Truth In Advertising? How about Joy In Advertising?
This is an ad…for a bank. As an ad, it is clever and straightforward and…an ad. It was done by the Banco Sabadell in Catalonia, Spain on its 130th anniversary. But, for once, this transcends what it is and gets to a moment of actual human, inspired joy. Just watch the faces in this plaza [...]
Why are Salesforce hiding the emissions of their cloud?
The lack of transparency from Cloud computing providers is something we have discussed many times on this blog – today we thought we’d highlight an example. Salesforce dedicates a significant portion of its site to Sustainability and on “Using cloud computing to benefit our environment”. They even have nice calculators and graphs of how Green [...]
Impressions and Thoughts from a Visit to Greece and Spain
Much has been written about Greece’s repeat elections taking place today, the country’s ongoing financial problems and potential exit from the Euro, as well as the worsening European economies (last week Spain asked for bailout money, Cyprus is next in line to ask, and many believe that Italy will follow). I recently spent a few [...]
Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/09/2010
And here is this week’s Green numbers: Obama commits nearly $2 billion to solar companies President Barack Obama, under pressure to spur job growth, said on Saturday two solar energy companies will get nearly $2 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to create as many as 5,000 green jobs tags: obama solar power [...]
In Search Of HRM/HRMDS/HR Tech “Best” Practices: France/Spain
The Glory Of Carcassone At Night Ron and I will be traveling again from 6/25 through 7/17 (life is short!) mostly in the Languedoc and Dordogne in France and on the Med coast of Spain between Valencia and Barcelona. We’ll be soaking up “best” practices in HRM, the HRM delivery system and HR technology every [...]
