“We organize an annual swim across Lake Champlain and are looking for paddlers to escort swimmers,” said the post by Christophe Lissarrague on the Lake Champlain Kayak Club Meetup. The 4th Annual Lake Champlain Open Water Swim took place on…
Speaking at a Facebook headquarters Q&A session recently, developer Mark Zuckerberg says a ‘dislike’ button is nearing the testing stage. While many people are going to have their wishes fulfilled with the arrival of a counterpart to the Facebook Like…
Buckminster Fuller defined a concept known as synergy: the interaction or cooperation of two or more people, organizations, or other elements to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their individual parts. DesignWise synergy relates to personal interaction and…
“Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.” – David Baboulene Everyone knows the stories of their favorite brands like Ben & Jerry’s, Kashi, Tom’s of Maine, or Burt’s Bees. We have fallen in love…
We are all just rolling stones… More than a decade ago Barbara Marx Hubbard wrote, “We now have a new nervous system on the planet, which is the social media and 5.7 billion cell phones. Facebook is the third largest nation…
Steve Jobs, who never graduated from college, died at 56 years of age on Wednesday, October 5, 2011. Here he reflects on that part of his life, his career and his own mortality in a well-known commencement address at Stanford…
I subscribe to the Harvard Business Review’s (HBR) email “Management Tip of the Day” because it generally delivers small pearls of knowledge like the following: Most brand experts will tell you that your brand needs to stand for something, whether…
I have been putting off my LinkedIn research, knowing full well that the LinkedIn team has not been holding back at all in their full-tilt campaign to challenge Facebook. In the past few months they have expanded LinkedIn’s Facebook emulation…
The very first Web page ever, was posted on the world’s first Web server at around Christmas, 1990 by the Web’s creator, Tim Berners-Lee. He also created the world’s first Web browser (designed to run on the NeXTStep operating system). By 1993…
The Christmas Story as told through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, Gmail, Foursquare and Amazon… Stephen KastnerStephen Kastner is the founder of DesignWise Studios and Green Mountain Writers. His work spans storytelling, digital publishing, documentary filmmaking, photography, AI…