Are you in a struggle to get your job done and being held back by a manager who just doesn’t GET what you do or why you do it? They might be displaying some of these bad management traits (I gleaned this list from Goldsmith’s “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”: 1. Winning too much-the need to win at all costs. MORE >>

Is cause marketing just a gimmick to induce people to buy or does it really benefit the needy? That’s the tenor of a question posed recently by Bruce Bradley , fellow blogger, author of the forthcoming book ‘Fat Profits,’ and food industry consultant. I suspect Bradley meant that as an either/or question. But my answer to it, as posed, is 'yes.' MORE >>

Google is the great behemoth of web searching and video hosting. Google.com is default homepage in millions of browsers and YouTube has inspired citizen journalists in war-torn Syria and video mashups of cute kittens in suburbia. The grant goes up to $10,000 a month, though Google points out that the average payment is about $300. MORE >>

Agitator readers tend to reveal their true passion more often through direct emails to me and Roger than via public comments. Here’s an example, name removed, on a topic that might stir your juices. “Hello Agitator Editor, I am an online fundraising professional who has been in the “business” for almost 10 years now. MORE >>

Searching on Google is perhaps the single experience of the internet we all share. In the fine and flexible tradition of the English language, we turned the noun into a verb: to google (someone or something). The behemoth that is Google Inc. As is true of all things Google, you must have a free email account with Google. Let’s create one. MORE >>