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• Wednesday, October 10, 2012 7:43 PM

  The end of polio, malaria, tuberculosis and infant AIDS - 4 killer digital initiatives

  The Big Push Campaign By Patrick Doherty You don't need to be a brain surgeon to understand that basic, accessible healthcare is a human right denied to many of those in the developing world, particularly children. The good news is that we are winning Read More... Posted by patrick | 0 Comments Filed under: Media, Politics, Millennials, Africa, Infrastructure, entrepreneurship, Latin America, social entrepreneurship, NGO, United Nations, Social Good Summit

• Tuesday, October 02, 2012 12:41 PM

  Social Good Summit - how social media and technology is changing the word for good

  By Patrick Doherty Last weekend's Social Good Summit (SGS) brought together a vast array of thinkers, innovators, philanthropists, politicians, journalists, social activists and, of course, celebrities to discuss the power of technology and social media Read More... Posted by patrick | 69 Comments Filed under: Media, Politics, Millennials, Africa, Infrastructure, entrepreneurship, Latin America, social entrepreneurship, NGO, United Nations, Social Good Summit

• Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:45 PM

  Doing anything special on Monday? How about helping change the world?

  By Patrick Doherty This coming weekend (September 22nd to 24th), the Social Good Summit is on again in New York City and we will be there. Held during UN Week when world leaders gather for the UN General Assembly , the event unites people from around Read More... Posted by patrick | 0 Comments Filed under: Media, Politics, Millennials, Africa, Infrastructure, entrepreneurship, Latin America, social entrepreneurship, NGO, United Nations, Social Good Summit

• Thursday, September 01, 2011 7:19 AM

  Small Business, Big Vision

  Matthew and Adam Toren have some career advice for young people today: if you want a great job, start a great company. The Torens run YoungEntrepreneur.com , one of the Web's best sites for practical advice on starting, running, promoting and growing Read More... Posted by Rob | 2 Comments Filed under: Millennials, small business, entrepreneurship

• Tuesday, December 21, 2010 2:40 PM

  Net Generation Entrepreneurs: Four Perspectives

  Earlier this fall, I made a guest appearance at the Digital Media in Emerging Economies class at the University of Washington, where Y oung World Rising is part of the syllabus. One of the students, Amy Rainey , was inspired to produce this short film Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: education, Media, Millennials, Young World Rising, blended entrepreneurship, emerging markets strategy

• Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:35 AM

  Generation Blend in Insurance

  The piece for the New York Times I co-wrote with Michael Costonis from Accenture on the problems of the insurance industry recruiting next-generation workers ran in the "PreOccupations" column in last Sunday's Business Section. It's more Generation Blend Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: organizational culture, Millennials, management, demographics

• Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:36 PM

  The Economist's Fashionable NetGen Contrarianism

  This week's Economist quarterly technology supplement asks , "is it really helpful to talk about a new generation of ‘digital natives' who have grown up with the Internet?" Given that I've written a book on the subject, you can count me in the "yes" column Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: generational theory, Millennials

• Friday, February 12, 2010 9:05 AM

  Top 30 Blogs for Young Entrepreneurs

  I'm a little late to the party, but last month, Unstrapp'd compiled this useful list of the top 30 Young Entrepreneur Blogs of 2009. I came across it via Shirley's Zone , the blog of an 18 year-old digital entrepreneur and business pundit from Ghana. Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Millennials, entrepreneurship

• Monday, May 18, 2009 9:30 AM

  Young Africa Rising

  This is a repost from my April 22 column for Internet Evolution . It makes a nice overture for my work-in-progress, Young World Rising. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Read More... Posted by Rob | 3 Comments Filed under: Millennials, Young World Rising

• Monday, March 02, 2009 12:45 PM

  Managing the Blended Workplace

  My friend, colleague and co-author Dan Rasmus has a new piece in Strategy + Business called "Keeping up with Workforce 2020." In it, Dan looks at some of the major themes of the coming decade that managers should keep in mind, including moves toward the Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Millennials, management, productivity