Category: Regenerative Economy

  • Bonobos prefer to share food with strangers

    Bonobos prefer to share food with strangers Karl Bates-Duke, futurity.org DUKE (US) — For bonobos, building a social network and making new friends are as valuable as food, say researchers. If you opened a pack of gum while standing in line somewhere, would you give a piece to the coworker standing on one side of……

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  • Getting started with Pinterest for business

    Guest Blogger, smartblogs.com There’s no doubt that Pinterest is generating considerable amounts of referral traffic for businesses. Many people were using Pinterest for business by finding ways around the settings meant for personal users, but now Pinterest is officially open… Getting started with Pinterest for business Related articles Getting Visual with Pinterest Marketing Strategy –…

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  • 40 Things To Say Before You Die

    40 Things To Say Before You Die Jessica Hagy, forbes.com Before you’re sprawled on your deathbed, there are some things you real­ly have to say. They’re not com­pli­cat­ed. They’re not poet­ry. They’re just short sen­tences with big mean­ing. I hope they get you talk­ing. 40 “I… RT @Forbes: 40 things to say before you die…

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  • Lynda.com Deal Solidifies Online Education Boom

    Eric Markowitz, inc.com Inc.com staff Jan 16, 2013 Lynda.com, a 17-year-old online library of training videos, just raised $103 million, underscoring the massive online education boom. Forty years ago, the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment spent $16 bil­lion on work­forc… RT @Inc: Need proof that the online education boom is real? @Lynda just raised $103 million. http://flip.it/mXA94…

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  • Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email

    Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email Megan Garber, theatlantic.com Unless you hap­pen to get some sort of obses­sive com­pul­sive sat­is­fac­tion from keep­ing your inbox in ship­shape — and hey, if you do, more power to ya — deal­ing with email has got to be one of the most dead­en­ing aspects of any…

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  • How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing

    How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing And Wowed Customers By Ekaterina Walter, fastcompany.com As mar­keters, we talk a lot about real-time response and true social agili­ty. But very few brands were able to mas­ter the art. So is agile mar­ket­ing a myth? A lot of brands strug­gle with agili­ty in mar­ket­ing: think­ing on…

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  • 17 Career Lessons from Ideo’s David Kelley

    17 Career Lessons from Ideo’s David Kelley By Linda Tischler, fastcodesign.com David Kel­ley is well-known for his astute appli­ca­tion of design think­ing to many of life’s intractable prob­lems. Less known is that he’s also a ver­i­ta­ble Dr. Phil of good advice about life, careers, and the impor­tance of not being a… RT @FastCompany: “You’re the…

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  • Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics

    Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics By CARMEL MELOUNEY, fastcompany.com Researchers discover ways to identify the authors of anonymous online comments through linguistic analysis. If you want to ensure your anony­mous com­ments online real­ly do stay anony­mous, it’s prob­a­bly wise to start using leet­s­peak. … http://flip.it/IVsls Related articles Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users (disinfo.com)…

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  • 10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter

    10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter By Russell S. Reynolds, Jr., with Carol E. Curtis, fastcompany.com Whether you’re being interviewed to be an intern or a CEO, you’re going to run into a few notoriously tricky questions—here’s a road map of what you’ll be asked, and how to craft impressive answers to even…

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  • Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain

    Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent, telegraph.co.uk The works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth are “rocket-boosters” to the brain and better therapy than self-help books, researchers will say this week. RT @TelegraphSci: Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals http://flip.it/o4phh http://flip.it/iIR1N Related articles Difficult Texts Boost…

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