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Many Hands Lighten Work

Daniel Scocco of the delightfully fresh Innovation Zen has a wonderful review of the top ten crowdsourcing companies. He’s uncovered companies from industries as diverse as footwear and pharmaceuticals who are leveraging the widsom or labor of the crowd to … Continue reading

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Google Gets Personal

I was rooting around in my gmail account today so I could forward Jen some exciting news about our friend Akiva being named a finalist in the 2006 MERCURY Latino Lens Short Film Challenge (congratulations, again!) and lo and behold … Continue reading

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Taxonomically Speaking

Darren’s last group writing project is now new and improved! Recognizing that 301 submissions are a lot to wade through, he cleverly outsourced having the posts organized into a taxonomic system. In this case, that’s a fancy way of saying … Continue reading

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Is Kinko’s FedEx’s new ZapMail?

Back in 1984, just after I’d relocated to the Burlington VT Kinko’s, Federal Express announced a new service called ZapMail, which guaranteed document delivery in 2 hours via fax. The concept was that businesses would use FedEx fax service instead … Continue reading

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10 Ways to Have a Horrible Seminar

Darren over at Problogger is running a new group writing project; since I obviously enjoy making lists and it’s seminar/workshop/conference season, I thought I’d pull together a list of the worst behaviors I’ve seen through the years. Have it at … Continue reading

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Odd Duck

One of the oldest blog memes is the “25 things about me”. I’ve always generally avoided it, not out of some odd fear of stalking or social engineering, but more from the “not enough time to write what I’d like … Continue reading

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Irrigation or Irrational?

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ~ Charles Darwin Windsor is my loyal and trustworthy guard dog. He came into my life via the Georgetown … Continue reading

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Human Capital

About sixteen years ago (give or take a few days) I hired Tammy to work with us at the Kinko’s in Harvard Square (back when it was on Dunster Street, next to Herrell’s Ice Cream). She’s still plugging away making … Continue reading

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