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July 2, 2009

Mayo Social Media

If you are interested in how an organization incorporates social networking into its operation, check out an interview that Guy Kawasaki conducted with Lee Aase of the renowned Mayo Clinic. Aase explains the history of the Clinic's use of social media and how effective it has proven.

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Posted, in Social Innovation, Technology, by Paul Reist | | Comments (0)

 

June 30, 2009

Californeconomics

California as the eight-largest economy in the world is a major powerhouse for the U.S. economy as stated by an article put out by the Associated Press. Twenty cents of every revenue dollar California sends to Washington remains there. Most striking is the fact that California is responsible for keeping the retail economy running, more cars are purchased here than in any other state. The question has become will California with its fiscal instability become a major stumbling block to U.S. economic recovery? In the article entitle California Poised to Issue IOUs to Vendors, Local Governments the Sacramento Bee talks about when and what the consequences might be of doing so

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Posted, in Economy, by Helen Losch | | Comments (2)

 

June 29, 2009

Broadway Bias

New research suggests that woman playwrights may be on the receiving end of sexual discrimination -- from women. Stanford Professor Bob Sutton on his blog describes studies by undergrad Emily Glassberg Sands, mentioned in the New York Times, that purport to turn up bias in unusual places. Other aspects of the research include evidence that works by women on average are 18% more profitable than plays authored by men.

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Posted, in Society, by Paul Reist | | Comments (0)

 

BW Videos

In my internet travels searching for business research, I came across BusinessWeek's site titled "Video View's".

This site features interviews with newsmakers, discussions of current topics such as housing prices, financial crisis or the current state of healthcare costs.

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Posted, in Business News, by Nora Richardson | | Comments (0)

 

June 25, 2009

New Perspectives on Obama

Time to report on the latest arrival of NPQ -- New Perspectives Quarterly. The Spring 2009 issue on our current periodical racks is titled 'Obama's Smart Power', and highlights geopolitical challenges to the President's "smart power" strategy. The issue opens with a statement by Mr Obama, followed by interviews and commentary on this and other topics from the usual gang of suspects, i.e. world leaders, including U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph S. Nye Jr, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, author Olivier Roy (Globalized Islam), Afghan President Hamid Karzai, former President Jimmy Carter, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, ex-Shanghai mayor Xu Kuangdi, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, author Fareed Zakaria, historian Francis Fukuyama, Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson, and others. Take a look.

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Posted, in International, by Paul Reist | | Comments (0)

 

June 23, 2009

No Longer "Clear" to Bypass Security

Beginning yesterday Clear, the system whereby you could pay a yearly fee to be enrolled in a program which allowed you to bypass the long security lines at the airport in the U.S., had a message on its website stating the service was no longer available. Frequent business travelers really liked the system which was in place at about twenty airports around the country. The big question now is what will happen to all the confidential information collected on passengers? The Clear program which was owned by the Verified Identity Pass Company and founded in 2003 was unable to make a deal with its creditors and had to shut down

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Posted, in Economy, Technology, by Helen Losch | | Comments (0)

 

June 22, 2009

Ray loves his library

Ray Bradbury, famous science fiction novelist, is helping local libraries in Ventura County to keep their doors open.

Mr. Bradbury frequently speaks at libraries across the state, and on Saturday he will make his way here for a benefit for the H. P. Wright Library, which like many others in the state’s public system is in danger of shutting its doors because of budget cuts.

In January the branch was told that unless it came up with $280,000 it would close. The branch’s private fund-raising group, San Buenaventura Friends of the Library, has until March to reach its goal; so far it has raised $80,000.

Read more about it.

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Posted, in Library News, by Nora Richardson | | Comments (0)

 

June 19, 2009

Casttoos

The entrepreneurial inspiration can come from the most unusual sources. For Jess Smith, the studio art grad, the idea of his very successful business was born out of misery of fractured bones as a result of the bicycle accident. Jess painted his whole wrist cast, and when his doctor saw it, he really liked the design and said that he would gladly buy such art if someone offers. Thus, the idea of Casttoos has emerged. It’s simple; the design is printed on the adhesive film which melts into cast after 10 seconds of hairdryer blowing. And the world seems to notice and to like it. How big is Jess’s market? In his words, about 10 percent of the population is healing from a broken bone at any given point in time. You can read this short feature called “If it’s Broke, decorate it!” in July issue of Entrepreneur magazine in Jackson library, and do as I did: go to the company’s website and check out designs yourself.

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Posted, in Entrepreneurship, by Zina Shapiro | | Comments (0)

 

June 18, 2009

Chirp !

Harvard researchers recently conducted a study of Twitter. Among its conclusions: women and men both tend to follow men rather than women (reversing a trend in online social networks, where men often follow the lead of women), and the top 10% of prolific Twitter users account for over 90% of tweets. Oxford University Press has also been looking at Twitter; check out their blog. Some bloggers are worrying that Twitter will degrade the language. Is Twitter for the birds ?

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Posted, in Society, by Paul Reist | | Comments (0)

 

June 16, 2009

Three's a crowd?

The crowd I'm speaking about is "crowdsourcing". Crowdsourcing is the practice of using large, distributed and minimally directed groups to accomplish tasks.

Is this the new way to innovate business and will it last once the recession is over?
Read more about it.

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Posted, in Business News, by Nora Richardson | | Comments (0)

 


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