Huggable People 10: Geoff Livingston Raising Awareness for World Food Day & a Marketer with the Heart of a Dad

Geoff Livingston Head ShotGeoff Livingston is our latest Huggable Person. From his bio: “He is an author, public speaker and marketing strategist who has dedicated his career to helping mindful companies and nonprofits achieve social change.” He’s also a husband, a dad and an all around good guy. I sat in on a talk of his at my first social media event in PodCamp Philly 2007, and he made a great impression then. He knows his stuff, and communicates it with ease. I heard him speak this fall at #PodCampEast and he’s still a dynamic speaker with a new book out, Marketing In the Round (co-authored with Gini Dietrich*), and new social change projects up his sleeve including Hunger to Hope this Tuesday, October 16, 2012.

Kathy Korman Frey and the Hot Mommas Project Helps Women & Girls Grow and Rock

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Kathy Korman Frey, founder of the Hot Momma’s Project has created an award-winning process using a dynamic online site and in-person events to create a global leadership movement – linking strong women, and their stories, to mentor Generation Y and X women and girls. The results? Measurable increases in confidence and key success factors of [...]

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HuggablePeople #8: Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends Helps Entrepreneurs Learn and Connect

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Anita Campbell, CEO and Publisher of SmallBizTrends.com, makes our huggable people list because she loves entrepreneurs and everything I have seen her do supports small business owners, usually in both a useful and creative way. Whether it is launching her Small Business Book Awards four years ago (the 2012 awards garnered 55,000 votes) to ensure [...]

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Huggable People # 7 Frank Warren: Post Secrets Changing Lives

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Frank Warren had an interesting, off-the-wall idea in 2004…he handed out a few pre-addressed postcards asking people to mail him a secret that was true and had never been spoken before. Called the PostSecret Project*, the site he built to share those secrets has turned into the largest advertisement-free Blog in the world: PostSecret.com, and a [...]

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Huggable Stuff To Get You Through the Week

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If you’re looking for a brief break from your workload or your day (wherever that day might be taking you) and need a smile, try this week’s Huggable Stuff. I’ll be willing to bet that you can’t check out these sites, or take one of these actions, without cracking a smile, or laughing a bit [...]

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