Going Green While Saving Green
As Earth Day came and went, we saw a week of innovations in the green initiative. Since Al Gore’s Oscar winning movie “Inconvenient Truth,” the world has been obsessed with revitalizing the economy through means of a more socially conscious way of life…or “going green.” Corporations have embraced the new social experiment as a way … Read more
Blogs: The New Frontier of Online Marketing
Perhaps I’m a bit biased, and maybe this post might become a little self indulgent, but blogs have become an almost necessity in the marketing game over the last few years. The term “blog” is basically a shortened version of the words:“web log” (because that’s so hard and tedious to say). Some of the original … Read more
National Geographic: Why Geography in the Classroom is Crucial
An interesting study was sent to me by Brent Douthit at National Geographic. Brent specializes in maps and geography at National Geographic, a company synonymous with quality in education and exploration of the earth and beyond. Needless to say geography is the name of the game for “Nat Geo” and in a recent study they … Read more
Guest Blogger: CSMC Relieves a Principal’s Headache
As you may recall we talked about the growing trend in Charter Schools on Wednesday. In that article we discussed one of the obstacles plaguing charter schools and even considered it a potential reason to shy away from some of them. The issue of course is management; in a typical school system the principal covers … Read more
It’s Been a Big Week for Twitter
Twitter, the social networking and micro blogging service has been one of if not the fastest growing social media craze in the last year. From what began as a small gimmick that only a few people were using as a way to constantly update their friends on their lives, has exploded into a media giant … Read more
Are You LinkedIn?
It goes without saying that the past few years have been tough on the job market. The US has been crippled with startling unemployment rates and even though there has been some progress recently, unemployed Americans still see themselves as having a huge mountain of uncertainty to overcome. In a time where unemployment rates are … Read more
The iPad: Changing the Future of the Classrooms
I hate to jump on bandwagons, but since this blog revolves around innovation in education and business, I wouldn’t be doing my job to write a post on the new Apple iPad. The iPad has been dubbed the future of classroom education offering students and teachers an interactive way to learn. I visited an Apple … Read more
Guest Blogger: Who Knew Franchising Could Be So Sweet?
At the age of 23 Tarang Gosalia brought something to the landscape of downtown Boston that had been desperately missing…A legitimate Frozen Yogurt Empire. At an unusually young age Tarang, a recent graduate of Babson College, has successfully franchised his first Red Mango store in downtown Boston with the Plan to open multiple units in the coming years. Tarang offered up this blog entry to talk about how Franchising just may be the way to go when starting a new business.
Facebook Will Soon Take Over the World.
For years now Google has had a strangle-hold over the online advertising market. Google Ad-words have been a tool for many businesses ranging in industry and size to help get their company out to the people at an affordable rate. Ad-words take keywords and allow advertisers to display their advertisements in the Google network, through … Read more
