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Saturday, December 26, 2009

links for 2009-12-26

  • From Seth Godin: A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stories and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer’s decision to choose one product or service over another. If the consumer (whether it’s a business, a buyer, a voter or a donor) doesn’t pay a premium, make a selection or spread the word, then no brand value exists for that consumer.
    (tags: branding)

Thursday, December 17, 2009

links for 2009-12-17

  • From Newsweek: "Celebrity" has become a tarnished word, for which we may largely credit the late Daniel Boorstin, the eminent historian who defined it in The Image, his 1961 survey of what he saw as the devolution of America. "The celebrity," Boorstin proclaimed, "is a person who is known for his well-knownness." Boorstin was writing at a time of great cultural flux, with the rise of the mass media and an effulgence of what he considered trash, and he placed celebrity within the larger context of an America whose citizens were increasingly enthralled by imitations of reality rather than by reality itself—by the pretense of substance without the actual substance. He coined the term "pseudo-event" to describe counterfeit happenings like press conferences, photo ops, and movie premieres that existed only to advertise themselves. He called celebrities human pseudo-events: hollow façades illuminated by publicity. So it has been ever since.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

links for 2009-12-16

  • Here’s a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, projects, sites, and other information that should give you at least a partial picture of what this thing we call the Internet really is, and where it came from.
  • From John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing
  • It took Guy Kawasaki a few months to figure out that all Twitter users are not created equal and don’t have the same agenda. It’s much more complex than “cool people talking about cool things.” In order for you to come up to speed faster than Guy did, here is an explanation of the principle types of Twitter users, how they predominantly tweet, and a recommended approach to each of them.
    (tags: twitter)
  • Dan Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, speaks with Fast Company about writing meaningful mission statements to lead your business.
  • From Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
  • Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
  • The team at MOVIECLIPS has worked tirelessly to collect clips and make them completely searchable by actor, title, genre, occasion, action, mood, character, theme, setting, prop, and even dialogue. This makes it simple to find a scene fast. We are hopeful that you’ll use this powerful search to discover new movies. For that reason, we've included links with each clip to easily buy or rent the feature-length movie.
  • CreateSpace provides inventory-free, physical distribution of books, CD and DVDs on Demand, as well as video downloads through Amazon Video On Demand™. We manufacture physical products when customers order so no pre-built inventory is needed. Through our service, you can sell DVDs, CDs, and books, for a fraction of the cost of traditional manufacturing, while maintaining more control over your materials. With our services, you can make your books, music and video available to millions of customers by selling on Amazon.com and on your own website with a customized eStore.
  • Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles offered by the American Council of Learned Societies in collaboration with nineteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers.
  • People want more from their work than a paycheck. They want to make a difference in the world around them, to be part of teams and organizations committed to a larger purpose, companies worthy of their trust and loyalty. The art of seeing things whole begins the simple affirmation that all things are connected. The more difficult thing is to recognize these connections in the midst of the complex challenge we face day-to-day, and to act in ways that reflect this recognition.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

links for 2009-12-15

  • From Seth Godin: We want to shake things up. More than seventy extraordinary authors and thinkers contributed to this ebook. It's designed to make you sit up and think, to change your new year's resolutions, to foster some difficult conversations with your team.
  • Turquoise Transports Us to an Exciting, Tropical Paradise While Offering a Sense of Protection and Healing in Stressful Times
  • Just a few of performers at Paul Winter's Winter Solstice Celebrations at the world's largest cathedral, New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Shown performers include: The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble, Davy Spillane and Theresa Thomason and the Paul Winter Consort.
    (tags: solstice music)
  • From Eamonn Kelly at Monitor: The geometry of sustained advantage is changing—permanently, irreversibly, and with profound consequences for every organization that wishes to grow, endure and make a difference. Watch this new video which explains the global changes taking place and how leaders can seize opportunities for lasting change and growth.
    (tags: innovation)
  • By Adam Kahane. Our two most common ways of trying to address our toughest social challenges are the extreme ones: aggressive war and submissive peace. Neither of these ways works. We can try, using our guns or money or votes, to push through what we want, regardless of what others want—but inevitably the others push back. Or we can try not to push anything on anyone—but that leaves our situation just as it is.A character in Rent, Jonathan Larson’s Broadway musical about struggling artists and musicians in New York City, says, “The opposite of war isn’t peace, it’s creation!” To address our toughest social challenges, we need a way that is neither war nor peace, but collective creation. How can we co-create new social realities?

Sunday, December 13, 2009

links for 2009-12-13

  • When we started charity: water in 2006, the first thing we did was fund 6 wells in Uganda, and take pictures of them. Then we brought the story of the lives changed in that community to everyone back home. We've been doing that ever since. Here, we'll continue to show you what the global need for clean water really looks like. Not through statistics or numbers, but through individual lives. Armed with cameras and GPS devices, we send photographers into the field to document the projects you help fund.