Archive for the 'Innovation' Category
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Back in April the American Cancer Society launched its “More Birthdays” campaign. The premise being that we want to eliminate cancer as a major health problem so that more people can have more birthdays.
Now, over at Tipping Pitches, John Loomer reports that an iPhone app is being developed which is scheduled to be released in [...]
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
If you want to implement a new idea or if you’re interested in changing your organizational culture to value innovation, there are four things you should know before you begin.
You’re not that smart; they’re not that dumb (Horstman’s Law) Many people will be cool to your idea. [...]
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Courtesy of The Cutting Edge,
You might think it’s funny, but you can follow me on Twitter. I’m txglennross.
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Do you want to accelerate the speed of innovation in your nonprofit? You might first want to read, Optimizing Innovation by Braden Kelly. It summarizes a presentation by Steve Faktor of American Express.
Sometimes I wonder if the only innovation going on in the business and nonprofit sectors is the implementation of social media strategies. But [...]
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
My favorite futuring and innovation conference is happening this week in my favorite small town, Camden, Maine.
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Hello Everyone!
Welcome to my new Blog. I have decided to stop updating FIspace.org for the American Cancer Society (ACS) and move into my own space here at 501derful.org. On my new Blog I will cover all things around Non Profits using Social Media, Technology and Marketing to move their missions. So check back each day [...]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
So as you may of heard the Austin Film Society has a new tenant in the studios they run. And people are not happy. Why? Because people like to cause trouble. Becuase people who don’t do things like to sit around and complain about those who make things happen. The truth behind all the lies [...]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
My good friend Jon Dunn is volunteering for Wildlife SOS and is helping with their Web Strategy. He sent me a note for all my readers to check this out. They are crowdsourcing their homepage designer. Can you help them? Will this work? Will it not? Can they find someone for $1,200 in awards?
Jon has [...]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Hey all I don’t ask much from my readers but I have a request for today. Can you help me get into SXSW for the fourth year in a row? I’m on a TON of great panel this year and would love for to help by voting and commenting on them all. Let me know [...]
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Thanks to all of your generous donations, Lights. Camera. Help. is pleased to announce that we will be giving $1,000 to the Art from the Streets program.
This is the result of all of the proceeds from the festival, as well as several donations received after we announced the winner. We are really pleased that [...]
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