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Fantasy Flight Games: Tribune
A mix of set collecting and influence control. This game, set in Rome, looks to be pretty good. Even for someone like me who has been fairly down on Eurogames. But it's being made by F...
board, eurogame, fantasyflightgames, game, influence, rome, tribune, viamento.info saved by: seanabrady more details ...
http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/tribune
Moving Beyond Gore’s Message: (Science and the Media)
Gore has done a very good job of intensifying the beliefs of audiences who were already concerned about climate change, but a deep perceptual divide between partisans remains.
2008, adaptation, communcation, essay, framing, globalwarming, gore, influence, nisbet, perception, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.csicop.org/scienceandmedia/beyond-gores-message
How to Bring Your Life into Line with Your Values - Stepcase Lifehack
Just as with any other project, if you want results you have to be prepared to act — and you can’t act on big, grandiose, world-changing goals. You can only act on concrete next actions.
2008, active, consumerism, goals, helplesness, howto, influence, lifestyle, meaningful, productive, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/how-to-bring-your-life-into-line-with-your-values...
The TH Interview: Josh Dorfman, Author of The Lazy Environmentalist : TreeHugger
This is a story about innovation; whether you care about the environment or not, you’re going to think this is cool, because this is the coolest stuff happening across the economy today...
2007, behavior, conversation, dorfman, engaged, entrepreneurship, framing, green, influence, innovation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/the_th_intervie.php
Lured Toward the Right Choice - TIME
As policymakers go about their jobs--whether regulating the mortgage industry or organizing food in school cafeterias--they should design programs that give people choices but also invisi...
2008, article, behavior, defaults, influence, psychology, thaler saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1727729,00.html
Social Influence Marketing: Understanding those Peer Influences - Going Social Now
In this article, I discuss the motivations to share, how the location of a person in a network plays a role, and whether you can market to those influencers.
2008, advice, article, authenticity, conversation, credibility, feedback, influence, marketing, motivation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://shivsingh.com/goingsocial/2008/05/social-influence-marketing-und.html
Who do people trust? (It ain’t bloggers)
confiance, influencage, influence, trust saved by: skyle more details ...
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/04/29/who-do-people-trust-it-aint-bloggers
If You Like This Blog, You Make Like These
1206, blog, blog_influence, influence, links, source_info saved by: skyle more details ...
http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2006/12/if_you_like_thi.html
6 types d'influenceurs - Le Blog profession-web.ch
blogosphere, buzz, influence, influenceurs saved by: skyle more details ...
http://blog.profession-web.ch/index.php/473-6-types-d-influenceurs
Comment créer et animer un programme d’ambassadeurs de marque? | Marketing 2.0
ambassadeurs, influence, marketing saved by: skyle more details ...
http://www.marketing20.fr/2008/03/comment-creer-et-animer-un-programme-dambassadeurs-de-marq...
Obesity spreads to friends, study concludes - International Herald Tribune
Obesity can spread from person to person, much like a virus, according to researchers. When one person gains weight, close friends tend to gain weight too.
2008, article, behavior, christakis, friendship, health, influence, obesity, psychology, socialnetworks, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/25/healthscience/fat.php
Common Cause: Combating the Epidemics of Obesity and Evil « The Situationist
The most powerful causal forces behind everything from prisoner abuse to ‘supersizing’ are located less in conscious individual choices and more in the situational and systemic factor...
2007, article, evil, influence, obesity, psychology, zimbardo saved by: meryn more details ...
http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/common-cause-combating-the-epidemics-of-obes...
Social Networks « The Situationist
Happiness spreads in networks. If your friend’s friend becomes happy, it ripples through the network and can make you happy.
2008, anthropology, article, behavior, christakis, culture, epidemics, happiness, influence, interdigitation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/social-networks
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
howto, influence, reference, strategy saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html
How to Change the World: Power 3.0: Kinder, Gentler, and Better
Power is the ability to influence people using skills in responsible ways to fulfill their needs and interests.
2008, article, business, influence, kawasaki, leadership, power saved by: meryn more details ...
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/02/power-3-kinder.html
Climate Fight: the Heart Connection « La Marguerite
The global warming message has made it into people’s heads, but has failed to grab them by the heart. Appeals to morality and civic environmental duty can only go so far. People have to...
2008, article, commented, influence, manteau-rao saved by: meryn more details ...
http://lamarguerite.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/climate-fight-the-heart-connection
The Splintered Mind: Situationism and the Self-Centeredness of Virtue Ethics
From our own (actor's) perspective, situational influence can be responsible for our own behavior, but from another (observer's) perspective, our own behavior constitutes part of the situ...
2008, article, behavior, ethics, influence, psychology, situationis saved by: meryn more details ...
http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2008/03/situationism-and-self-centeredness-of.html
Many approaches to being green
People often face barriers that prevent them from doing the right thing. If there's no public transportation, for instance, even the most avid environmentalist may be forced to use a car.
2001, article, behavior, influence, lifestyle, mckenzie-mohr, psychology, sustainability saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr01/greenapproach.html
Green groups forge ahead in ever-changing landscape of government priorities -- December 14, 2007
Many in government now realize they can get far more mileage out of investing in community-based delivery by nonprofits and that “real change has to happen at the community level.”
2007, advertising, article, behavior, entrepreneurship, influence saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.axiomnews.ca/NewsArchives/2007/December/December14.html
Beyond brochures in changing behavior
Case studies show little or no relationship between knowledge or economic self-interest and sustained behavior change.
