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The Power Of The Internet, Ideas And People

It’s a global thing. You wouldn’t understand 😉
BL Ochman‘s latest Blog entry, Is Bush Kidding? $35 Million Is Not Enough for Tsunami Relief! Let’s Prove That America is Not Stingy!, she says:
“The Bush administration has pledged a stingy $35 million dollars to Southeast Asia’s tsunami relief. Are they kidding? The U.S. is spending $35 million every seven hours on the war in Iraq.
Let’s prove what America is made of. Let’s top that paltry $35 million with online donations to The Red Cross, Oxfam or through the donation database on The Southeast Asia Earthquake and Tsunami wiki.
We need to help. Today. More than 160,000 are dead from the disaster. They have no food, no water, no medicine, no way to even bury the dead. Send what you can. Do it now.
We can raise $35 million online in a day!”
OK, I’m Canadian, but I love the idea and I hope it spreads.
Give generously.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.