Tags: New York Times Silk Soymilk Energy Star Campbell's Labels for Education Bonneville Environmental Foundation WhiteWave Foods Thomas Friedman General Mills BoxTops for Education Green Tag Wind-Powered Cause MarketingAs I write this, I don’t know exactly where the electricity that powers my computer comes from. I

Tags: Social Media Big Blue View Bryant University Bulldogs Ed Valentine New York Giant I love it when I find a great examples of strengthening a social culture in unexpected places. First, First, I have to make a confession. I’m a huge football fan.

Tags: Social Media Andrew Sullivan CNN Iranian election New York Times Tom Watso There has been much ado over the last two days over the role of Twitter in reporting and spurring on the election protests in Iran. The outrage of Twitterers that cable news wasn’t covering the election swayed the MSM, particularly CNN, according to the Times.  The Revolution

Tags: The New York Times Social Media Leonard Witt Steven Coll The New Yorker Jay Rosen Washington Post Book Revie Please don’t let the title of this post give you the impression that I disdain newspapers or journalists.  The journalists that I know are amazingly smart sponges of information and very diligent in their pursuit of interesting and informative stories.

Tags: Social Media MBA Amdan Rose Kiva David Renz David Berlin Johnson AIG New York Times carie lewis Cluetrain Manifesto Premal Sha According to this article in the Times yesterday, Business Schools are struggling to figure out what they should be teaching their students to stop producing Gordon Gekkos who are primarily interested in short-term profits. That’s That’s easy, and I have the answer and am willing to give it to them for free! They

Komen for the Cure Greater Atlanta Affiliate and the Atlanta AIDS Partnership Fund (AAPF), has announced the live auction items for its 2009 event on Monday, August 31st at 55 Allen Plaza in Downtown Atlanta.  Patrons will have the opportunity to bid on a variety of items and unparalleled opportunities during the fashionable fête, including a unique Napa Valley wine experience for four and a New York Fashion Week getaway that includes coveted tickets for the Jason Wu runway show for his Spring 2010 Collection. New York Fashionista Fantasy Trip Grab your best girlfriend and

Here is a good New York Times article summarizing some of the latest research on the ways that multistaksing robs your producitivy. "A man's gotta know his limitations" Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry Callahan I've been writing lately about the Attention Economy and its implications on communications strategies for nonprofits. The other aspect of the Attention Economy that affects all of us is personal productivity.

At least, that's how it seems based on his recent New York Times piece, Would You Let This Girl Drown? Nicholas Kristof thinks we are lame. Railing the world's lack of attention to the crises in Darfur in other humanitarian disaster zones, he puts part of the blame on the nonprofit organizations that work in those areas: ... humanitarians are abjectly ineffective at selling their causes.

It’s not the New York Times, to be sure.But there’s an interesting side benefit to being quoted in Pizza Today; you get a special voucher that’s accepted at most small pizza parlors across the country that ...Tags: Tags: New York Times Cause Marketing Forum David Hessekiel Pizza Toda Along with David Hessekiel of the Cause Marketing Forum, I was quoted in the April 2009 issue of Pizza Today on the subject of cause marketing (the article "Just Cause" begins on page 55.)It’s

A New Rigor is Found In Arguments for Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe most lasting rebuke of corporate social responsibility came from Milton Friedman, the small of stature economist who even in death continues to cast a huge intellectual shadow.In September 1970 Friedman wrote “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profit,” for the New York Times Magazine. In it, he argued ...Tags: Tags: Milton Friedman University of Utah Paul Godfrey Giving USA New York Times Magazine Corporate Social Responsibilit