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What does sustainable design mean to you?

04.19.2011

Time for another SHIFT! Formerly known as “SHIFT: A Green Salon”, SHIFT is AIGA Portland’s now-biannual sustainable design event, which asks the question from the title. SHIFT 6 takes place this Thursday, April 21st, at Eco Trust in Portland, Oregon. I’m proud to announce I’ll be one of the 10 presenters. As you know, my [...]

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Coming up: ReVisioning Value 2011 conference

02.09.2011
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On March 7th and 8th, I will be attending the second ReVisioning Value (“ReVV”) conference “for economic and social innovators focused on increasing economic, ecological and social wealth”. My company Semiosis Communications is a proud conference partner in promotion – I’ll be blogging about the conference before, during, and after the event (see my posts [...]

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What does sustainable design mean to you?

11.19.2010
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Last night I attended another quarterly SHIFT: A Green Salon event by AIGA Portland (I’ve reported here on SHIFT 2, SHIFT 3, and SHIFT 4, where I also presented), which asks the question from this post’s title. SHIFT 5 celebrated the event series’ 1st anniversary by bringing another great lineup of 10 speakers (the list includes [...]

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“The Portland Bottom Line” releases Wednesday, November 10th at Mercy Corps

11.08.2010

The long title is totally justified. After 6 months of work, my passion project “The Portland Bottom Line: Practices for Your Small Business from America’s Hotbed of Sustainability” will be officially published this Wednesday, November 10th! Join me and the book’s contributors in celebrating Portland’s sustainable business at the launch party! When? Wednesday, November 10th, [...]

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This blog post is a success: On lazy event marketing

10.20.2010
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If I ever had my own “What Really Grinds My Gears (in Marketing)” segment, the first one would be about the statement, “XYZ event a success!” It seems that all too often in post-event announcements, events get to be declared a success simply by virtue of having taken place. Sure, you put a lot of [...]

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Need marketing advice? Read a book!

09.24.2010

It’s tough to spend your non-billable time online when those intervals are filled with books. As you may know, aside from occasional book reviews, I’ve been pointing your attention to three crowdsourced, co-created, volumes: “The Portland Bottom Line” “Our Portland Story” “The Age of Conversation” It so happens that this past week was pretty eventful [...]

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What does sustainable design mean to me?

08.12.2010
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I have mentioned AIGA Portland’s event “SHIFT: A Green Salon” a couple of times, here and here. The group’s sustainability committee puts on the awesome pecha kucha to spotlight answers to the titular question. At each SHIFT, 10 designers, marketers, scholars, practitioners, or students present, in 5-minute talks, their ideas, thoughts, and solutions across a [...]

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