Consider staging a Comedy Central-style celebrity roast of your top-selling product. Once a year or so, everyone at our company gets together for a week to hang out, work together, and socialize. Because 37signals consists of 28 people located in nearly 20 cities around the world, these get-togethers are rare—and important
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Feed SubscriptionScrew*d In The Bayou: Behind Craftsman’s Reality-Based Interactive Campaign
Craftsman is sending an un-handy man into the wild. His survival story depends on tools both physical and digital. It’s a poor workman who appears in a new reality-based campaign for Craftsman.
Read More »The Smartest Cities Will Use People as their Sensors [Video]
Several projects coordinated by MIT's Senseable City lab have revealed the powerful urban insights that can occur when people are linked via networks of sensors. Video and animations about a selection of such projects can be seen below.
Read More »How it All Began
Leslie Brokaw, a founding editor of Inc. Online, recalls Inc.com's early go-go years. About a dozen of us were in the Inc
Read More »4 Tips for Adding Live Chat
Adding a live chat service to your e-commerce site can simplify communication with your customers. Here's how to integrate this alternative to e-mail and customer service hotlines into your site.
Read More »The Uptight Citizens’ Brigade
Can TV's Ashton Kutcher, Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd, tech giant Intel, and random people on the street find the gooey center of viral hilarity? At the very least, we'll laugh and learn while their IdeaJam project publicly fails
Read More »Live updates from World Match Play
LIVE UPDATES: Scoring from the World Match Play Championship in Casares, Spain.
Read More »Microsoft Buys Skype
Tech giant acquires the Internet phone service for a staggering $8.5 billion.
Read More »Groupon, Live Nation Bet Discount Tix Will Make Fans Go Gaga With Sharing
Would you tell a friend if you found a $50 Lady Gaga concert ticket for $25? Ok, so GrouponLive is likely to involve far less popular artists, but Groupon and Live Nation are betting you'll still spread the word among friends--and help drum up attendance
Read More »Rival Anthropologists Donald Johanson and Richard Leakey Reunite after 30-Year Rift
On May 5 famed paleoanthropologists Donald Johanson and Richard Leakey convened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to discuss human origins. It is the first time Leakey and Johanson--longtime rivals--have shared a stage since a public falling out in 1981. Viewers in the live audience and those who tuned in to the webcast tweeted the discussion and uploaded photos to Facebook, so I decided to use Storify to document this historic event.
Read More »Would $12,000 Convince You To Move Closer To Work?
A program in Washington, D.C. is bribing people to move from the suburbs to downtown.
Read More »Prioritize Goals to Profitably Grow Your Business
Six months ago when I started working at Parallels as CEO I knew that I would not be able to accomplish everything I wanted overnight. So I asked myself, "What are the key challenges I want to tackle first?" I worked with my leadership team to define our business priorities and establish clear, measurable goals so we could achieve them to profitably grow our business. I created scorecards for our company with our executives and their teams so everyone understands our goals, what success looks like and how each person is accountable to helping the company achieve its goals.
Read More »Introducing A Priceline For Live Events
Concerts and sporting events have long needed a way to efficiently fill every seat in the house. ScoreBig might be the ticket.
Read More »Women in Technology Face an Uphill Battle
The facts paint a grim picture . Women make up half of the U.S. workforce but represent only 25 percent of the technology industry.
Read More »Al Jazeera’s Social Media Experiment "The Stream" Launches Online Today
Al Jazeera's aggressive expansion into cyberspace hopes to empower a new generation of newsmakers, impact the American news market, and capture the attention of young cable cutters. Fresh off the wild success of Internet-fueled Middle-East revolution stories, Al Jazeera English today is launching the online component to its forthcoming social media-centered news program, The Stream.
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