As GOOD magazine reported yesterday, Alex Bogusky and John Bielenberg, have launched a new social entrepreneurship platform called COMMON that is part incubator and part creative community that enables collaboration to find better solutions to pressing social problems. Bogusky, who transformed Crispin, Porter, Bogusky into a creative powerhouse, Rob Schuham, former head of the marketing agency AMG and think […]
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Here’s a link to five minutes of video from my seminar yesterday with Alec Ross from the U.S State Dept.. The topic was: ‘The How of Social media: Make or Break Lessons in Today’s Most Powerful Instrument of Change’. Plus a synopsis of the talk with hyperlinked case studies can be found here. Thank you again […]
Read MoreThis week’s book review and giveaway is ‘First as Tragedy, then as Farce’ by Slavoj Zizek. It’s a zestful and intelligent critique of contemporary capitalism in which Zizek asserts capitalism is completely irrational in a way that is impossible to ignore considering the recent financial crisis. Using this example, as well as many others in recent […]
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