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Dream out loud. At high volume.

The only limits are the limits of our imagination. Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud. At high volume. That’s what we do for a living. -Bono before “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” from this amazing bootleg show in Dublin. Couldn’t find anything embeddable but this is fairly close (from [...]

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Umair Haque on Authentic Value

If I could have one wish today it would be that everyone would watch this (less than 4 minute) video and ask themselves an all-important question: “Am I creating authentic value?” In other words, is what I’m doing with my life (where I’m working, what I’m investing in, etc.) not just making me better [...]

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FedEx’s Brown Bailout: How Big Companies *Shouldn’t* Use Social Media

Social media gives companies a wonderful opportunity to drive awareness to issues, establish authentic communication channels with its customers and spread messages virally through the Web. However, it also gives companies an even bigger chance to look like fools when they use these tools incorrectly. Today, I see this video going around Facebook: What?!!! [...]

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Why Amazon Vine is a Threat Worth Talking About

Have you heard about Amazon Vine? I hadn’t until tonight. And what I learned about it is, I think, really important to talk about for reasons I’ll get to in a second. First off, according to Amazon, here’s what Amazon Vine is: Amazon Vine™ is a program that enables a select group of [...]

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eduFire SuperPass: Unlimited Education for Less Than a $1/Day

For the last six months we’ve been working on something at eduFire that I’m very excited to be able to announce for the first time. It’s called eduFire SuperPass and it’s the best answer I can give (while being far from a complete one!) to the question: How can we change education? Education is mired [...]

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