Companies are now becoming more innovative in these tight economic downturns, as well as giving more leadership opportunities to young executives in the workplace, who are savvy with social media.

A recent example is a small group of eight staffers within Porter Novelli, a global PR firm, averaging 26 years old, who developed the concept of Jack + Bill, an agency within an agency focusing on smaller, innovative and creative clientele. They took a 9-to-5 job and turned it into a 3-to-11 new business venture.

To select its clients, the agency held a casting call to search for talented up-and-coming New York based fashion and jewelry designers, stylists and models and selected winners to receive free representation, which includes publicity, branding, and viral marketing services leading up to New York Fashion Week. 

To promote the casting call, they used all types of social media networks and documented the process on their blog- including visits from Gossip Girl stars Penn Badgley

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With the economy slumping, gas pricing soaring, unemployment up, and the stock market down, everyone is cutting back a little if not alot. Less travel, less driving, and vacations turning into staycations means that pennies need to be pinched.

Market indicators show people shopping online more, and that's where dealsidekick.com (http://dealsidekick.com) come in, saving shoppers time and money so they can spend it elsewhere.

Dealsidekick.com saves time by bringing you deals from 100's of sites with one search query, eliminating the time to visit major retailers and other discount sites. Dealsidekick.com saves money by bringing and showing users multiple deals and discounts for things like baby and motherhood goods, shoes, back to school items, and, of course, gadgets and electronics.

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In order to survive in today's media environment, the brain trust of traditional media companies is diving deep into its think-tank to reform online strategies across the web. Due to our current economic circumstances, and increasingly tech-savvy audiences turning to technologies like Twitter and RSS for their daily news, publishers are feeling the strain in a big way.

High-quality reporting from established news sources will always be of value, but how do old foxes of the industry keep their audience in the din of Web 2.0 and its social media counterparts?

One tactic that’s gathering steam is inventing ways to inject a communal feeling into media websites. Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal deployed Loomia's Seen This? widget, which allows readers to 'bring' their social network with them to WSJ.com by showing them content that is popular with their Facebook friends, groups and regions right on the webpage. The NYT and Washington Post have also recently implemented similar socia

Transcend Equity is doing something quite innovative: retrofitting commercial buildings to make them VERY energy efficient, while breaking the mold of the industry in the process.  They are doing this at NO UPFRONT COST to their clients - this kind of thing is being done by NO OTHER COMPANY in the nation.

They have been cited as experts in the space in a recent GlobeSt. article about there being a “Tangible Green ROI In Sight” (http://www.mundaymorning.com/images/clientnews/GlobeSt_(6.4.08).pdf).  

They have done these kinds of projects for a few years now.  In fact, they are just about to begin work on a biomedical building across from a hospital in Dallas.  Much like the Elm Place building they did in downtown Dallas (effectively reduced 968 metric tons of greenhouse gas in this building alone – which essentially equals to taking off roughly 250 cars from the roads), with this project, Transcend Equity…

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Of the 1.5 million nonprofits in the US, far too few have the resources to keep their Websites up-to-date—which makes keeping potential donors, volunteers, and advocates (particularly the younger, tech-savvy sort) abreast of opportunities to ‘do good’ both costly and inefficient.

This very problem is what inspired Greg McHale, the founder and CEO of good2gether, to build a social-media-enabled Web platform that radically transforms the way people discover and engage with nonprofits.

The platform allows nonprofits to enter information about their events, in-kind donation needs, programs, and volunteer opportunities using a simple Web interface (no technical skills required). It’s free and easy for nonprofits to create and manage their profiles—and they’re able to do so as often as they like.

What makes good2gether truly unique is how it distributes this information—through a network of ‘Do Good™ Channels’ that live on existing high-traffic Websites (Boston.com, SFGate.com,

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Goanimate.com.  It’s implications are multi-fold-  in it’s simplest essence- it’s an animation site for the average computer user- no flash required, no advanced skills, just an interest in creating fun cartoons online!  When finished, animations can be embedded into social networks, sent to friends, etc.  Licenses allow users to bring their favorite show characters into their animations….

·         Election time is coming up and users can interact with political characters (we have a partnership in the works with a a political satirist for some webisodes)....

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·         From an entertainment standpoint, Historically, only big professional studios can produce great TV- series like animation.  With the licensing deals, GoAnimate is helping all the little guys out

No matter what city one is in nor what country, there is one constant that no one can control - space.  We are running out of it and quickly.  It impacts many aspects of urban living but none so blatantly as the issue of parking.  As cities continue to grow, unfortunately the amount of parking space available to drivers declines in relation.  The irony is, it doesn't have to be that way.  THe amount of residential/condos, apartment buildings and small businesses that have extra space in their garages and/or people willing to rent their spots while they commute out of the city every day from 8am to 6pm is plenty.   The problem to date is no one has had a central source to collect all this information into an easy to use format...until now.  www.parkingspots.com has been designed to do exactly that: act as a central repository for people who need parking to connect with those who have it.  THe best part?  Because many of the spots on www.parkingspots.com are non-traditional (ie. commerci

With more than three billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide, it’s no wonder that consumers are taking advantage of the mobile medium as their premier source of communication and information. Through global social messaging services like Bluepulse, mobile phones provide users with the simplest and most convenient way to message and communicate with friends using their most personal device.

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