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Are you buying "soft" power?
India is fast becoming a superpower, says Shashi Tharoor -- not just through trade and politics, but through "soft" power, its ability to share its culture with the world through food, music, technology, Bollywood. He argues that in the long run it's not the size of the army that matters as much as a country's ability to influence the world's hearts and minds. Watch TED video
Are you buying soft power? Share your thoughts here
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Blog Posts
Top 10 Rejected Slogans for Indiana
10. #Indiana: Kentucky's hat
9. #Indiana: The state th… Continue
Posted by Rhett N. Cochran on December 2, 2009 at 9:59am — 3 Comments
Trendy #Indiana
So here's a cool little effort that won't take more than a moment of your time.
Well, *two* moments if you're one of the few cave-dwellers who doesn't have a Twitter account yet. Sign up and then get back to us.
Ready? OK, here we go.
Fellow Indianapolis resident, social-media addict and all-around cool person Amy Stark has mounted an initiative to get… Continue
Posted by Leah Barr on December 2, 2009 at 10:16pm
Show #20 and counting
"With a wave of my wand, the world becomes a stage for my antics." A good friend on the yearbook staff wrote that for me. How prophetic?
As some of you know, I produce a monthly magic show at Theatre On The Square. I decided to do it because no other magician was trying to do an ongoing show in Indianapolis to support the showcasing of magic and variety arts. Illusions Restaurant and Magic Moments had closed an… Continue
Posted by Taylor Martin on December 2, 2009 at 11:30pm
Donate ONE minute of your time to show your Smaller #Indiana pride! Help Get #Indiana2Trend! 12-03-09 @ 12:30pm ET -
December 3, 2009 (12:30pm EST / 11:30am CST) tweeters from the banks of the Ohio River to the shores of Lake Michigan will donate one minute to the future of our state by sending a tweet containing “#Indiana” The goal is to get #Indiana to trend among the top ten words on twitter, exposing our stat… Continue
Posted by Amy Stark on December 1, 2009 at 11:53pm — 11 Comments
One Art Event a Week: Indianapolis Opera's La Boheme
On Friday, November 20th a group of friends and I got together to see the Indianapolis… Continue
Posted by Laura Frank on December 1, 2009 at 4:29pm
Profitability = Cross-Multiplication and Division
We created a tiny charity called Granny Annie's Charity Pies that will donate 20 pies and $1,000 to two Indianapolis charities this holiday season.
Here's the fun part; Jenna chose to marry someone who thinks about small business lea… Continue
Posted by Jamar Cobb-Dennard on December 1, 2009 at 9:12am
Seth Godin is My Hero - It's All About Building Your Tribe
Shocking Tiger Woods video (exclusive)
You should be careful about headlines.
It's pretty easy to write a headline that will get someone to forgive your spam, and perhaps even to open your note (CyberMonday! 85% off...). It's pretty easy to write a headline that will get someone to click through on their RSS reader. It's even easy to write a tweet that will get a click through.
But is it better to get a click and then annoy someone, or better to only reac… Continue
Posted by Serina Kelly on December 1, 2009 at 6:51am — 1 Comment
Emotion
You’ve seen the trailers. It has Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw and a gigantic African American high school student from the wrong side of town.
I wasn’t interested in seeing this movie at all. The reason was that I already knew exactly what was going to happen. So did you.
Here’s what I thought the storyline would be – We are introduced to a disadvantaged poor kid from a bad part of town. The odds are stacked against… Continue
Posted by CJ McClanahan on November 30, 2009 at 9:49am — 4 Comments
Web 2.0 Expo in New York
The first session that really piqued my interest was "The Elephant in the Room: Social Media ROI… Continue
Posted by Michael Reynolds on November 30, 2009 at 12:30am
Elinor Ostrom's Organization of Cooperation
It might have caught your attention several weeks back when professor Elinor Ostrom from Indiana University w
… ContinuePosted by Janneane Blomenberg on November 30, 2009 at 11:40am
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December 3, 2009 from 9am to 8pm – Your computer
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North Indianapolis Christian Business Networking Association
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Mistletoe Mixology Party
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What do you think: Did God create us or did we create God?
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Are you buying soft power?
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Is "real time" killing real news? 10 Replies
Started by Pat Coyle in Media: mass and social. Last reply by Erik Deckers 3 hours ago.
Free Nutcracker Tickets from IBC 2 Replies
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Indiana's Best - Designers 36 Replies
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Interested in hiring interns or new grads? Come to Purdue's "COM Day"! 1 Reply
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Holiday festive fun in Indy
Started by Justin Brady in Non Profit: events, news, ideas 10 hours ago.
Does anyone else hate the term "Social Media Gurus"? 14 Replies
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