Charles Best
Charles Best, founder of DonorsChoose.org, discusses the organization he created to match contributors with public schools needing supplies, equipment, or other funding.
Marc Andreesen is on fire with his new blog. Today, he has a great post on hiring good people. I want to highlight two things he talks about because in my experience they are mandatory requirements for a good employee — new hire or existing. Of course there’s more to it than just these two…
Over the past couple of weeks I have begun to dip my toe into the Second Life waters to find out what it is all about. For those not familiar with it at all, Second Life is the hot “virtual world” that has people talking. Essentially, it is an online game where you have the…
The current credit and equity crisis is bad, but it has been made worse because too many people unwisely buy high and sell low.
This year will mark the second time that Doug Haslam has ridden his bike in the Pan Mass Challenge to support the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. In this 30th annual event, the 2009 PMC expects to have 5000 cyclists and more than 2500 volunteers.
At the behest of Bryan Person, I attended a social media meetup last night in Boston in promotion of the book “The Strategy Paradox” by Michael Raynor of Deloitte Consulting. Organized by Eli Singer out of Toronto, it offered a whole new way to promote a book. It wasn’t a typical book event where the…
I have a lot of respect for Jim Horton, a longtime PR blogger who I have been reading since before I myself began to blog. Nevertheless, I disagree with his post this morning that encourages bloggers to take a pledge against accepting freebies. Certainly if a blogger wishes to do this, he should be free…