Diversity IS a Beautiful Thing! Originally uploaded by deestea. MLK’s dream is also good for business? How is that you ask? I heard an intriguing piece on NPR this morning about how a researcher correlated more diversity with better outcomes in business. Cedric Herring, Professor of Sociology at the read more...

I first heard about the free Blog Talk Radio service from Scott Baradell over at Media Orchard when he began hosting a series of shows on the platform with high-profile bloggers, including Steve Rubel, Shel Israel and others. Blog Talk Radio is Scott’s clients. The idea of the service is that you can plan a show and then invite people to come and listen, call in and ask questions -- live. Then, the read more...

ToddAnd, one of my favorite bloggers, has spent hours watching recordings of Gilmore Girls with his wife and compiling a list of 150 Power MARCOM bloggers.

I like how Todd uses several factors Google PageRank, Bloglines, Technorati and his own subjective rating to make the rankings. I think that we need some kind of tool that read more...

Left Bank Starbucks--American Teen Tourists Originally uploaded by agfachrome25. Once a week, I have a 12-year-old babysitter that comes to monitor my toddler as he sleeps, while my husband and I meet with a few of our neighbors a few houses down the street. I let her use my laptop for entertainment and when I came home I noticed that she was on a social networking site called read more...

Postcard from Second Life Originally uploaded by CC Chapman. It sounded like a catchy title. And companies certainly have used the media frenzy around the Second Life platform to garner outstanding mainstream coverage. But step into Second Life and the complaints come fast and thick. Complaints from the Second Life residents about islands that were built and abandoned after the big “events” that brought them to the platform in the read more...