What are the best practices to get your forums up and going?  That is the topic up for discussion this week on the Web Hosting Show.  I will give you some of my favorite suggestions for free forum scripts, and also will give you the tips you need to be a success.  Now get ready, because the... 

Our friend Dan Ariely, the behavioral economist, shared a pre-publication copy of his new book, The Upside of Irrationality. Reading it provoked a thought. Dan’s ingenious experiments focus on the relationships among incentives, motivations, and performance. One phenomenon he quantifies... 

In his inspiring and instructive book Rules of Thumb, my friend and Fast Company co-founder Alan Webber identifies two questions that demand the attention of leaders. The first is familiar: What keeps you up at night? What are the worries that nag at you? The second is less familiar, but perhaps... 

The term “bipartisan” seems to be having a renaissance these days, particularly in Washington. Unfortunately while everyone agrees that bipartisanship is a good thing, nobody seems to know how to do it. So despite all of the dialogue, forums, campaign promises, speeches, and political... 

Given all the problems our world faces — in teaching, technology, health care, or finance — we need many more social entrepreneurs and change makers. Progress against these problems will be intolerably slow if only 3% to 5% of world’s population thinks they can solve them. We... 

Many large-scale phenomena are the sum of individual actions — sometimes millions or even billions of them. Apple’s recent celebration of 10 billion songs downloaded represents 10 billion choices made by consumers to download a song rather than buy it in other formats. In the healthcare...