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The Top 10 Websites You Never Heard Of (02 February 07:15) |
| Fastcompany.com has culled the most useful and entertaining sites from the far reaches of the Web so that when these sites go mainstream, you'll be one step ahead of the crowd.
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Is Your Marketing Strategy a Recipe for Failure? (29 January 07:14) |
| The Fast Interview: Marketing maven Seth Godin on why it's hard to sell meatballs and why those Bud TV Super Bowl ads fail. Plus two words of advice: Parrot Chow!
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Order Versus Chaos (20 January 05:13) |
| Duncan Watts's research tells advertising execs precisely what they don't want to hear: All their clever (and lucrative!) targeted viral campaigning may ultimately be less effective than goo... |
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Q&A: Mr. Fix-It (20 January 05:13) |
| Chrysler, Morrison Knudsen, Bethlehem Steel--in crisis, all called Steve Miller. In The Turnaround Kid, out February 5, the Delphi chairman writes about working for Lee Iacocca and saving so... |
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Urban Outfitters (20 January 05:13) |
| The nonprofit Sweat Equity Enterprises equips firms from Radio Shack to Skechers with product designs and marketing ideas from inner-city youth.
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Office in a Cloud (20 January 05:13) |
| Why you'll learn to love the next wave of Web-based work apps.
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Scuttling Scut Work (20 January 05:13) |
| Pfizer devises a new kind of outsourcing--just for the time-wasting parts of your job.
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Top Jobs 2008: A Guide to Layoff Survival (18 January 07:13) |
| FastCompany.com offers you a guide to layoff survival and the job search. From the practical to the philosophical, get expert tips on how to survive the fall, and get back in the game.
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Ten Jobs You Didn’t Know You Wanted (18 January 07:13) |
| Creative, challenging, and highly rewarding, these careers, while not always top of mind, aren't merely desirable -- one of them could be your dream job.
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Top Jobs of 2008 (18 January 07:13) |
| What are the top jobs for 2008? FastCompany.com crunched the numbers, spoke to the experts, and came up with the job outlook for 2008 and beyond.
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Tops Jobs 2008: Courting Your Career (18 January 07:13) |
| Careers expert and author of Courting Your Career, Shawn Graham, tells FastCompany.com how dating and job hunting have more in common than one might think.
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No Child Left Offline (12 January 05:13) |
| The Fast Interview: MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte on Intel's "dishonesty" and the long, tough road to the $100 laptop.
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A Mad Man Gets His Head Together (08 January 05:13) |
| Maurice Lévy, CEO of Publicis Groupe, has bet more than $1 Billion that he can define the future of digital advertising. Getting there has been enough to make anyone a little schizophrenic.... |
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The Wonderful World of Widgets (05 January 09:13) |
| A sampling of the top widget companies, their offerings, and the businesses benefiting from their services.
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Widgets: From Hype to Hits (05 January 09:13) |
| Last year, Newsweek predicted that 2007 would be "the year of the widget." This July, developers gathered in New York for Widgetcon, a conference devoted exclusively to widgets. Whether or n... |
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Kevin Roberts's Chaos Theory (25 December 07:13) |
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Hitting the Wall at Work? (25 December 07:13) |
| The Fast Interview: Timothy Butler on how to break the impasse and re-charge your career.
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Can Green Homes be Mass Produced? (25 December 07:13) |
| The Fast Interview: Architect Michelle Kaufmann on finding an alternative to endless subdivisions of McMansions.
