Since then he has written 11 books and launched two more Web sites: ChangeThis, which sought to spread ideas through PDF files, and Squidoo, a site that allows users to create pages--called "lenses"--about their interests.
How do we recognize that, in this competitive environment, there are all kinds of opportunities that LinkedIn presents for interconnectedness and people being able to work together and spread ideas around the world and create value, but at the same time, understanding that there are some perils as well?
Or it may have been a result of the spread of ideas via cheap newspapers and books.
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Just as the printing press, by improving the spread of ideas, helped bring on the Renaissance, mind to mind connections could herald a new era of progress.
When secular Muslims and moderate Muslims and Copts are getting death threats, how are we going to spend - how are we going to spread our ideas?
From her base in Hong Kong she has also spread her ideas about fashion and lifestyle through her writing and participation in panels and forums linked to fashion, design and creative industries.
"I talk about how ideas spread, how industries change, " Godin says.
And even though most Europeans say they like America, between half (in Britain) and three-quarters (in France) also say the spread of American ideas and customs is bad.
Something provocative, where conversations are seeded and ideas spread.
This is also part of the Skild mission: To get innovation and ideas to spread.
Near universal access to information via new platforms is democratizing the spread of information and ideas.
Mr. Lashes also represents other photographs, images, sayings or ideas that spread online and become cultural inside jokes.
Summers obliged with what sounded a lot like received VC wisdom: tech investors should look for specialist ideas that can spread quickly, and on a mass scale.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
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But sometimes the best ideas start small, spread widely and then transform entire systems.
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Once they had spread and fructified, the social ideas of the pragmatists came to seem to many Americans naive and old-fashioned.
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That suggests the spread of people, not just ideas, was responsible for establishing the productive farms in Europe that would later underpin great civilizations.
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And one of my ideas is not to spread that civic infrastructure around, but put the school, the clinic, the Y or whatever other social facility there are on the same ground and that becomes the core, maybe with a fire station and a police station right there, and that becomes the core.
This helped the new ideas to achieve recognition and to spread, and it also made tools and funds available (in the form of food-for-work).
As the game spread into new countries and was adopted by different cultures, fresh ideas about how to maximize the collective talents of 11 players stationed across a soccer field were instrumental in transforming the sport and the way it was played.
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Health: While technological progress has dramatically increased the movement of people, products, and ideas throughout the Asia-Pacific, it has also facilitated the spread of infectious diseases, some with pandemic potential.
"We know that teachers already have many ideas to raise them further, and we want to ensure these are explored and, when successful, spread to other schools, " said Ms Morris.
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