To ensure that the activities respect the culture and customs of each individual country and region, Toshiba Group appointed 300 employees as “Social Contributions Coordinators”. These coordinators work together with individual group employees around the world to actively promote social contribution activities to solve the challenges facing each local community.

The Grand America, which opened in March 2001, is  the most spectacular, incongruous, over-the-top addition to  Salt Lake City’s skyline. It was built by Earl Holding, who grew up in Salt Lake, and whose many interests include the Sinclair Oil Corporation, the Sun Valley ski resort, and the Little America hotel chain.

Its 775 rooms and ballrooms and courtyards are spread across nearly all of a 10-acre city block formerly occupied by pawnshops and warehouses. It’s the kind of place where after you finish admiring the giant vases of flowers in the lobby, and the English woolen carpets, and how carefully the grain of the Carrara marble has been matched from panel to panel, the elevator whisks you up to the 17th floor, where a plate of fruit that can actually be eaten is waiting in your outsized room. And where after you have unpacked, and taken the hand of the Italian silk comforter on the bed, and spent 10 minutes staring appreciatively at the perfectly mortised baseboard in the bathroom, you find yourself wondering: What the hell is a place like this doing here? (From Travel & Leisure Magazine)

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In July of 2007, after about six months of planning, VizThink was launched…

Today VizThink operates conferences in North America and Europe, a successful workshop series featuring industry gurus and local communities in several cities, with many more in the process of organizing their first event. Jack Hadley, founder of ClarityWorx is an avid proponent of visual thinking to solve business problems and to help clarify brand messaging. He recently attended a workshop with Dave Gray and Karl Gude in Chicago where he met up with VizThink’s organizers.

VizThink Utah will hold it’s first workshop on THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2009 at CoworkUtah in Orem. Subscribe to the VizThink Salt Lake City blogsite HERE and watch for details!

VizThink Conference in San Jose

I am currently attending the North American conference in San Jose.

Yesterday I was so impressed by the work AutoDesk is doing. As a world leader in 3D design software, Autodesk enables people to visualize, analyze, and experience their ideas before they are real. With a wide spectrum of industry-specific products, Autodesk creates best-in-class solutions designed to meet people’s unique business needs.

AutoDesk created the following visual presentation after the TED conference that recently concluded:

Whether you’re a solo entrepreneur or a large corporation social media marketing strategies will boost your marketing efforts.

YOU KEEP HEARING THE BUZZWORDS… blogs, RSS, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, social media, Flickr, Linkedin, DIGG, Vimeo…  and the list goes on. But what does it all mean? Can well-developed social media strategies have application in your business marketing efforts? In a word, yes.

Come enjoy a fast-paced, 90-minute, visually engaging, multi-media overview about the growth of Social Media Marketing in business. See examples of different, creative ways businesses are using Social Media Marketing—including ways we’ve helped companies engage their audiences and support their marketing efforts. And most importantly, you’ll learn how these strategies can maximize your marketing dollars, support your traditional marketing efforts, and help your business grow. It doesn’t need to be overwhelming, difficult or expensive.

Here’s what a recent attendee had to say:

Join us!  Seating is limited to 8 people per session to allow for helpful Q&A.

Dates: Overviews Are Held EVERY WEDNESDAY
Time: Noon to 2pm
Cost: $15 (includes a delicious lunch from PF Chang’s and all printed, take-away materials!)
Location: Cowork Utah in Orem (map here, www.coworkutah.com/location)
RSVP: call Jack at 801-225-8900

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:   Jack Hadley, ClarityWorx’s founder, has 20 years’ experience as an award-winning copywriter, branding consultant and agency creative director. But more often he’s referred to as a messaging strategist, corporate storyteller, and epiphany catalyst. ClarityWorx helps companies clarify their message and tell compelling stories that nail business objectives. Jack also has extensive experience working with businesses to execute Social Media Marketing strategies and coaching them through their learning curve. He currently co-teaches a Social Media Marketing lecture series at Brigham Young University.

From human relationships to the iPhone, when one looks thoughtfully at things of worth, more often than not, they’re things that strike a reasonable balance between relevance and irrelevance. The magic is in the distillation. Balancing simplicity with complexity in communications doesn’t mean going without. Rather, it means abandoning a perceived obligation to keep “all the functionality” at the expense of clarity.