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The Digital Divide (25 December 07:13) |
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Can Russell Simmons Unite the Hip-Hop Community on The Web? (18 December 11:14) |
| Back in 2000 hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons bankrolled the short-lived hip-hop news, entertainment, and community Website 360hiphop.com. Now he and a group of investors are trying again. |
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Q&A: Brian Walker (04 December 05:13) |
| "There is a value creation opportunity in being socially responsible." |
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Q&A: John Elkington (04 December 05:13) |
| "We're 40 or 40 years into a 70-year process." |
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Q&A: Bill Drayton (04 December 05:13) |
| "We've got this grass chain around people's legs." |
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The SoCap Way (04 December 05:13) |
| A window into the Awards' methodology. |
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Fast Talk: Metal Mentor (04 December 05:13) |
| Since 1997, Endeavor Global has been nurturing promising entrepreneurs to build companies that help support emerging markets across Latin America and Africa. |
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Fast Talk: Water Work (04 December 05:13) |
| For the last 70 years, Population Services International has been using private sector distribution and marketing channels to deliver low-cost health products--such as Waterguard, a chlorine... |
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Fast Talk: New Vision (04 December 05:13) |
| Scojo Foundation addresses the need for reading glasses in the developing world by helping local entrepreneurs to set up businesses selling low-cost glasses. The program raises incomes for t... |
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Fast Talk: Rising Up (04 December 05:13) |
| Community Reinvestment Fund, USA aids community-development lenders nationwide by purchasing their loans and offering training and development. |
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The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits (04 December 05:13) |
| In this excerpt from the book Forces for Good, authors Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant share what makes a nonprofit effective. |
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Profits with Purpose (04 December 05:13) |
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People Acumen (01 December 09:15) |
| In an excerpt from his new book Leaders at All Levels, Ram Charan discusses which social qualities make someone a good leader. |
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The Idiot Box (01 December 09:15) |
| If you want to learn something about the world of business, turn off your TV. |
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Can PR Save China? (29 November 05:13) |
| Recently, "Made in China" has been associated with dying pets, an amputated finger, poisoned children, and even toys that emit a date-rape chemical when swallowed. Can the country salvage it... |
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Business Travel: What's Changing? (27 November 07:16) |
| Key Trends are Altering the Way Road Warriors Work in the Airport, on the Plane, and in the Hotel. |
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Trolling Apple’s Patents (27 November 07:16) |
| Apple is a notoriously secretive company. But it can't hide public filings such as patent applications. Adam L. Penenberg takes a look below at recent examples that may shed light on Steve J... |
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Apple: Box By Box (27 November 07:16) |
| Apple's profits come from its high-margin hardware, but while those machines all look great, they are not without their shortcomings. Here, Michael Fitzgerald, author of the "Prototype" colu... |
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All Eyes On Apple (27 November 07:16) |
| Will the gray light of January cool the world's hottest company? |
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What Makes a Product Cool (22 November 05:19) |
| The Fast Interview: Steve Quartz on neuromarketing – and why iPods are like heroin. |
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Cyber Monday: The Phantom Boom (21 November 05:14) |
| How a clever nickname turned a ho-hum shopping day into the holy grail of holiday sales -- and why it's doomed. |
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Wish List (21 November 05:14) |
| ’Tis the season to enumerate our objects of desire. Please take careful notes. |
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What I Want (21 November 05:14) |
| We asked a dozen business leaders what they're lusting after this year. The results might surprise you. |
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Hacking the iPhone (17 November 05:14) |
| Just how vulnerable is your iPhone if someone wants to intercept your email or record your conversations? Pretty vulnerable. |
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Why You Should Include a Joker in Every Brainstorming Session (10 November 09:14) |
| The Fast Interview: John Morreall on the link between humor and innovation, why authoritarian bosses fear humor, and the funniest CEO in America. |
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Hate Your Cell Phone No More (06 November 11:14) |
| What if your wireless plan had no early termination charges, no bizarre overage fees, and no self-aggrandizing claims about coverage? Thanks to new legislation, this could be your carrier --... |
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To Grow Your Firm, Put the Brakes on Bad Habits (06 November 11:14) |
| Learn how using Behavior Change Groups can make a lasting impact on recognizing, and quelling, many of the bad habits that damage employee morale and workplace productivity. |
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Halloween 2.0: How Web Companies Trick and Treat (30 October 07:13) |
| No longer just for kids, this multi-billion dollar holiday lends itself to creativity on the Web. Check out what these innovative tech companies have in store for October 31, both online and... |
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What Paris Hilton Can Teach You About Branding (27 October 03:12) |
| The Fast Interview: Alex Bogusky, an ad guy who definitely doesn't shy away from controversy. |
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Will Facebook Ever Make Money? (27 October 03:12) |
| An interview with Chamath Palihapitaya, Facebook's VP of product marketing and operations. |
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Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg Are Now Friends! (27 October 03:12) |
| What Microsoft's $240 million investment in Facebook means for the Web. |
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Now, That's Entertainment Technology (20 October 05:12) |
| When media and tech collide, the consumer wins. Prepare for a media world of unimaginable freedom and endless choices. |
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