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Book Review: How to Blog a Book by Nina Amir Today’s author must be an entrepreneur. It’s not enough to write a book and then hope that someone will discover it, buy it, and read it. Getting your book written is only a small fraction of building an author’s platform. How to Blog a Book, [...]
Platform: Getting Noticed in a Noisy World by Michael Hyatt is a great resource for building a platform that will help promote your product, service, or yourself. Hyatt uses his own blog, www.MichaelHyatt.com, his books and his speaking engagements as examples of products that can be promoted by a solid Platform. Hyatt has an email list [...]
Megacommunities, by Mark Gerencser, et al. (a book review with key points posted by Mark Smith) The problems facing the world are so large that no one sector–business, government or non-profit–can solve the problems by themselves. According to the authors, what is needed is a megacommunity. A megacommunity is a public sphere in which organizations [...]
I co-founded a social business called Univicity in July 2009. We incorporated Univicity as an L3C, a low-profit, limited-liability company, which is a relatively new type of entity in the U.S. designed to bridge the gap between a for-profit and a non-profit with charitable /social benefits. L3C early adopters consider themselves social entrepreneurs. We want to create a sustainable business, [...]
Are you looking for purpose in life? For a purpose big enough to absorb every ounce of your attention, deep enough to plumb the mystery of your passion, and lasting enough to inspire you to your last breath? The Call, by Os Guiness, challenges the reader to figure out out their purpose for living. Are [...]
Forces For Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits One of the emerging trends in philanthropy is the concept of “giving while living”–with donors taking an active role in their philanthropy during their lifetimes. Actually, this concept is not new, it was pioneered by Andrew Carnegie and outlined in his article “Wealth”, published in 1889. Carnegie encouraged [...]
The problems facing the world are so large that no one sector–business, government or non-profit–can solve the problems by themselves. According to the authors, what is needed is a megacommunity
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