iPhone baby steps toward new magazines.

19 November 2009
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A fashion magazine based in the United Kingdom, Distill, is skipping a dead tree version and distributing its latest edition as an iPhone app. Distill consolidates the best work of emerging photographers, art directors and stylists from about 50 little-known magazines around the world. The anthology magazine’s iPhone edition includes buttons for the inspirations, credits […]

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TEDIndia: ‘What story will you tell today?’

17 November 2009

Gaurav Mishra summarizes the four-day TEDIndia conference on the Infosys campus in Mysore, 4-7 November, as a celebration of storytelling. Piglet, the optimistic, theological character in A. A. Milne’s stories about Winnie the Pooh, wakes up in the morning and says, “I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” After TEDIndia, Mishra says his new morning […]

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The field of issues management could use a lesson from the Netherlands: the polder model.

16 November 2009
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In China, I say Oubama, you say Aobama.

15 November 2009
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As US President Barack Obama visits China for the first time, Jeremy Goldkorn’s Web site Danwei examines the transliteration of Obama’s surname into Mandarin.

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Accenture, Adchemy, Procter & Gamble: Consumers study products. Products study them.

12 November 2009
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David Gillespie on why self-expression is big.

7 November 2009
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David Gillespie is an Australian who works for the McCann Erickson global network of advertising agencies and writes about how companies and brands use media creatively or stupidly to tell stories. Seven points from his latest, beautifully crafted presentation, “Digital Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Internet)” available on Slideshare: 1. […]

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Leadership lessons in self-confidence.

4 November 2009

It’s almost counter-intuitive to think leaders need lessons in self-confidence, but management coach Marshall Goldsmith of Rancho Santa Fe, California, lists five short lessons in his Harvard Business blog.  Key among them: No. 2, Learn to live with failure.  In response, Ganesh Ramakrishnan of Mumbai reminds us how different cultures view the projection of confidence […]

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Are online relationships between China and the US boiling over? Rednecks against Red Guards?

31 October 2009
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Blame it on the Irish.

29 October 2009
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Peter Mayle traces the impact of American Halloween on the French in a 24 October piece in The New York Times. One of Mayle’s friends chides Americans for wasting the delicious flesh of pumpkins on crude decorations, and thoughtfully provides a recipe for a pumpkin risotto. Elsewhere, Stacy Conradt describes 10 Halloween traditions in Mental […]

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Shining a light on non-Catholics in Italy.

27 October 2009
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