Archive for 'Magazines'

Thanks to DJ Vince Golangco (a.k.a. Deejay Vince) of Mellow 94.7, I had the opportunity this morning to talk about one of my ultimate passions: writing. His Sunday-morning programming usually involves a segment called “Edumacate Me”, and my task was to “edumacate” his listeners on how to get published in magazines.
Freelance writing for magazines isn’t [...]

Influence is everywhere

TIME’s list of 100 Most Influential People in the World always, always inspires me to write. Reading about the people who make a difference in the world–and reading the words of the equally influential contributors who are hand-picked to write about the subjects–always makes me feel hopeful about where the world is heading. TIME’s editors [...]

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Social entrepreneurship: Making values effective “in the world as it is”
One leadership model that is fast gaining prominence among civil society and development groups all over the world is social entrepreneurship. James C. Toole, Ph.D., President of the Compass Institute and a Teaching/Research Fellow in the University of Minnesota School of Social [...]

First published in Starfish Magazine, Volume 2 Issue 2 (2007). Reposted in the blog Out of the Universe in 2008.

[Author’s Note: I first wrote this for Starfish Magazine in late 2006 (published in February 2007), before the mid-term elections. Reading this again, it seems to me that its theme rings even truer now–as we face [...]

“The word influence is derived from an ancient astrological term describing the power of the stars to affect the destiny of human beings. The definition has changed a bit over the centuries, but influence remains a mysterious force and a difficult one to measure. That’s part of the reason the TIME 100 list of the [...]

 

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