Submitted by Mvndrvrt
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Today is World Day for Decent Work, and union members in more than 100 countries are mobilizing to address the global economic and employment crisis and demand fundamental reform of the world economy.The deepest global recession since the 1930s has led to a jobs crisis with millions of people out of work. The Internatio (Read More)
TwitLinks:
Google (GOOG) cofounder Sergey Brin is sitting down with about a dozen reporters at Google’s New York city headquarters for a Q&A session. Tune in for live coverage. This should be a wide-ranging conversation, which I’ll attempt to cover live as well as I can. Please consider everything below to be a paraphrase unless it’s (Read More)
Submitted by Robdiana
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There is a growing trend out there for working a shorter work week or even leaving the corporate workforce to work for yourself. But, for most of us, leaving our current job or even shortening our work week is just not on the short-term horizon. Given that stark reality, it would be wise to set yourself up for some upward (Read More)
Submitted by Jgmize
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Silke Helfrich of the German “CommonsBlog” writes:I had the opportunity to do the introductory talk of the World Commons Forum held on 29 and 30 of September in Salzburg. I am pleased to share my ideas as well as the presentation. It includes a table to compare the present paradigm with the commons paradigm.She also warns u (Read More)
PR 2.0:
Chris Heuer is a Creative Catalyst with AdHocnium, Director of iStrategy Labs SF and the Founder of Social Media Club Source: ShutterstockThe Problem with Marketing (and markets because of it)For over 15 years I have been looking at the world of marketing, advertising and public relations and seeing things a bit differently (Read More)
MediaShift:
It's official: "Public Media 2.0" has graduated from theory into practice. "We believe that a successful broadband policy and implementation requires Public Media 2.0," said Ernest Wilson, the new chair of the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, at Friday's unveiling of the Knight Commission's new report, Info (Read More)
Submitted by Badgergravling
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this fluid world is a consultancy that assists companies in business and communications excellence.Click below for a selection of case studies and testimonials. More to follow.––More information:this fluid world operates as a catalyst for organisational change and improvement, as a trend advisor and future proofer assisting (Read More)
Submitted by Jgmize
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Sunday’s communique from the International Monetary and Financial Committee (of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund) is incredibly bland, even by their usual standards. The degree of self-congratulation and complacency is slightly less pronounced than what we saw from the G20 in Pittsburgh, whose fina (Read More)
Google Alerts - cthulhu:
Andrew Kuchling broached the topic on twitter so I think that makes it fair game.For those of you who don't know H.P. Lovecraft wrote the short fiction horror story The Call of Cthulhu in 1926. The story would only become popular much later, and only in recent decades it has been every sci-fi writer's rite of passage to em (Read More)
Submitted by Alm2010
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Bill Gross knows bonds. When the Fed Reserve’s tea leaves need reading, Wall Street turns for interpretation to Gross, managing director of the $841-billion investment firm PIMCO. So it’s not just marketing bravado that the firm’s trademarked tagline is PIMCO….The Authority on Bonds.Well, apparently the authority isn’t lovi (Read More)
FriendFeed ajkohn:
Unemployment will almost certainly in double-digits next year -- and may remain there for some time. And for every person who shows up as unemployed in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' household survey, you can bet there's another either too discouraged to look for work or working part time who'd rather have a full-time job (Read More)
Submitted by Jgmize
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In Orion magazine, Derrick Jensen sternly warns us that changes in personal consumption cannot in any way avert great ecological crisis, giving the example of water usage:“WOULD ANY SANE PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workda (Read More)
Submitted by Geek Lad
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All statistical information herein courtesy of Strange Maps In 2007, the US had the largest economy in the world for a single country, outranked by a single currency only by the European Union. As difficult as it is for us to conceptualize a trillion (1,000,000,000,000) or even a billion (1,000,000,000), the U.S. GDP was es (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
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The global recession is over, the International Monetary Fund said today, revising its economic forecasts in response to Asian growth and more than $2 trillion in stimulus packages worldwide. The IMF now says the world economy is growing and will expand by 3.1% in 2010, with China growing at... (Read More)
Submitted by Mvndrvrt
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The $787.2 billion economic stimulus bill was enacted to save jobs, create jobs, and breathe hope into a nation mired in a deep recession—but the vast majority of the money is still waiting to be spent. But here are 7 industries that are poised to put the money to good use pronto (and might give you the opportunity to do th (Read More)