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Business & Economics
| 10/19/2011 | Don Tapscott

Three Principles For a New Wall Street

Protesters set up the “Occupy Wall Street” base camp in New York a month ago because the location epitomizes the economic forces that control the U.S. and global economies. As one sign read: “This is not a recession. It’s a robbery.” To many it feels like just that.   Read more

Technology & Media
| 10/13/2011 | Macrowikinomics

How Technology is Changing Your Career

In this interview, Don talks about how he was prodded to be on Twitter by a younger mentor – he notes he’s no Ashton Kutcher but has 30,000 followers – and how you can also design your life to keep in tune with our more collaborative, less hierarchical world.   Read more

Business & Economics
| 10/06/2011 | Anthony Williams

The Rise of the Micro-Multinational

In a forceful, hard-hitting policy brief entitled The Rise of the Micro-Multinational: How Freelancers and Technology-Savvy Start-Ups are Driving Growth, Jobs and Innovation, Executive Director Ann Mettler and Senior Fellow Anthony Williams look at the …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 10/05/2011 | Macrowikinomics

Don Tapscott and Macrowikinomics Shortlisted for the Thinkers50

The Thinkers50, a publicly voted ranking of global business thinkers, today announced the shortlisted nominees for this year’s awards, and Don Tapscott and Macrowikinomics have been shortlisted for the 2011 Global Village and Book Awards, respectively.   Read more

| 09/09/2011 | Macrowikinomics

Rethinking Civilization with Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt

Don Tapscott discusses the age of networked intelligence, wiki revolutions and solutions to industries in crisis on TWiT Triangulation with Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt. Watch the video on TWiT.

| 08/24/2011 | Macrowikinomics

Help Rename Macrowikinomics in Paperback

When we chose the title Macrowikinomics for our latest book, we felt that it captured the essence of what the book was about: using wikinomics principles to rethink and reboot a wide range of ailing institutions in the economy and society.   Read more

Science, Education & Health
| 07/18/2011 | Macrowikinomics

Memo To Merck: Rethink Big Pharma!

In a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal, Don Tapscott, co-author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, notes that in last five years the rate of business model innovation has not accelerated. Overall, the gains have been modest.

In the article, Tapscott offers to help out five struggling industries– big pharma, music, financial risk management, green manufacturing and health care—with interesting suggestions as to how they should rethink their business models.   Read more

Science, Education & Health
| 07/15/2011 | Macrowikinomics

Rethinking How We Teach The ‘Net Generation’

Few will argue about America’s colleges and universities being critical to our economic and intellectual future. And by many measures, that future looks promising: Competition for places in the country’s top schools is fiercer than …   Read more

NGOs & Government
| 07/05/2011 | Macrowikinomics

Don Tapscott Four-Part Series on The Agenda

The Agenda with Steve Paikin is the flagship current affairs program of TVOntario, Ontario’s public broadcaster. The Agenda explores local and global social, political, cultural and economic issues. The week of July 4, The Agenda …   Read more

NGOs & Government
| 05/20/2011 | Don Tapscott

Social media can help build Arab governments too

In the Arab world this winter, social media proved that it can facilitate rebellion and even topple regimes. Now it faces a much harder challenge. Can social media help to build new governments? The wiki …   Read more