The Dark Side Of The Connected Enterprise. Income inequality, as seen from space. Last week, I wrote about how urban trees—or the lack thereof—can reveal income inequality.
After writing that article, I was curious, could I actually see income inequality from space? It turned out to be easier than I expected. Below are satellite images from Google Earth that show two neighborhoods from a selection of cities around the world. In case it isn’t obvious, the first image is the less well-off neighborhood, the second the wealthier one. Rio de Janeiro Rocinha Zona Sul Oakland West Oakland Piedmont Houston Fourth Ward River Oaks Chicago Woodlawn Hyde Park Beijing Fengtai Chaoyang Boston metro area, Massachusetts Ball Square, Somerville West Cambridge Your examples.
Zelf doen. Het is zonde van de energie om de financiële sector te verwijten dat ondernemers moeilijk aan krediet kunnen komen.
We gaan het gewoon zelf doen. De spelers binnen de financiële sector bleken de afgelopen jaren niet in staat te innoveren en winstmaximalisatie en risicomijding als belangrijkste beweegredenen achter zich te laten. Tegelijkertijd zagen ondernemers dat meer nodig is dan slechts focus op winstmaximalisatie om de toekomst van de onderneming te kunnen waarborgen. A Smart New Way to Rate Socially Responsible Businesses - Business. Better World Books sells used books.
Nothing special there. But how it does it deserve more praise. Better World is a social enterprise that has put over $9 million in literacy and library programs around the world, minimized its carbon footprint with clever offset incentives to customers, and has been able to treat its employees damn well. While all of this may garner extra business from conscious consumers, it's a different story when it comes to financing from investors. Better World is a for-profit company. Thanks to a new rating system for socially responsible companies called GIIRS (pronounced "gears"), it just got easier for companies like Better World to grow faster and do more good in the world. When a social enterprise like Better World Books turns to an investment fund for capital and says, "hey, we're awesome, we make money and we have positive social impact," investors will often reply, "prove it. "
Google. Socialsoftware. Why Every Company Needs to Embrace Social Media. Social media is changing everything. Business Week recently published an article about the power of social media and how companies are beginning to embrace it, because they really don't have a choice. Not everyone has a blog, or wants to blog, but you would be hard pressed to find many people who aren't on some type of social network. Now it's time for corporate America to follow suit and meet their potential customers on their own turf, or risk falling behind the times. Image Credit: qtmcknight The article says, "It's as if the walls around our companies are vanishing and old org charts are lying on their sides.
" There is truth to that statement. Brand awareness is crucial, it always was. On Friday, my post about Gen Y changing the work place was picked up on Stumble Upon and Digg. Job boards are dying, fast. The reason why is because people aren't actively looking for jobs. But again, like politics, the common folks matter too. {*style:<b> The Coolness factor </b>*} 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media. You are not special.
You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. – Tyler Durden, Fight Club. Branding one’s self in an online environment built on entropy and go-baby-go is difficult at best, and impossible if you forget to take your happy pills. To that end, I’ve come up with a quick list of 100 things you might do to help with these efforts. Feel free to add your ideas to the comments section. If you like this one, please don’t hesitate to stumble, blog, digg, bookmark, and otherwise promote the hell out of this. Listening Build ego searches using Technorati and Google Blogsearch Comment frequently (and meaningfully) on blogs that write about you and your posts Don’t forget the conversations hiding in Twitter (use Summize.com) and Friendfeed. Home Base Home base is your blog/website. Passports Passports are accounts on other social networks and social media platforms.
Social networking doomed - The INQUIRER. ACADEMICS have finally found a way to kill off social networking. Since the social notworking craze took off, scientists, technologists and kill-joys have united in condemnation of this silly sideline. But they’ve had little success so far. Now an antidote seems possible, and a deluge of killer books, round tables and deathly corporate white papers threatens to analyse the life out of this social phenomenon.
Yesterday Managed Objects and Forrester Research hosted a round table in London on how web 2.0 was going to change the world, by making corporations more agile. The INQ could not be there, but we're pretty sure the talk would all have been about the new generation of meshy nibblers of information, who graze on data packets while permanently on the move. Sit through two hours of that, with a plate of food in front of you that you can't touch, and you'll never want to look at MySpace again.