World Bum

What was helpful in the past few days:

1. Will investors steal my ideas?
2. The Prez joins Google+…
3. China plans to become an innovation powerhouse by 2020
4. Social buzz for boring boring brands
5. Redefining PR in the age of social media
6. Will investors steal my ideas?
7. Women leaders and self-confidence
8. West Coast better… at failure
9. (Finally!) Why Britney Spears is good for Google+
10. Innovative business ideas: follow these five Twitters

A place for my students to view/download the slides from our social media lecture. Great class, team. Looking forward to coming back for your big term project. Iavor Ivanov.

There’s not much to add here. I can’t say that Simon Sinek is pointing out the obvious, but watch it and with this new awareness examine how you make your choices — what brand and cause messages resonate with you, who are the people you find inspiring, what purchases you’re considering… and why. This pretty much instantly evolved the way I think about my work and the way interact with people.

September 8-11, I will be attending the WPP Stream Digital Conference. The organizers have asked me to lead a session under their #SocialAction segment, so I will pose this challenge to the group: How do you build a movement of engaged individuals around reducing the high school drop out rate by half in the US? More here. </end self promotion>