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Blog / ChangeThis
Don't Let the Sidewalk End: How To Create a Revolution
By Porchlight
"This manifesto is about creating revolutions. Not big political revolutions, although it could help there too, but revolutions of any size and in any field or industry. It is also about innovating, and how to be better at it and how innovations, properly nourished, are the catalysts of revolutions. To start with, we should all recognize that innovation is a process, not an event. When the process results in dramatic change, it is called a revolution. At any one time there are numerous revolutions underway that will affect our life. We have a choice – we can be a part of the revolution or we can deal with it when it comes. In our modern world I really don't think the latter option is a viable choice."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Happiness Advocacy, Or, How Positive Psychology Will Save Us From Zombies
By Porchlight
"Happiness. That feeling you get from StuffOnMyCat.com or Skyping with a far away friend. Side effects include: joy, contentment, glee, elation, and surges of confidence, hope, and gratitude. That happiness. If you're ready to throw in the towel (or this in the garbage), kindly allow me to clarify something. This ain't yo' momma's (or for that matter my momma's*) self-help book so don't get all judgmental. If MacGyver can stop a bomb with a toothpick, we can save the world with happiness. 'Fiction!' you say? It's even been scientifically proven. You see, it's all in the technique, my friends."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
Friday Links on a Monday Afternoon
By Porchlight
ChangeThis preparations and office birthday celebrations kept me from posting links on Friday, so I thought I'd remedy that by rustling some up for y'all this afternoon. ➻ "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. " So begins Allen Ginsberg's "Howl.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Gary Vaynerchuk and Joe Sorge
By Porchlight
Gary Vaynerchuk, author of the bestselling books Crush It! and The Thank You Economy, as well as a successful entrepreneur in the wine and media industries, and Joe Sorge, partner with Chris Brogan at Kitchen Table Companies and owner of a Milwaukee restaurant group that utilizes social media to build business (he and his restaurant, AJ Bombers, are profiled in Gary's book, The Thank You Economy), stopped by the 800-CEO-READ offices and talked about how companies can innovate with technology and marketing, and where the focus should be when using social media.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Inc. Leadership Conference
By Porchlight
On June 15-17, 2011, Inc. Magazine will be hosting it's Leadership Conference in Dallas, TX. At Inc.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Opportunism
Book Review by Porchlight
Opportunism is a bad word in our culture, and an excellent book released earlier this year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. To get a popular definition of the word, let's turn to our society's new reference of choice—Wikipedia. The entry on opportunism begins by describing it as "the conscious policy and practice of taking selfish advantage of circumstances, with little regard for principles.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2011 Pulitzer Prize - Is There No Justice?
By Porchlight
Seth Godin wrote last October that, "If there's justice, [Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants] will win the Pulitzer Prize. And, while I think there remains some justice in the world regardless of the fact that it did not, we would agree that it deserved at least a nomination in the general nonfiction category (something another of our favorite books, Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain, did happily receive). But, I'm sure that the book that won the category—Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer—is not at all undeserving.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
Content Rules, Oh Yes It Does! - A Guest Post from Phil Gerbyshak
By Porchlight
I was pretty annoyed when RadioShack started calling themselves "The Shack. "* Do they really think that it will make them hip and relevant to people trying to make sense of the digital world. Why not just try to resolve the very real issues in the organization and try to communicate better with customers (something they are notoriously bad at)?
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Gary Vaynerchuk in Milwaukee
By Porchlight
We've talked about Gary Vaynerchuk's new book The Thank You Economy, and are very excited to see him coming to Milwaukee to talk directly about some of the ideas in his book. And what exactly are those ideas? Renowned entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk reveals how companies big and small can scale that kind of personal, one-on-one attention to their entire customer base, no matter how large, using the same social media platforms that carry consumer word-of-mouth.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Today We Are Rich
By Porchlight
Today We Are Rich: Harnessing the Power of Total Confidence by Tim Sanders, Tyndale House Publishers, 190 Pages, $19. 99, Hardcover, March 2011, ISBN 9781414339115 Tim Sanders wrote an odd little book in 2002 that went on to sell tons of copies. That odd little book was called Love is the Killer App, and it continues to sell today.
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