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Are We In The Post Social Media Era?

itmatters@common.is (Mark Eckhardt) — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 20:09:00 GMT

Are we in the post social media era? COMMON's CEO, Mark Eckhardt, shares a few thoughts on the subject and what you can do to connect meaningfully with the people who matter most to your business. Click the button below to listen to the audio clip.

Entrepreneurs for a Bold New World | Common.is

Common.is — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 10:00:00 GMT

It’s the end of the world as we know it. With a pandemic still raging across much of the world and months of protests against police brutality and racial injustice in the US and abroad, returning to business as usual isn’t even an option in our post-pandemic future — business as usual is a thing of the past.

Do Consumers Really Care? | Common.is

Common.is — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:36:00 GMT

20 Social Entrepreneurs To Watch In 2020 | Common.is

Common.is — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:52:00 GMT

COMMON Members Who Are Changing Capitalism (and the world) For Good.

As we enter a new year — and a new decade — we’ve been reflecting on the movement that is redefining capitalism. While we seem to be hurtling towards ecological disaster, faced with humanitarian crises at home and abroad as well as instability in long-standing institutions, we see hope for the future in these entrepreneurs. They’re stepping up, kicking ass and taking names in their respective sectors, rewriting the rules of business in fields as diverse as filmmaking to software and app development to nonprofits.

A $58 Billion COMMON Insurgency | Common.is

Common.is — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 06:17:00 GMT

By Mark Eckhardt, CEO of COMMON

Since New Year’s, I’ve been working on a note that captures everything we accomplished together in the last decade. This must be my fiftieth attempt, and my trash can runneth over.

15 Podcasts Social Entrepreneurs Need in Their Ears : Common.is

Common.is — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 03:48:00 GMT

At the end of last year, the Public Relations and Communications Association predicted 2019 would be the Year of the Podcast, and boy does it look like they were right.

COMMON_Report_6 Essentials_Download | Common.is

Common.is — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 07:48:00 GMT

The 3rd Third: A Brand For Social Entrepreneurs | Common.is

Common.is — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 06:01:00 GMT

By Alex Diaz. Edited by Julia Dopp and Meaghan Pachay.

Have you seen—I mean really seen—the video on the front page of COMMON’s website? In it, co-founder Alex Bogusky explains our vision for social entrepreneurship and the original design of COMMON as composed of three parts: one third community, one third business incubator, and one third collaborative brand.

Social Entrepreneurs Need To Compete—Fiercely. | Common.is

Common.is — Wed, 29 May 2019 05:15:00 GMT

Why competition might just be the thing your organization and the world needs. By Mark Eckhardt, CEO of COMMON. Edited by Meaghan Pachay

Several years ago, I declared in a meeting that “the point of social enterprise is to replace bad products on store shelves with good ones.”

Music, Satire, and Selling Out | Common.is

Common.is — Mon, 13 May 2019 10:35:00 GMT

By Shaw Lathrop Edited by Julia Dopp.

I’ve been a musician since I was 16 years old. When I was 24, I moved to LA to pursue music full-time, which I did for several years. When I look back now, I see the songs I was writing as pretty vapid. I was a kid, trying to write love songs, you know? And in the decades that have come since, I got a real dose of life experience. Now that I’m writing music again, I’ve been able to draw from those experiences; from being homeless and being broke, and also from doing well, spending the last 5 years working at a startup accelerator. I live in Boulder, CO, and I spend my days surrounded by casual millionaires. I’ve been on both sides of the income gap, and I see how there are common threads, but I also see just how easy it is when we don’t know people to assume our problems are so much larger than theirs.