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...former Senator,” he said. Max Anderson, a workshop panelist and current student at KSG and the Business School, spoke of the “open-source movement,” where campaigns enable individuals to independently endorse candidates through innovative technologies like Facebook, YouTube, and text messaging. Anderson said this will transform the 2008 campaigns. Volpe said this shift will require strategists to “cede some control in order to create a relationship with young voters and let them persuade their friends and their peers in ways which they’re used to communicating...
Anyone who has read Getting to Yes, or almost any other negotiations text, will recognize much of Ury's advice. Classics include focusing on underlying interests instead of positions (discussing what you want instead of the way you've decided to get there), developing another option (what Ury calls Plan B but Yes fans will recognize as BATNA--best alternative to a negotiated agreement) and making it easy for people to agree with you (Ury holds up Disney CEO Bob Iger as a master of letting others save face). Ury also includes ways to say no without saying...
...banged his head while attempting to snowboard and text-message simultaneously in Utah...
...remain organized and accessible. Additionally, Harvard’s commitment to digitization must not waver after Verba’s retirement. The outgoing director wisely involved Harvard in the pilot run of the Google Print project, an ambitious attempt to create a free, publicly-accessible database of millions of texts. This amazing database would allow the general public to search not only the titles of books, but their full text as well. Allowing digital access to the library’s collection will not only be a boon to researchers and the public at large, but may also allow...
...them are years behind Amazon.com, which has allowed peeks into the titles on its site since 2003. But Random House and HarperCollins have loftier goals than Amazon: they want to bring literature to the Facebook generation. Both publishing houses are introducing tools that will allow readers to export text from their books to other forums. Readers can use Insight to post content on personal Web sites, while HarperCollins’ widget can place content on social networking sites like MySpace.com. Has the publishing industry really sunk to level of MySpace? Will chunks of Ulysses soon co-exist with millions...