E-Textbooks May Not Make Economic Sense for Students … or Do They???

There was an interesting article in yesterday’s LA Time’s that gives a timely perspective on the proliferation of e-textbooks in the student market. The crux of the argument is that e-textbooks, although half the price of print textbooks, may actually not be cheaper in the long run. Students can usually return their print textbooks for [...]

How to Get Through Life 101 to 448 (If only it exsisted…)

I came across this article on lifehack.org, “8 Essential Skills They Didn’t Teach you in School” and I feel that readers and contributors to this blog will be able to add valuable skills of their own they think should be on the list or further links to the 8 topics… but that is because I assume [...]

Social Media for business

I just got back from this mornings seminars at the IncentiveWorks conference and had the opportunity to hear Phil Barrett speak about Social Media and how it has evolved and how it will progress over the next 10 years. Interesting stuff. (He used a different type of video by commoncraft)
It was also amazing to see just [...]

Social Media Sites … is it too much?

I came across an interesting article last night written by a blogger I have never read before. Her name is Kelly Livesay and she made a very interesting call to action. In her post she declares that she is sick of all the different social networking sites out there; facebook, myspace, twitter, social networks for [...]

New magazine social networking sites: Add them to the list

Most recently, Entrepreneur.com launched Entrepreneur Connect, a business-to-business marketplace for entrepreneurs.  To add to the ho-hum of social networking sites here are a list of others:
 
Wired magazine launched Wired Biz, a ‘niche’ social networking site for Entrepreneurs.  (Hmmmm, similarities to Entrepreneur Connect?) Oh, but this one encourages collaborative problem solving.
 
BusinessWeek and LinkedIn teamed up [...]

Great Advice from Marc Hedlund

Get Rich Slowly, which was recently named the most inspiring money blog by Money magazine posted an article a few days ago guest-authored by Wesabe CEO Marc Hedlund. Wesabe is a web based personal finance community that believes, “we all can help each other make better financial decisions and ultimately take control of our money [...]

Power Kiting is the New Renewable Alternative

My Conundrum;  12m Ocean Rodeo Rise Venturi Power Kite  vs.  FE 650 Husaberg Enduro…  I love them both but one just strikes such a nice chord in my environmentally conscience brain.  From the previous post on Big Oil,  I can sympathise firsthand the love/hate relationship of the oil industry;  the feeling of 650cc’s in your [...]

The E-Book Revolution

There has been a lot of speculation recently regarding the future of e-books and whether they are going to be the next big thing. What we do know at this point is that Amazon has sold 240, 000 Kindles. Given these numbers, Techcrunch’s Erick Schonfield suggested that Citi analyst Mark Mahaney update his most [...]

Uncertainty and the Powerlessness of Oil Consumption

It goes without question that with pump prices as high as they have been this past year, the mass public generally loathes the oil companies. A recent Harris Interactive study on 20 industries showed that consumer share a serious distain for the oil tycoons. Our own Renee Warren was recently quoted on BNet News with [...]

Why Should We Listen to our Community?

I am a big proponent of community based development. I remember a meeting I had a short while ago with FreshBooks, CEO, Mike McDerment, who really made it clear to me the power of community. His advice at the time was to offer your service for free from the start and nurture/build your community. Once you have [...]