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Category: Fortune 500

  • Why Do You Work?

    Most of us would say money. And yet money alone does not motivate better work or increase job satisfaction. Do we work for money because there is an underlying premise…

  • A Site-less Web Site

    Finally.  An agency who gets it and shows that they get it when it comes to creatively demonstrating that the web is a fundamentally different media: www.modernista.com It is ‘siteless’…

  • Social Mediaxtravaganza

    One of the questions posed to the panel last night was on the topic of social media ‘success’ stories or case studies. Just catching up on my RSS feeds and…

  • Power of the (Corporate) People

    GM now has a blog for their workers in Europe. It’s kind of like Twitter in 9 languages. This is in addition to their portal of corporate blogs and their…

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