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April 11, 2011

Curation Nation: How to turn information overload to your advantage

April 11, 2011 by Simon Mainwaring

There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention. As Stephen Rosenbaum outlines […]

April 7, 2011

Stephen Johnson: Building community using social technology

April 7, 2011 by Simon Mainwaring

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5sJQJYknsc As part of We First thinking, I have championed the use of social technology to scale positive chnage. a shift in the way brands and their communities relate. I had the pleasure of speaking to Stephen Johnson at SXSW about exactly how they are using a community engine to do just that. Here’s some …

April 5, 2011

Why our ability to believe precedes our capacity to achieve

April 5, 2011 by Simon Mainwaring

Today I wanted to share with you a new book by Tim Sanders called Today We Are Rich. I first heard about Tim when he wrote his New York Times bestselling book, Love is the Killer App. Since then, I’ve known him to be an inspiring business leader and author and his latest book is …

April 3, 2011

Why caring for your customers is good for business

April 3, 2011 by Simon Mainwaring

I wanted to share with you an inspiring example of how a corporation is reaching out to its customers in a meaningful way. The brand in question is called Panera Cares Café. As you walk inside the store, everything looks exactly the same as every one of the other Panera Bread restaurants across the United …