2006, advertising, article, behavior, commitment, influence, mckenzie-mohr, psychology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.ourwater.org/econnection/connection20/behavior.html
climate change and transport: changing behaviour
[Mckenzie-Mohr's] well-documented six step process includes Selecting Behaviours, Identifying Barriers and Benefits, Developing Strategies, Running a Pilot, Implementation, followed by Ev...
article, behavior, influence, mckenzie-mohr, oskamp, strategy saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.transport.govt.nz/climate-change-and-transport-changing-behaviour-1
Raymond De Young Ph.D. | Natural Resources and Environment | University of Michigan
Rather than addressing obesity as an individual health problem, a transdisciplinary approach to public healthcare would focus on how the built environment (e.g., neighborhoods, transporta...
article, behavior, deyoung, health, influence, obesity, psychology, sustainability saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.snre.umich.edu/profile/rdeyoung
Theory of Change: ActKnowledge and the Aspen Roundtable
Theory of Change offers a clear roadmap to achieve your results identifying the preconditions, pathways and interventions necessary for an initiative’s success.
change, evaluation, influence, leadership saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.theoryofchange.org
Fostering Sustainable Behavior
Six resources: Online guide which illustrates how to use community-based social marketing to design and evaluate programs searchable databases of articles, downloadable reports, graphics...
behavior, influence, mckenzie-mohr, reference, sustainability saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.cbsm.com
The Failure of the Green Media to Communicate Simply « La Marguerite
Lists are mostly good for the list maker, I realize. They give a sense of mastery, and order. The illusion that things are taken care of.
2007, article, behavior, commented, communication, effectiveness, influence, lifestyle, manteau-rao, sustainability, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://lamarguerite.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/the-failure-of-the-green-media-to-communicate-s...
Framing Science : What Does Gore Mean by Targeting Influentials?
The current communication challenge is to go beyond the liberal democratic base who were mobilized by Inconvenient Truth, and to reach a diversity of publics who currently tune out the ur...
2008, article, influence, popularization, sustainability saved by: meryn more details ...
http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/2008/04/what_does_gore_mean_by_targeti.php
No Impact Man: The "needle exchange" approach to planetary damage
Many drug treatment agencies, particularly in Europe, have found that once they develop a relationship with users through the needle exchange program, they are then able to help the users...
2008, article, behavior, consumption, influence, trust saved by: meryn more details ...
http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2008/03/a-drug-treament.html
Study: There is No Tipping Point, Blog Readers Are Skeptical - ReadWriteWeb
The new data from Pollara does say that people use online social networks to make buying decisions, but they trust the advice of their friends and family on those networks far more than t...
2008, article, influence, socialnetworks, trust saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/study_there_is_no_tipping_poin.php
” Social Contagion: Spiral Up or Spiral Down? " on Positive Psychology News Daily
With some attention, we can raise the probability that we experience upward rather than downward spirals. In the workplace, this is important because our moods contribute to our task perf...
2008, article, business, happiness, influence, mood, psychology, self-efficacy saved by: meryn more details ...
http://pos-psych.com/news/kathryn-britton/20080407704
innovation playground Idris Mootee: Social Ventures And Emergent Systems
Instead of developing [entrepreneurs] individually as leaders and business people, we would do better to connect them to like-minded others and create the conditions for emergence.
2008, article, conversation, emergence, entrepreneurship, influence, socialnetworks saved by: meryn more details ...
http://mootee.typepad.com/innovation_playground/2008/04/social-ventures.html
Mom, won’t you vote for Barack? « Social Capital Blog
Children have persuaded us to give up smoking, and recycle. Why shouldn’t their hope inspire us now to vote?
2008, article, behavior, children, influence, obama, politics saved by: meryn more details ...
http://socialcapital.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/mom-wont-you-vote-for-barack
Using community to fight drugs « Social Capital Blog
There are non-linear dynamics in the drug trade so if you convince a core number of key individuals not to do drugs and a core number of community members to oppose it, it spreads through...
2008, article, behavior, crime, influence, norms, socialnetworks, sociology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://socialcapital.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/using-community-to-fight-drugs
Edge: SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE LIKE THE EYE: A Talk with Nicholas A. Christakis
All kinds of things, many of them quite unexpected, can flow through social networks, and this process obeys certain rules we are seeking to discover.
2008, altruism, article, behavior, christakis, complexity, contagion, culture, demonstration, experimentation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/christakis08/christakis08_index.html
Seven Steps to Change the World
Sitting back and allowing life to unfold within the confines of normal society isn’t your style - you want to change society as a whole for the better. That type of change isn’t easy,...
2008, companionship, engagement, howto, influence, leadership, purpose, strategy saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2008/04/15/seven-steps-to-change-the-world
Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting
Marketers spend a billion dollars a year targeting influentials. Duncan Watts says they're wasting their money.
2008, advertising, article, culture, influence, marketing saved by: gahlord and 2 people more details ...
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/122/is-the-tipping-point-toast.html
ChangingMinds.org
Welcome to ChangingMinds.org, the largest site in the world on all aspects of how we change what others think, believe, feel and do.
education, influence, lifehacks, marketing, meme, memes, memetics, mind, negotiation, nlp, More... saved by: deusdiabolus and 2 people more details ...
http://changingminds.org