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The founder of Second Life, Philip Rosedale, shares his strategies for sparking employee passion about your company. Step one: Introduce the "LoveMachine." Philip Rosedale is strikingly charasmatic in person—perhaps surprisingly so, considering he's best known as the man behind a virtual world in which humans only interact through flying avatars

Don't think it's possible? Try these 10 tools to give yourself a productivity boost. I don't know about you, but I can't function without having a lot on my plate.

Want to spend more time working on a project than managing it? Try this tool. For a small business owner, collaborating on projects—especially ones with multiple users in multiple locations with a variety of employees, vendors, and clients—has never been easier.

How many students does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb? Tony Anderson, Morehouse College ’08, can answer that.

More than a pretty new layout, here are the ways Timeline is helping everyone from Coldplay to Sierra Club and The New York Times to Doctors Without Borders rethink their public personas. Facebook rolled out its Timeline format for brands this week. It's still early, but we've already seen how the new format opens up fresh opportunities for businesses.

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Travel lighter! Get more work done! Never run out of power! Don't leave home without these tech essentials. I travel frequently in my job as a reporter—in fact, I’m typing this on a plane right now. After each trip, I start to evaluate which gadgets I used the most, which apps I found most useful, and—most importantly—which gadget mistakes I made.

A Procter & Gamble chief defends marketing cutbacks by referring to the less expensive benefits of digital marketing. Um, really

Whether you’re digging your way out of a negative PR avalanche or simply need to scrub a less-than-squeaky-clean outburst, here are tips from branding experts on how to handle public outrage with grace and style. So you torpedoed your brand

There's one simple way to make your customers trust you: be open and honest with them from the start. My co-founder Bill Haney said recently, "In an age where you can look up the top nearby Indian restaurant on your phone, order at a fixed price, and have your food delivered within a half hour to your doorstep all without even talking to a live person, it's insane that for the largest expenditure most Americans make, our homes, we have so little ability to make the building process transparent." He means transparent in terms of cost (building on a fixed price), customization options, and building schedule.

The best reason to buy tablets for your team? No more death by PowerPoint.

The best reason to buy tablets for your team? No more death by PowerPoint. PowerPoint has been around for a quarter century.

RALEIGH, N.C. Bone-hunters and anthropologists typically guard their fossils as priceless specimens.

Many companies are still hiring eye candy to staff their booths at trade shows. What do you think of this widespread practice? For decades, the high tech industry, the computer game industry, the car industry, the tool industry and numerous others have hired "booth babes" to draw customers into their booths at trade shows.