February 28, 2006

So How Does It Feel to Be A Global Micro-brand?

- Crossroads Dispatches

I received an email from someone writing a feature on marketing innovations and global microbrands. I answered the writer's email questions while I watch tonight's The Apprentice. (TV is rare for me, but concentration isn't a problem as I... ›››

So How Does It Feel to Be A Global Micro-brand?

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January 17, 2006

Burma and Silver Linings

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On Friday, I went to Burma (or Mynamar as it's now known) on a visa run. (My visa was good for 30 days and it was about to expire.) Part of me felt guilty giving my crisp $5 bill... ›››

Category: Global Lens | Social Enterprise | Tsunami

January 07, 2006

Thaikea: From Leftover Coffins To DIY Furniture Making

- Crossroads Dispatches

Although this is my third visit to Thailand, it is my first time in Khao Lak. So too for Tsunami Volunteer Center's media relations volunteer Jessica Moulday from Australia. Although just home from her first trip in Thailand a... ›››

Category: Innovators and Creators | Participatory Marketing | Social Enterprise | Tsunami

January 01, 2006

Sunflowers

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Are you Millie or Tia? I ask the elegant blond woman in pink tank top, pink skirt, and pink cap. I'm leafing through a 2006 desk calendar that is a fundraiser for the Millie and Tia Sunflower Nursery. Those...... ›››

Category: Innovators and Creators | Social Enterprise | Tsunami

December 29, 2005

Teach Him To Fish

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I really liked this story in the December 26, 2005 Bangkok Post, it jibes with Graeme Bristol's comment: Economic recovery goes a long, long way towards psychological recovery. In the story, a fisherman recounts how he lost his sister... ›››

Category: Innovators and Creators | Social Enterprise | Start-Ups

December 26, 2005

Worldwide Remembrance Week, December 26-January 1.

- Crossroads Dispatches

It's Worldwide Remembrance Week, December 26-January 1. Use your blogs, your home pages, your wikis, your newsletters. Link to your favourite charities and NGOs, write a paragraph about them and the work they are doing, and ask your readers... ›››

Category: Social Enterprise | Social Media | Tsunami

December 08, 2005

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Tsunami Anniversary Trek: T-Minus 7 Days

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The holiest of all holidays are thoseKept by ourselves in silence and apart;The secret anniversaries of the heart...- Henry Wadworth Longfellow, Holidays So begins one of the chapters of Petra Nemcova's memoir, Love Always Petra: A Story of Courage... ›››

Category: Participatory Marketing | Social Enterprise | Storytelling | Tsunami

December 07, 2005

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Fiercely Interdependent (plus a wee bit about social media & business models)

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I'm fiercely independent. Always have been. But in the last few years I've yielded more to interdependence. Yet my first response about five hours into the tsunami aftermath was to feel utterly on my own. I'm screwed I'd concluded:... ›››

December 06, 2005

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Making a Statement with Your Business Model

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I finally understand the reasoning why I'd selected (I acted on instinct originally) the most ridiculous business model for supporting the tsunami anniversary live-blogging trek. But that post (which includes the promised fundraising update) is becoming richer, and more... ›››

Category: Innovators and Creators | Social Enterprise | Start-Ups