By Faiz Shakir, The Progress Report. Posted December 10, 2009. This story was written by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Zaid Jilani, and Alex Seitz-Wald. As delegates from countries across the globe gather at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the world is waiting to see if international leaders will [...]
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Nicholas Kristof’s Advice for Saving the World
What would happen if aid organizations and other philanthropists embraced the dark arts of marketing spin and psychological persuasion used on Madison Avenue? We’d save millions more lives. By Nicholas D. Kristof | Outside Online | December 2009 In 2004, I visited the Darfur area three times, trying to bear witness to the slaughter of [...]
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Barnes & Noble Nook Review: Pretty Damn Good
GIZMODO | By Wilson Rothman | December 7, 2009 A Two-Horse Race Do this now: Disregard all other ebook readers on the market besides Nook and Kindle. Unless you plan to get all of your books from back-alley torrents, or stick to self-published and out-of-copyright PDFs, you are going to need a reader with a good content-delivery [...]
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Can Anyone Stop Facebook?
Twitter couldn’t. Google couldn’t … By Farhad ManjooPosted Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, at 5:20 PM ET Nearly a year ago—in the course of cajoling people into joining the ubiquitous social network—I marveled at Facebook’s astonishing growth rate: The site had just signed up its 150 millionth member, and about 370,000 people were joining every day. [...]
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10 Expert Tips for Designing a One Page Portfolio
Written by Joshua Johnson, On 28th November 2009. Filed in Inspiration, Layouts. Once upon a time, designers would lug unwieldy physical portfolios from interview to interview to showcase their work. This tactic is steadily being replaced with sending out emails containing links to an online portfolio. A portfolio website is becoming an essential marketing tool [...]
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Not your grandmother’s Thanksgiving service
By Anthony B. Robinson A gathering tonight on Phinney Ridge goes beyond ecumenical, or even most interfaith services. It’s a true celebration of Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, and Islamic beliefs. Different churches joining together for a community Thanksgiving Eve or Day service is nothing new. For a long time now the Methodists, Presbyterians, and Lutherans along [...]
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Long-term use of mobile phones ‘may be linked to cancer’
Long-term use of mobile phones ‘may be linked to cancer’
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in conversation with Altimeter Group Founder Charlene Li
Speakers: Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook Moderator: Charlene Li, Founder, Altimeter Group With more than 300 million active users, Facebook has become known worldwide for connecting people with their friends, family and other people they know. Now its also becoming a central way to connect with the businesses, celebrities, musicians and public figures people [...]
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Sales talk that is essential.
8 Sales Questions You Can’t Live (and Sell) Without! by Deborah Johnson on July 21, 2009 at 10:30pm Questions help you uncover what you need to know to sell. Without good ones, you’re just stumbling in the dark. Make no mistake about it; questions are the key to good selling. Good questions will get you [...]
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Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer: Traditional media will not bounce back
“No longer do you build discrete components and initiatives – a website, a product, advertising messages/campaigns – you now need to build a dynamic socially networked ecosystem of give and take, your web as the plasma-like glue that holds it together, delivering content and experience with many tentacles that, if you emotionally resonate with wants [...]