Links for 9/17/09
Find Opportunity in Adversity (Center for Creative Leadership): 9 bullet-points to help ease the transition into the post-recession economy. LINK
Value of Arts and Culture Redefined – Video (Creatively Curious): John Holden (formerly of Demos) describes the expanding and interrelated reach of arts and culture… LINK
Funding Photojournalism in the Future (Gizmotastic): Thoughts on The [...]

Links for 9/16/09
Love is the new black (via so-fauxreal.com): Simple poster with text. LINK
Walkability: Measuring Urban Quality of Life (via Downtown Suites News- Vancouver): This web-based tool allows you to assign a walkable score to a residence, in order to gauge quality-of-life:  LINK
Whuffie Bank (Uniquely the Epitome): A nonprofit organization dedicated to building a new [...]

We’re going to start posting (mostly) daily links of articles/posts/findings we’re either reading or thought were worth noting. These used to go into our “Shorts” section within our sidebar, but we’re going to try fitting them into one daily post.

Google’s new FastFlip news “reading” tool is a giant robot sent to crush the “real” people, the peer-to-peer peeps, using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. to share news links. The people will prevail!

Here are my slides and an edited-down video from my presentation. The content of this presentation includes both tools and tactics that creative professionals should be using to be “active” in their marketing. The goal of “Active Marketing” is to display to your audience your verve for your subject…

Shawna Coronado’s recent post on Gardner Rant points out how green lawns can be put to use as food producing gardens . Not only for the owners consumption, but importantly to help feed the hungry…

A strong solution to the ills of our current economic disaster, and the way to assist the 9.7% of residents now out of work, is to get creative. I’m urging creative leaders to step up, to match themselves with producers, with engineers, with do-ers to get this economy turned around…