If you follow The Raleigh Forum’s blog , you’ll know that we regularly host brown bag lunches on topics that are relevant to our members. We recently held one on personal branding and reputation management with Morgan Siem  {known by her user name morgansiem! See below for more on t...

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Last month, Method announced an ambitious plan to turn plastic trash from the ocean into detergent bottles. It was an exciting idea, but unlike every other material that Method uses in its products, there is no real supply chain for ocean plastic. It only comes from people actually going to the be...

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Weiden+Kennedy, one of Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies , recently wrote an interesting piece on the role of technology in the changing definition of what it means to be creative . They profile how traditional marketing agencies have transitioned into the digital landscape, and how th...

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Louis C.K.: The Next Steve Jobs Will Be A Chick via Fast Company......

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ilovecharts : From Fast Company : “The leaderless, anarchic, revolutionary revolution, Occupy Wall Street, continues to evolve. Offshoot Occupy Oakland, for example, is expected to get support from organized labor and established advocacy groups for a massive planned demonstration Wednesday. ...

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Innovation Is A State Of Mind, Not A Budget Line Item : (via @fastcompany) Are you struggling with where to invest your company’s hard-earned dollars in 2012, or trying to assess how to create a first mover market advantage? Recent findings about how companies invest in innovationâ€...

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emergentfutures : The $10 Million Genomics X Prize Will Make Genetic Sequencing Fast, Cheap, And Accurate The latest offering from the prizes-for -innovatio n organization is specifically looking at the genes of the super elderly. If they’ve lived so long, there must be something...

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Yes, my weekly collection of great links on creativity and writing is back after a several-week hiatus. I don’t have many links to share when I don’t tweet, and I’ve been negligent with my Twitter feed the last couple of weeks. Mea culpa. I still love you. CREATIVITY ̶...

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Why Digital Talent Doesn’t Want To Work At Your Company : rachelinbrooklyn : Digital talent won’t want to work at your company if:   Every element of their work will be pored over by multiple layers of bureaucracy. Even if that’s how the rest of the company operates, it can’t sp...

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fastcompany : Energy efficient home improvements cost a lot up front, but eventually pay themselves off. Exactly how long does it take? Consult this handy chart.......

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