How Social Media Is Changing Paid, Earned & Owned Media

How Social Media Is Changing Paid, Earned & Owned Media.   TOP STORIES MY STORIES TOPICS PEOPLE ACTIVITY VIRAL TOPICS ABOUT MASHABLE Welcome to Mashable! Have an account? Sign in ALL SOCIAL MEDIA TECH & GADGETS BUSINESS & MARKETING VIDEO MOBILE DEV & DESIGN MEDIA SOCIAL GOOD STARTUPS EXPLORE CLASSIFIEDS TRENDING STORIES It’s Here! Spotify Is Coming to the U.S. Thursday 26 Google Docs Spreadsheet Offers Help in Wake of Mumbai Blasts 17 Klout Now Factors in Foursquare … more

Designing Pricing Plans for Subscription-Based Web Apps

Designing Pricing Plans for Subscription-Based Web Apps. Skip site navigation Home All Articles Tutorials Freebies About Contact Subscribe: RSS Feed Follow on Twitter http://platform0.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.html?_=1310514029944&count=horizontal&id=twitter_tweet_button_0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fsixrevisions.com%2Fweb-applications%2Fdesigning-pricing-plans-for-subscription-based-web-apps%2F&related=designinstruct%3AA%20web%20magazine%20for%20designers%20and%20digital%20artists.&text=Designing%20Pricing%20Plans%20for%20Subscription-Based%20Web%20Apps&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsixrevisions.com%2Fweb-applications%2Fdesigning-pricing-plans-for-subscription-based-web-apps%2F&via=sixrevisionshttp://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/designing-pricing-plans-for-subscription-based-web-apps/&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font=arial&colorscheme=light&height=21 Designing Pricing Plans for Subscription-Based Web Apps Jul 5 2011 by Ravi Pathak |7 Comments |StumbleBookmark Follow Six Revisions on Dribbble! When your business model revolves around reoccurring subscriptions — which is a popular model for software as a service (SaaS) products like Basecamp, FreshBooks and CampaignMonitor — the most difficult part of generating revenue becomesgetting … more

Food Supply Under Strain on a Warming Planet – NYTimes.com

Food Supply Under Strain on a Warming Planet – NYTimes.com. Environment WORLD U.S. N.Y. / REGION BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE ENVIRONMENT SPACE & COSMOS HEALTH SPORTS OPINION ARTS STYLE TRAVEL JOBS REAL ESTATE AUTOS TEMPERATURE RISING A Warming Planet Struggles to Feed Itself Josh Haner/The New York Times Victor Valenzuela selects wheat plants for breeding at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico.More Photos » By JUSTIN GILLIS Published: June 4, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER E-MAIL … more

The Truth About Climate Change, Still Inconvenient – NYTimes.com

The Truth About Climate Change, Still Inconvenient – NYTimes.com. WORLD U.S. N.Y. / REGION BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE HEALTH SPORTS OPINION ARTS STYLE TRAVEL JOBS REAL ESTATE AUTOS OP-ED COLUMNIST The Truth, Still Inconvenient By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: April 3, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER COMMENTS (428) E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SHARE So the joke begins like this: An economist, a lawyer and a professor of marketing walk into a room. What’s the punch line? They were three of the five … more

Weak Educational System Hobbles Portugal – WSJ.com

Weak Educational System Hobbles Portugal – WSJ.com. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 31.0px; font: 28.0px Georgia} A Nation of Dropouts Shakes Europe Article Video Comments (32) MORE IN EUROPE » Email Print Save This↓ More + More Text By CHARLES FORELLE LISBON—Isabel Fernandes, a cheery 22-year-old with a constellation of stars tattooed around her right eye, isn’t sure how many times she repeated fifth grade. Two, she says with a laugh. Or maybe three. She … more

A New Start in Florence, Italy, for an American Woman – WSJ.com

A New Start in Florence, Italy, for an American Woman – WSJ.com.   ARCH 21, 2011 DESTINATIONS Moving to Italy How a Tennessee native—after toiling in piles of paperwork—found a new life in the city of Florence Article Comments MORE IN RETIREMENT PLANNING » Email Print Save This↓ More + More Text By KAREN MILLS Editor’s note: Thinking about living—or just traveling— abroad? This is part of a series of travel stories in which we ask Americans … more

Top 12 Online Fundraising Platforms for Donors & Non-Profits

Top 12 Online Fundraising Platforms for Donors & Non-Profits.   Mashable | The Social Media Guide VIRAL TOPICS ABOUT MASHABLE Welcome to Mashable! Have an account? Sign in ALL SOCIAL MEDIA TECH & GADGETS BUSINESS & MARKETING VIDEO MOBILE DEV & DESIGN MEDIA SOCIAL GOOD STARTUPS EXPLORE CLASSIFIEDS TRENDING STORIES Is Netflix the Next HBO? 21 Twitter Adds Permanent HTTPS Setting to Improve Security 16 iPad 2 Shortages Hit Web & Retail Stores35 Top 12 Online … more

Alternatives to Strategic Planning | Blue Avocado

Alternatives to Strategic Planning | Blue Avocado. Alternatives to Strategic Planning FINANCE & STRATEGY • BY JAN MASAOKA • MARCH 14, 2011 • EMAIL PRINT In Part 1 of this two-article series, we discussed some of the ways in which strategic planning processes have served nonprofits poorly. One key reason is that strategic planning is the primary organizational change process that nonprofits know about, that boards are comfortable with, and that funders will fund. In this … more

How Skyscrapers Can Save the City – Magazine – The Atlantic

How Skyscrapers Can Save the City – Magazine – The Atlantic. March 2011 Print | Close How Skyscrapers Can Save the City BESIDES MAKING CITIES MORE AFFORDABLE AND ARCHITECTURALLY INTERESTING, TALL BUILDINGS ARE GREENER THAN SPRAWL, AND THEY FOSTER SOCIAL CAPITAL AND CREATIVITY. YET SOME URBAN PLANNERS AND PRESERVATIONISTS SEEM TO HAVE A MISPLACED FEAR OF HEIGHTS THAT YIELDS DAMAGING RESTRICTIONS ON HOW TALL A BUILDING CAN BE. FROM NEW YORK TO PARIS TO MUMBAI, THERE’S … more

Technology PR List: Blogs and Mainstream Media

Technology PR List: Blogs and Mainstream Media.   Technology PR List: Blogs And Mainstream Media by Alex on February 8, 2009 ·Comments We talked about PR Tips for Startups previously on this blog. The climate has changed and a stream of steady PR is now more important than ever. Positive PR helps get users and keep the startup on everyone’s radar. The challenge is to generate coverage even when you do not have major news like funding or … more