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re: Social Media Trends for 2012

Graham Griffith — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:33:32 GMT

What has to happen for these activities to become meaningful trends? What social media trends do you anticipate being a big part of commerce in 2012?

Black Friday

Management — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:21:05 GMT

Holiday sales for retailers are important. The National Retail Federation (NFR), the largest retail trade

China's Youth and the Shared Value Economy

Global Economic Watch — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:54:34 GMT

Perhaps you are familiar with the concept of a shared value economy. If not, dart over to our post from

re: Frontline: 'Inside the Meltdown'

eshann24@yahoo.com — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:35:10 GMT

Wow!!! Just another good example of just how grimy wall street can get , I mean one day your in and the next day your out.

Paul Romer's Charter City Idea Closer to Becoming a Reality

Global Economic Watch — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:21:48 GMT

Two years ago, we highlighted a talk by Paul Romer in which he put forward the idea of creating new cities

Planet Money Sells Their Gold

Global Economic Watch — Mon, 23 May 2011 06:17:20 GMT

Back in October, we told you about the Planet Money folks buying a small bit of gold . It was a bit of

Online Ads and the Search for Better Ways of Measuring Impact

Global Economic Watch — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:37:30 GMT

2010 was a big year for online advertising . And we are expecting even faster revenue growth in 2011

Mark Kramer on Creating Shared Value

Global Economic Watch — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:50:47 GMT

Michael Porter and Mark Kramer continue to attract a lot of attention for their Harvard Business Review

I think this "twitter" fad is winding down. http://community.cengage.com/GECResource/blogs/gec_blog/archive/2011/03/23/growth-in-twitter-usage.aspx only 4.2 million new users over this time last year?

Quora — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:35:40 GMT

Kidding yo. seriously though, how many of these are active accounts with live people behind them? Anybody know of a breakdown that shows: real people vs. robots vs. businesses, etc..?

Planet Money Interview with Michael Lewis

Global Economic Watch — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:26:31 GMT

Most readers associate Michael Lewis with his best-selling books Liar's Poker , The Big Short , Moneyball

Melinda French Gates on the Coca-Cola Example

Global Economic Watch — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:24:04 GMT

We posted earlier on Coca-Cola's success in marketing with a sharp eye on the consumer experience

Planet Money Buys Gold

Global Economic Watch — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:31:48 GMT

After coming up a bit short of investment success with their purchase of a toxic asset ( which they named

US Census Report: Poverty Levels by State

Global Economic Watch — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:08:28 GMT

Nine days ago, we highlighted the Census Bureau's most recent report on poverty levels in the US

re: Bruce Bartlett's Modest Proposal for Getting His Generation to Leave Less Debt

dennis.reichhardt@my.sinclair.edu — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:55:00 GMT

I believe Mr. Bartlett is right on this one issue, he has a point that would make sense in the long run. This concept I think in my opinion would give a change to create new organization and a new development in the government's useage of funds. When monies are donated there has to be countable moneytary system for the countable ways to show the public donors that their creditable programs, for example the red cross. The public donors would feel more free and understanding torward these special programs besides being obligated through their hard working job taxes or their home taxes going up everytime a new tax increase is added on to their house payment because the governments get greedy or they feel government needs more capital. Don't you wish you could just vote your self a raise at your job every year....

Marketing Tips: What Makes Gen Y Consumers Tick

Global Economic Watch — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:06:56 GMT

As we noted back in May with this post , Gen Y has taken over the mantle of the largest generation. That