Organizational Change

Remember a few years back when naysayers were warning the internet would make us alienated and isolated, and maybe it would destroy our family and social life? The highly respected Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released a report titled "The Strength of Internet Ties" finding that those worries were unfounded. I think this report is so significant I’m ...

A big thank you to Marshall Kirkpatrick for pointing me toward CPsquare.org CPsquare is the community of practice on communities of practice. From their site. CPsquare is like a town square, a place where people gather to connect and learn together. Where many of us are joining in this enterprise from a variety of organizations in the private and public ...

Hope y’all had a splendid pack of holidays. Over the holidays I had a chance to read a book or two that sparked some thinking. One was titled Beyond Branding: how the new values of transparency and integrity are changing the world of brands. It’s a compilation of articles by what I’d have to call recovering marketers. Most of the ...

How cool is this? The Society is going to team up with Yahoo.com to create a Blog called "Blog for Hope". In this Blog Yahoo and the Society are going to  recruit several celebrity bloggers who have a direct connection to cancer (as a patient, a survivor, a direct relative of a cancer patient/survivor, etc.). Over the course of a ...