What this Microsoft Office 2007 demo and they will donate $1 to the Smith Family.

There are other fun things to look at too - like the child who thought Microsoft had something to do with toilet paper. This is a nice way to show the human face of a large corporation. And $1 is a nice amount. Well done Microsoft.

Yes, I watched the demo. Now you …

In a long conversation with Anita Kapoor yesterday about creativity and innovation in Singapore, we touched on the topic of the government’s interest in encouraging businesses to get involved with the arts.

One idea that appeared was this: artist in residence programmes within corporations.

Businesses do buy art. So why not buy an artist?

The really interesting, meaty part of this is: how can a business leverage the …

Spotted at St Leonards station. A new direction for CityRail publicity material - more youth-oriented, up-beat and informal; less stuffy bureaucratic:

I am participating in this.

Thanks Andrew for the invite!

So what’s your excuse?!

“We thought we were very different from other animals including our primate relatives, but this is not the case. At least some altruism may have been present in the common ancestor to humans and chimpanzees.” Felix Warneken, from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Read the full article on ITWire.

Ben Kepple’s Prosperity Gospel highlights the importance of dignity in charitable activities - especially microfinance programmes such as kiva.org.

“Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he’ll eat forever.” Lao Tzu

A new approach to information management may very well be sharing as much of it around as possible. The more information we make available to the world (accounting for relevant privacy and security concerns of course), the more opportunities there are for us all, as a global community, to make meaning of it all.

Read Andrew Boyd’s full post The Permaculture Approach to Information

Tom Murphy gives away his cool and fun fonts freely on his website.

Why? “…because I would be making fonts regardless of whether I was distributing them or not, and because I know that people benefit from the fact that I give them away. I take enough stuff for free and it makes me feel good to know that I …

I am already working on two pro-bono projects: with a youth community centre in New South Wales, and a Victoria-based international charity fighting poverty.

What are you doing? What is your business doing?

Download the the official Pay It Forward Day flyer (59Kb PDF).

Find out more on the official Pay It Forward Day website.

Looking to do some volunteer work? Try …

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