Google+ pushes better engagement with "permission marketing" principles.

From the self-reliance of yesterday to the radical connectedness of today.

Corporation 20/20 – Designing for Social Purpose What is the core purpose of the corporation? How should it be designed to seamlessly blend sustainability  into its design, ownership, governance, strategy and practices? Corporation 20/20 is an international, multi-stakeholder initiative that seeks to answer these questions. Its goal is to develop and disseminate a vision, pathway for the 21st century corporation in which social purpose ...

Like new-born hearts, beating and radiating from many locations and in all directions, the Occupy Movement is reframing our environmental and social problems as the symtoms of one root cause: the concentration of wealth and its corruptive influence on business and government. The vibrancy of this movement is giving courage to many, and may even shift the way the Tea Party thinks about the real problems now facing America.

What is HTML5, and why it will save the web from itself HTML5 is designed to fix all those problems in one grand transition to a massively overhauled version of the web’s most popular language: HTML. The new version makes media — especially video — into a first class citizen, allowing it to be streamed natively without fiddling with plug-ins or rifling ...

Many of you know that I write a lot about engagement and think about it as "the process of building relationships with people and putting those relationships to work to accomplish some goal." This exercise is designed to help you better balance this tension between tasks and relationships.

The Zombie map of the world | News | guardian.co.uk What happens when you ask Google Maps for the location of zombies around the world? I’ve always seen our fascination with zombies as a kind of metaphor for feelings of alienation – you know the kind that tend to come with the trappings of modern life. That’s why I found ...

What we are seeing in Occupy Wall Street and related events around the country is our youth, at least some small segment of it, telling us that everything is not alright. They are telling us that our social fabric is stretched to a dangerous point of fraying.

Small-Town Gossip Moves to the Web, Anonymous and Vicious – NYTimes.com The same Web sites created as places for candid talk about local news and politics are also hubs of unsubstantiated gossip, stirring widespread resentment in communities where ties run deep, memories run long and anonymity is something of a novel concept. A generation ago, even after technology had advanced, ...

Netflix is slowly exploding all its goodwill with customers, through a series of decisions on pricing and reshaping its service offerings. It's been a bad six months for the company, and I don't see things turning around for them again for a while ... if ever. It's too bad. It's a good company that just made some bad decisions.