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Technology & Media
| 11/21/2011 | Macrowikinomics

Chatting With One of the World’s Top Business Minds

Forbes just released a list of the top 50 business thinkers in the world. And three of the magazine’s top 10 — Roger Martin, Don Tapscott and Malcolm Gladwell — are Canadian. The interviews discussed …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 11/18/2011 | Macrowikinomics

Ontario Business Report: Macrowikinomics Made Easy

The Ontario Business Report interviews Don Tapscott on reinventing the automotive, green tech, finance, and media industries. Read the full report at Ontario Business Report.

Business & Economics
| 11/15/2011 | Macrowikinomics

A Forbes Interview with Don Tapscott: The Industrial Age Has Finally Run out of Gas

Somewhere, between the APEC CEO Summit with world leaders in Hawaii, receiving a place on the Thinkers 50, a keynote speech at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, and another trip to Brazil for TEDx USPLeste all on the same day, I …   Read more

Business & Economics
| 11/15/2011 | Macrowikinomics

Don Tapscott Ranks 9th in Thinkers50 2011 Global Business Awards

The Thinkers50 is a premier ranking of global business thinkers, with advisers drawn from America, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.   Read more

Science, Education & Health
| 11/10/2011 | Don Tapscott

Collaborating for Change in Healthcare

Despite the advancements of modern medicine, our basic approach to healthcare has remained unchanged for centuries. It assumes that physicians are smart and patients aren’t. Doctors wait in their office or hospital for sick people to come to them in order to be told what to do. Traditionally, patients have been passive and ill-informed, playing little or no role in deciding their own treatment.   Read more

NGOs & Government
| 11/09/2011 | Macrowikinomics

Don Tapscott on the Occupy Movement on CBC Metro Morning

Matt Galloway, host of number one Toronto morning show, CBC Metro Morning, interviews Don Tapscott on the Occupy movement.
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Technology & Media
| 11/02/2011 | Macrowikinomics

Don Tapscott as Global Curator for Social Media Week

Empowering change: Reflecting on the global impact of social media and its role as a catalyst in driving cultural, political, economic and social change, Social Media Week’s theme in February 2012 will focus on Empowering Change through Collaboration. Don Tapscott announces his role as global curator.   Read more

Technology & Media
| 10/26/2011 | Don Tapscott

Empowering Change Through Collaboration

I’m enthusiastic about taking on the role of “Curator” for social media week. Between now and my kickoff speech Feb 13 to cities around the world, I’ll be writing a series of articles to stimulate thinking and discussion in our global community.   Read more

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