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Ad and I (with Josef on the right)

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Andy and I (with Mao in the background)

Andy and I (with Mao in the background)

Andy and I (with Mao in the background)

Jean-Michel and I

Jean-Michel and I

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It’s official, the Linchpin Day Boston Group has found a venue. And what a great venue!
Thanks to Abby and Leah, and to the generosity of Microsoft, Linchpins from the Greater Boston area will congregate on Monday, June 10, 2010 (6:00 PM to 9:00PM) at the New England R&D Center at One Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02142 .
If one or more of these words describe you:

creative soul
linchpin
purple cow
enlightened business person
entrepreneur
entrepreneur-in-the-making
marketer
innovator
renaissance woman or man
educator at large
frustrated with the status quo
social.everything

Then, this is an event where you can meet vis-à–vis like-minded individuals. …

Seth Godin, of Purple Cow fame need no introduction to the creative entrepreneur and marketer.
Have you read Linchpin yet? While Linchpin is not for anyone, you owe it to yourself to take a look at it, test drive a few pages at random, and see if it resonates with you. Chances are you’ll like some parts, love some others, and hate a few more. But it will make you think, it is more food for thought than a treatise; it will provoke more questions than provide answers: answers are …

For CEOs, creativity is now the most important leadership quality for success in business, outweighing even integrity and global thinking, according to a new study by IBM. The study is the largest known sample of one-on-one CEO interviews, with over 1,500 corporate heads and public sector leaders across 60 nations and 33 industries polled on what drives them in managing their companies in today’s world.
Fast Company‘s annual list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business just took on a whole new depth. And this year’s list will be …

A portrait of a young woman, which had been dismissed as a fake Raphael and lay forgotten in the basement of an Italian palace for 40 years, has been confirmed as genuine by art experts and could be worth up to £25 million.

The newly-discovered 12 by 16 inch oil painting was long thought to have been a copy made in the style of the Renaissance master long after his death and dismissed as almost worthless.
But art historians now believe it to be a first draft by Raphael of part …

# 7: Spooky Entanglement
One of the strangest predictions of the theory of quantum mechanics is that particles can become “entangled” so that even after they are separated in space, when an action is performed on one particle, the other particle responds immediately.
In June 2009 scientists announced they had measured entanglement in a new kind of system – two separated pairs of vibrating particles. Previous experiments had entangled the internal properties of particles, such as spin states, but this was the first time scientists had entangled the particles’ pattern of …

From The New York Times: “Where will you be on Sunday, May 2, at 15:00 hours (U.T.C.) ? Wherever you are, we hope you’ll have a camera — or a camera phone — in hand. And we hope you’ll be taking a picture to send to Lens that will capture this singular instant in whatever way you think would add to a marvelous global mosaic; a Web-built image of one moment in time across the world.”

NOTE: 15:00 hours U.T.C. = 11:00 AM E.S.T.
Link: http://submit.nytimes.com/moment
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{Photography © 2010 by Toscana Enterprises …

Social media can be a huge boon for non-profits, NGOs and causes. Many are finding ways to let folks help those in need with small actions and donations. Here are nine ways you can make a difference in people’s lives with just a few minutes of your time or a few dollars from your PayPal account.
Of course, if you want to spend more than five minutes or $25, you could do a lot more good for folks in need. But this is a great way to begin cultivating a …

If you are an Entrepreneur or a Marketer, the name Seth Godin requires no introductions, he is one of the few individuals today who not only writes beautifully about Marketing and Entrepreneurship in a manner that makes sense, but he also eats his own dog food:

His dog food being his blog and his books
The place where he eats it is at Squidoo, in his books and seminars

So now he wants to go on the road, and in his typical style, he’s going to let his …