutely. »

Dockers’ new “wear the pants” ad campaign has ired some who claim its message to be sexist.  You can click the image for a larger size. I fired off a...

DIY – Graph Your Email Relationships with your Co-workers »

Quick note:you can click on all of these images and they zoom up all cool-like so you can get a better look Using NodeXL,  a super-cool plugin for Microsoft Excel, you...

Population Density and the Local College Population »

A recent Question and Answer article at Time.com titled “Why New York City is Greener than Vermont” poses the reality that smaller cities and urban environments do have larger...

Appalachian State University Fundraising for Tuition in Belize »

The Tumul K’in Center of Learning is a Maya traditional high school in Blue Creek Village, Belize that focuses on offering its students a curriculum that includes both modern skills...

Sarkozy to Include Happiness as Economic Indicator »

Today French President Nicolas Sarkozy described his intent to create a happiness indicator for the French economy, a metric focused on maintaining an account of development of well-being instead of...

Offbeat DIY – Graph Your Email Relationships with your Co-workers

DIY – Graph Your Email Relationships with your Co-workers »

Quick note:you can click on all of these images and they zoom up all cool-like so you can get a better look Using NodeXL,  a super-cool plugin for Microsoft Excel, you can (relatively) easily graph the...

November 4 2009 / No comment / Read More »
environment

Geo-Engineering and Climate Change: Can Artificial Tree Farms Really Be the Answer? »

Geo-Engineering and Climate Change: Can Artificial Tree Farms Really Be the Answer?

An article at BBC news states that a “forest of 100,000 ‘artificial trees’ could be deployed within 10 to 20 years to help soak...

Aug 28 2009 / No comment / Read More »

UConn Misses the Boat in Pond Clean-up Effort »

UConn Misses the Boat in Pond Clean-up Effort

Mansfield Today printed an article about a "sustainable" clean-up of a pond at the University of Connecticut. While the researchers are pleased to be...

Aug 4 2009 / 2 comments / Read More »

Cash for Clunkers: Part II – and there may not be a Part III »

Cash for Clunkers: Part II – and there may not be a Part III

careless largesse or necessary investment? Just a few hours ago, it has been reported that the CARS program may have run out of gas....

Jul 31 2009 / 3 comments / Read More »

TAP’dNY: The Rise of Common Asset Networks »

TAP’dNY: The Rise of Common Asset Networks

Treehugger.com reported this afternoon on a new network of businesses that will permit New Yorkers to refill their water bottles, rather than having to...

Jul 30 2009 / 9 comments / Read More »
economics Population Density and the Local College Population

Population Density and the Local College Population

A recent Question and Answer article at Time.com titled “Why New York City is Greener than Vermont” poses the reality that smaller cities and urban environments do have larger carbon foot prints,...

Sep 30, 2009 / More »
marketing Incent Your Employees to Become Thought Leaders in Your Field

Incent Your Employees to Become Thought Leaders in Your Field

Pay your employees to blog. Better yet, pay them to generate leads. How much are you willing to pay for each net-new form-filled-out-and-white-paper-downloaded attendee to the next webinar -$50? $100? What are you spending on...

Jan 4, 2010 / More »
behavioral economics Choosing a Path – why we hate it and why it makes change so difficult

Choosing a Path – why we hate it and why it makes change so difficult

We don’t like commitment and researchers have found that we avoid it at our own expense. What that means is that in order to encourage people to do something your option has...

Aug 11, 2009 / More »
branding Narragansett Beer a part of the Gates-Crowley-Obama trifecta

Narragansett Beer a part of the Gates-Crowley-Obama trifecta

Update the third: It looks like the beers that got the nod were both predicatble and wildcards.  Obama went with a Bud Light – as predicted, Gates’ choice was Sam Adams Light –...

Jul 28, 2009 / More »

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