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 30, 2006

Selling the Surfing Lifestyle

- Crossroads Dispatches

"I went to get my kite," recounts Chris, the charming surfer who was born in Zanzibar and is half-Sri Lankan. From the horizon, it seemed like a dream wave. Luckily others around him had more sense and had heard... ›››

Category: Global Lens | Marketing | The Greater Hunger | Tsunami | Word-of-Mouth Marketing

December 27, 2005

Bazuki: A Photographer Revisits Tsunami A Year Later

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I briefly met Bazuki the other day at the Christmas Day ceremonies with the twenty-one Buddhist forest monks. He and Ed both work for Reuters, and they are among the very few journalists and photographers I've been impressed with.... ›››

Category: Innovators and Creators | Storytelling | The Greater Hunger | 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:... ›››

November 26, 2005

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Carnival of Healing #18 - Grace & Gratitude

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The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything. - Albert Schweitzer (via the clear still... ›››

Category: Awareness | Belief Systems | Mind Training | Resiliency | The Greater Hunger

November 24, 2005

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The First Zen Thanksgiving

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Day 37. Via Collected Miscellany The First Thanksgiving: In a December 1621 letter, Edward Winslow describes some of the first Thanksgiving events: At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us,... ›››

Category: Awareness | Belief Systems | The Greater Hunger