Once upon a time, the Nielsen rating system mattered. Not any longer. What matters now is fans and buzz. What matters in the digital age is is tribes and Twitter.

It's been several decades since families gathered around a TV in the living room and watched shows together. When...

In case you haven't noticed, the future has arrived.

You can't go through a day without receiving a message about a new movement.

The reinvention movement.

Cultures, individuals, and organizations are all deep into the reinvention process.

Scroll through Google, pick up a magazine, turn on your smartphone...

The Boston Marathon terrorist attack was horrible. Three innocent lives were taken and many people were injured and disfigured for life.

One thing the photographs taken the day of the Marathon show is that a great many countries from all over the world were represented. The flags near the finish...

After the GOP's resounding electoral defeat in the 2012 presidential election, which blindsided elite Republican strategists, there was an outcry from media pundits, party leaders, and bloggers. The Republican Party had to reinvent itself. In the February 17, 2013 issue of the New York Times Magazine, "The...

If you ask someone who they are, most of the time they'll begin by telling you what they do for a living. But whatever field they are in, chances are they have so many untapped or unexplored sides, there's enough of "who they are" for two lifetimes. The question of...

The reinvention of a career, a company, or a governmental policy usually begins with looking at what's working, and then asking what isn't working. Reinvention is a lot like revising a piece of writing. To reinvent, you review what currently is and ask yourself what's not moving the process ahead....

Over the last 20 years work has been reinvented, restructured, and rebooted. The top-tier and bottom level of what working means has been redefined by corporations, visionaries, technologies and individuals. If you're looking for work, you're better off searching for projects, not positions these days. And if you ever wanted...

Children are told cheaters never win, and winners never cheat. They are brought up to always tell the truth, since lying is wrong. These are good truisms to instill in young minds, in every culture. As we get older, it becomes clear how cheaters do, in fact, sometimes win. Quite...

Death of an Innovator and Activist

There's been much debate on who holds the responsibility over the recent suicide of Reddit founder and Internet freedom advocate Aaron Swartz, a young and talented man who committed suicide. A number of facts point toward the 26-year-old taking his...

Jon Ramer is a software entrepreneur turned social engineer, a civic leader, a community organizer, an inventor, and a musician. He is the designer and co-founder of several Deep Social Networks, including the Ideal Network. He was an organizational participant in Seeds of Compassion,...

Jon Ramer is a software entrepreneur turned social engineer, a civic leader, a community organizer, an inventor, and a musician. He is the designer and co-founder of several Deep Social Networks, including the Ideal Network. He was an organizational participant in Seeds of Compassion,...

In Anytown USA, next door to the Post Office is a Dollar Store. The Dollar Store buys stamps from the Post Office and sells them for a nickel more than the Post Office does. Which is a pretty good deal, especially when there are long lines at the Post Office....

The Internet has done a wonderful job of connecting us psychically to one another. We have the means to know other people's thoughts, in groups and individually. And in turn, the web has exposed humanity's most damaging tendencies to engage in cruelty and dehumanization.

It is in our nature...

"Tis impossible to be sure of anything but Death and Taxes." From Christopher Bullock, the Cobler of Preston (1716). Often attributed to Benjamin Franklin.

"The only thing we can count on is death and taxes." So goes a standard version of one of the most famous quotes that's been passed...

America voted and its voice was heard. We have reelected President Obama, and millions breathed a huge sigh of relief. President Obama has guided us out of one of the most challenging times in our history, even without a helping hand from the opposing party. The leaders of the Republican...

"For us to say this is a once-in-a-generation, that it's not going to happen again, as elected officials that would be short-sighted. This city, this region, is very susceptible to coastal flooding. Part of learning from this is learning that climate change is a reality."
-- New York Gov....

While reinvention has been a constant undercurrent in American life, over the past several years, reinvention has coalesced into a diverse movement, taking place at all levels of society.

Businesses, people, and organizations are all involved in reinvigorating, redirecting, rebuilding, and reworking who they are and what they do.

It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "Try to be a little kinder."

~ Aldous Huxley

How much is a campaign for kindness worth? In...

It's come around again: election season in the Divided States of America. And not just any election season, the big one, the presidential election. And in our politically divided country, presidential politics have reached new levels of animosity, spending, partisanship, accusations, and sometimes, just outright weirdness. Thanks, Mr. Eastwood! Your...

If you haven't been living in an Internet-free zone, you already know a few things about the Russian Punk band called Pussy Riot. They were arrested in March, and charged with hooliganism after a February performance in Moscow's main cathedral where they belted out a "Punk prayer" pleading with the...