Today we filmed our first scenes of the “We Are Standing Up” viral video we are planning to release as a teaser for the October 18th OneVoice Summit: One Million Voices To End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. It was great seeing the energy of all involved, the real commitment, and the real awakening that happens in [...]
Bob Tedeschi of the New York Times today wrote in his e-commerce column about the difficult balancing act that manufacturers like PeaceWorks have to make in the online world, when selling to consumers without undermining their retail sales channel. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/13/technology/13ecom.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin The basic rule and the basic opportunity in this space are as follows: * [...]
A business entity that explicitly and practically sets out to not just make money but also achieve some positive societal impact. Archane tax systems have forced upon our minds and our legal structures the assumption that an entity has to either have profit-making as a goal OR be dedicated to benefiting society. While there are [...]
Doing something out of ‘self-interest’ but defining self-interest in a broad enough and sufficiently long-term &/or sufficiently consequential way that bears in mind societal impact. Example: working to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not ‘altruistic’ at all. It is based on the imperative to prevent a tragic world for our offspring. It is based on [...]
In self-organizing systems, extremists rise up. In the offline world, wackos can’t thrive like they do in the blog world……. colorful scary birds get a disproportionate amount of media and end-user attention.