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• Quick, Hide the Solar Panels!

  
  Solar Headlines — Authority: 144
  A new arts center shows how to make solar panels look good, without camouflaging them. A new building by LIN Architects proves that a wealth of technical solutions for solar panels can be accomplished with sharp design. The International Centre for Design in Saint-Etienne, France is a series of public arts spaces, ...
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• African-American Workers Laid Off in Strikingly Bleak Numbers

  
  Education Investment Forum — Authority: 128
  Fast Company, where I maintain a blog, puts up some incredible analysis of a recent New York Times infographic, and its something that you should pay attention to, with your thinking cap situated firmly on your head. Take for example that the unemployment rate for what Fast Company describes as "black" men and women ...
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• The Ten Essential Renewable Energy Stories This Week

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 121
  news.JPG Well, its Friday, and for those of you that follow EnergyBoom you know what that means.  And, for those of you who are reading EnergyBoom for the first time, you are about to find out.
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• The Enemy of Innovation: The Phrase “prove it”

  
  HarperStudio — Authority: 515
  Check out Fast Company’s thought provoking Q&A with Roger Martin who explains why “you cannot prove a new idea in advance by inductive or deductive reasoning.” Martin cites A.G. Lafley at P&G as a rare example of a CEO who was able to look at the data provided by analysts, and then push it aside: ...
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• Shai Agassis Electric Car Networks Make The World A Better Place

  
  New articles on eBoom — Authority: 121
  agassi.jpg Shai Agassi is turning heads with his ideas about electric car networks, especially in Denmark.
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• Employee Engagement Lessons from Fast Company’s “30 Second MBA” Part 1

  
  Bringing Brands to Life! Remarkable Corporate Videos — Authority: 103
  I’m a big fan of Fast Company’s “ 30 Second MBA ” site. The minute it launched, I felt it offered a simple yet highly effective way for organizations to integrate social media concepts into their internal communication strategies. I wanted to know more. So I asked Ellen McGirt, the Senior Writer ...
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• 25 Of The Most Powerful and Influential Women in Social Media 2009 - Ron Hudson

  
  aliza sherman rants and raves — Authority: 407
  It’s time to celebrate! Please congratulate 25 of the Most Powerful & Influential Women in Social Media that were hand-picked by folks on twitter. Yes, 25! I decided to shorten this year’s list because of time constraints. Congratulations ladies and thank you for all that you do... via ...
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• Tech & Innovation Spending Show Corporations Are Recovering

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 135
  Despite cutting back on spending, big corporations actually expanded their R&D budgets by 5.7% in 2008, reports The New York Times . It’s only half as much as the increase in 2007, but it hints that research spending is one of the last things on the corporate chopping block and that the economic slowdown ...
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• Solve Problems By Being A Copycat

  
  Idea Sandbox — Authority: 112
  When faced with a challenge, instead of trying to solve the problem from scratch – find an analog. That is, a comparison model you can copy. Ask yourself who (or what) may have solved a problem similar to yours. Dan and Chip Heath recently wrote an article for Fast Company magazine, A Problem-Solver’s Guide to ...
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• Capitalism Isnt A Love Story: Noreena Hertz & The New World Order [Peasants Revolt]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 822
  "We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all," says Brian Griffiths , Goldman Sachs International Economic Adviser. But when does the inequality end? Noreena Hertz , rogue economist and capitalist reformer, says now . To my amusement, the Fast Company ...
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• Toyota Challenges Coulomb, Better Place With Solar-Powered EV Charging Station

  
  Solar Headlines — Authority: 144
  Until now, the EV charging station sector has been dominated by high-profile start-ups like Coulomb Technologies and Better Place. Toyota, determined not be left out of what promises to be a booming business, has decided to build charging stations of its own. And in what appears to be an attempt to one-up its ...
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• Celebrating The Masters of Design

  
  Internet Marketing Strategies - slymarketing — Authority: 122
  I’ve just received an interesting tip from David McGregor about Fast Company’s annual Masters of Design issue. As I was reading his email, I realized that I rarely write about design. That’s not because I think that design is not part of the marketing process, or that design is not as important as all the ...
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• The unholy child of anthropology and marketing? Or a great idea…or both?

  
  All This ChittahChattah — Authority: 129
  Michael Cannell posted yesterday at Fast Company on design firm Blu-Dot’s fascinating new campaign , in which they are going to give away chairs by leaving them on the streets of New York, and then use GPS embedded in the chairs to track them down. According to Michael Hart of Mono, the ad firm that developed the ...
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• Codas All-Electric Sedan Revs Up U.S. Auto Market

  
  Solar Headlines — Authority: 144
  Sliding into the drivers seat of Codas electric sedan for the first time, I looked around for clues. Heres 100 years of automotive history, reinvented -- whats different? No gear-shift, just a knob that engages the cars two speeds, forward and reverse. A battery-life gauge. Not much else. Then I pull into midtown ...
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• Innovation or Desperation?: Esquire To Release 3-D Issue

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 801
  Esquire is teasing its upcoming December issue as a new “living, breathing, moving, talking magazine,” using 3-D technology and augmented reality to integrate real images and graphics with both its articles and advertisements. With Robert Downey Jr. as its cover star, the issue (to be released November 9th) ...
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• Fast Company: Get Started Tips to Navigate Post-Recession, Pre-Recovery Flexible Downsizing

  
  work+life fit, inc. — Authority: 478
  Last week we heard from Scott Jones, a senior executive who is grappling with how to respond to an uneven recovery in his business. A year ago in the heat of the economic downturn, Jones’ company used organization wide salary cuts and furloughs to reduce operating and labor costs in order to minimize layoffs.  ...
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• Faceoff: Coleman steals Gretzky puck quote that T-Paw’s fond of

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 681
  Photo: governor.state.mn.us St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman caps off the long version of his new TV ad by quoting hockey great Wayne Gretzky’s advice to skate to where the puck will be. It’s a quote Gov. Pawlenty has been using for years, as Brian Bakst of the Associated Press notes. Indeed, it’s a ...
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• CMO 2.0 Influencer Conversation with Alan Webber, author and co-founder of Fast Company

  
  emergencemarketing.com — Authority: 486
  Having been a customer of Fast Company since the first release and having been an early advertiser in the magazine, I truly enjoyed having my CMO 2.0 Influencer conversation with Alan Webber, the co-founder of Fast Company, and most recently the author of a great book called Rules of Thumb . As usual, we started ...
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• News: Amazon Plans Kindle Reader for Mac (The Mac Observer)

  
  Technology News and Happenings - Techpresso.org — Authority: 453
  News: Amazon Plans Kindle Reader for Mac (The Mac Observer) Amazon is planning to bring a Kindle reader to the Mac platform, according to a report from Fast Company. The question came up after Microsoft announced during the Windows 7 launch this week that Amazon would release a Kindle reader for that OS, and an Amazon ...
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• Management books part 2

  
  Knights on the Road — Authority: 118
  Image via Wikipedia Management books part 2 Lead Well and Prosper . 15 Successful strategies for becoming a good manager. Nick McCormick. 2006. ISBN 9780977981335. A small book that would be very useful as a new manager handout. Simple, pragamatic yet as the author points out none of these are easy to do. Its ...
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