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LinkedIn: The Useful -- and Profitable -- Social Network - John Sviokla
One way to create a great fortune is to ride the next wave, and my money’s on LinkedIn. [...] The company is on its way to creating the world’s largest network of participating experts.
2008, article, collaborative, connected, linkedin, professional, profitable, social, useful saved by: meryn more details ...
http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/sviokla/2008/07/linkedin_the_useful_and_profit_1.html
SOLAR TODAY - Home
It doesn’t do much good to preach about community. All we can do is try to create the local economic institutions that draw us back together. Things like farmers’ markets. Or like sha...
2008, article, californian, centralized, communitarian, connected, distributed, german, gregarious, happy, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.solartoday.org/2008/may_june08/getting_connected.htm
Nokia purchases Plazes, a location-based social networking service | last100
Imagine everything Nokia offers wrapped in a cuddly location-based, mapping, social network cloth where all of its users are connected to their interests and each other in the virtual and...
2008, article, connected, european, german, last100, local, mobile, nokia, plazes, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.last100.com/2008/06/23/nokia-purchases-plazes-a-location-based-social-networking-...
Nomads at last | Economist.com
Urban nomads have started appearing only in the past few years. Like their antecedents in the desert, they are defined not by what they carry but by what they leave behind, knowing that t...
2008, article, connected, homeless, mobile, nomadic, online, technological, ubiquitous, wireless, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10950394
No Impact Man: Designers: If it isn't life-enhancing, can it really be sustainable?
We have become so short on environmental resources that we can no longer afford to be wasting them on things that don't even improve our lives.
2008, article, connected, content, effective, efficient, frugal, functional, green, happy, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/designers-if-it.html
The AppGap » » Allowing for Social Influence in the Workplace
[Social influence means that] the organizations don’t control their employee base like they once did. Its just how the world has changed.
2008, aligned, anonymous, article, attentive, collaborative, connected, control, influential, p2p, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.theappgap.com/allowing-for-social-influence-in-the-workplace.html
Changing the World from the Edge
Tackling difficult social problems like environmental pollution, inadequate health care, and sustainable development will be much more successful if the energy and creativity of engaged s...
2008, appropriate, article, businessweek, clean, collaborative, committed, connected, creative, encouraged, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/may2008/id20080530_606257.htm
Happiness Rankings by Country « The Situationist
Professor White concludes that happiness is about being healthy, wealthy and wise. [...] He also finds that countries of low population and high social cohesion tend to be happier.
2008, affluent, article, connected, criminal, effective, generous, happy, healthy, homogenous, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/happiness-rankings-by-country
social capital: civic community and education
Interaction enables people to build communities, to commit themselves to each other, and to knit the social fabric.
2008, appropriate, associative, beneficial, clean, collective, committed, confluent, connected, cooperative, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.infed.org/biblio/social_capital.htm