How Organized Consumer Purchasing Can Change Business

How Organized Consumer Purchasing Can Change Business from carrotmob on Vimeo.
The predictable reflex behaviour called "business sense" will fall for a ploy, every time. There's no trick there, its simple behaviour-mod, 2-4-6-8 Ring the Bell and Salivate ... a carrot on a stick. That part is easy, but the REAL trick is getting the shoppers to coordinate THEIR purchase reflex to hold the carrot's stick.

And I would give up all hope of THAT, had I not seen http://vimeo.com/2913530

No Educator Left Behind

What is the (Next) Message?: Big Ideas: No Educator Left Behind: "as a result of the changes the internet has brought to the way students communicate and interact, universities, if they are to remain relevant, must move from the current model of education as skills centered to one that is more focused on connectivity."

on a related note:
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the above video can serve as a trailer/teaser for the full lecture; Mark is interviewed by GlobalTV on his take on the Ryerson Facebook Scandal.

Mark's address to TVO follows up on his famous essay, "Why Johnny Can't Read", Mark opens with the Fable of the Engineering Student, The College and The Facebook Studygroup...

TVO being strictly old-school communications has never heard of Facebook and only packaged the full video presentation for MOV file download; catch it at TVO: Big Ideas

Gen-We

Gen-We.org Video: Generation We "Millennials" were born between 1978 and 2000 and are now emerging as a social, political and philosophical force. The Future Majority wants to change the political process, they want to restore the environment, they want a healthy economy, and they're going to get it

from an idea found in the Amazon, click through to see the video; old-school curmudgeons like me can also find a nice PDF book to download.