Had two great days with small groups of nonprofit staff in both Melbourne and Sydney, under the auspices of the Not-For-Profit Network. Thanks to both Glen Ramos and Steve Bowman for all their help with the logistics. The people were predictably great, and their stories fascinating. In general, Aust...

Is it really so easy for the Facebooks and Wal-Marts of the world to use a national platform like Oodle or LiveDeal to successfully launch classifieds? Jay Schauer, a friend who runs Ad2Ad.com, doesn’t think so. (Among other services, Ad2Ad automates classifieds for community and college newsp...

I have been asked this quite a few time over the last week or so which suggests people want to but don't know if they should.  Here are seven reasons why I think you should. 1. ROT (Return on Time) If as a recruiter you are doing your job well, you will be keeping touch with good quality c...

You may recall that back in September I reported on an Eastern School District meeting (back when such affairs were calmer) part of which was a presentation by Leo Broderick and Mary Boyd on bottled water and why it should be avoided. Although I poked fun at their long-winded presentation, the heart...

The WordPress Design Award is divided into 5 separate categories: 1. Best Clean & Minimalist 2. Best Retro & Vintage 3. Best Grunge 4. Best Hand-Drawing Style 5. Best Modern & Elegant That being said, we are giving away $200 COLD HARD CASH (via PayPal) to the winner of each category. ...

The story of Buford Pusser, the legendary sheriff of McNairy County Tennessee, is fascinating. Pusser's career as a wrestler came to a close so he moved his family back to his home place to run a sawmill with daddy Carl. He's shocked to discover the level of corruption going on. And after he is a vi...

That was fast! The ink is barely dry on yesterday's post and the Tribeca Film Festival has already announced the rest of their feature film lineup for this year's edition, which runs from April 22-May 3. A few quick picks: Blank City . Celine Danhier's doc examines "the DIY independent film movement...

Facebook seems even more aggressive about being international than Google was, check this out: 40 percent of Facebook users are not using English. More than 70 percent of Facebook users are outside the United States. It reaches more than 10 percent of the total national population in 26 countries. F...

Here’s the newest on the entertaining (and potentially important) copyright fight between the Associated Press and Shepard Fairey, the artist whose iconic Obama poster riffs off an AP photo. Or rips off an AP photo, depending on your perspective. Fairey, who’s become an Internet cause ce...

Quick - you’ve got a music file that someone (a collaborator, a client, a friend) needs to hear. How do you send it to them? It seems countless Web entrepreneurs have new ways for sharing media - there are online Flash-based music editing applications, social networks, elaborate MySpace and Fa...