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In the American Cancer Society Powerful Choices podcast series, we’ll give you the information you need to make good choices to improve your health and reduce your cancer risk, including recent news, tips, tools, and more. In this podcast, you’ll get a hold of some ideas on how to get exercise even though it’s a busy and stressful time of ...

I’m a believer that the future belongs to video. I assert that the dominant communications medium from here on is the internet; the primary character of that medium will be video; and online communication will, therefore, require video skills. The data below suggests why I think this is the case. Cisco Systems–a key supplier of hardware for the internet’s infrastructure–has ...

The headlines have made it official: we’re in a recession. In truth, this was no revelation. The economists’ facts and figures only confirmed what most of us have been feeling for some time now – painfully pinched. Like many of you, I’m making instead of buying my morning coffee, pushing my running shoes to go those few extra miles, and ...

In yesterday’s post I focused on the growing perception by some people–especially young ones–that traditional cause-oriented organizations aren’t very agile, and it’s difficult to have much influence in them. So they’re going around established institutions and generating advocacy movements almost spontaneously using tools familiar to them like blogs and social networks: what Clay Shirkey calls “organizing without organizations.” Most activist ...