http://www.kellerblog.com Entrepreneurship and Business Management Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:30:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A good friend once told me that happiness was as much in taking as it is in giving. This may appear to be a simple justification for looking forward to birthday or holiday gifts. But what I’m really interested in is sustainability. I’ve been exploring more about ... http://www.kellerblog.com/youve-got-to-take-a-little-to-give/ A friend of mine at Catalyst Humanitarian sent me an email today to let me know a google search of Utah Social Entrepreneuship brings up John Keller as one of the top results on Google. Fun novelty aside, (thanks naymz.com) it does help to illustrate the how ... http://www.kellerblog.com/utah-social-entrepreneuship/ I spent the weekend in L.A. working to develop relationships with USC, UCLA and a number of non-academic book related publishers and programs. Although I’ve been to L.A. a number of times, this is the first time that I had the chance to spend time with the L.A. local ... http://www.kellerblog.com/la-walk-about/ Tuesday, May 27. Salt Lake City, Utah. Business casual and shiny cars drive cautiously to the shelter. The sign says, “Honk for Donations.” In succession the cars drive through the ominous gate. I’ve grown up in Salt Lake. But this area of town is unfamiliar. ... http://www.kellerblog.com/the-road-home-a-service-project-worth-remembering/ I have spent the last three years of my life working in the growing segment of businesses known as triple-bottom-line companies or social ventures. According to the Skoll Foundation (http://www.skollfoundation.org –a foundation based on the principles that strategic investments can lead to lasting social change) a social entrepreneur is: ... http://www.kellerblog.com/triple-bottom-line/ I had a great opportunity today to attend a “business ignitor” event hosted by Grow Utah Ventures. I have been so busy working in the trenches lately that I began to feel out of touch with the rich entrepreneur community here in Utah. The topic was “How ... http://www.kellerblog.com/business-ignitor-for-grow-utah-ventures-a-great-event/ I have rarely, if ever expressed personal sentiments in this blog. I generally reserve those for my private journal and close family and friends. I will deviate today however, in honor of significant event that hit very close to home this past week. Amid the blur of ... http://www.kellerblog.com/what-can-you-take-reflections-of-the-life-of-gordon-b-hinckley/ I just want to take a minute to congratulate Worldwide Book Drive and it’s faithful team of book sorters and back-brakers for donating over 100,000 books this year alone! Their contributions will certainly have an impact on generations of children in Utah, Nicaragua, Idaho and Africa for generations to ... http://www.kellerblog.com/congratulations-to-worldwide-book-drive/ Over the past week I’ve spent a lot of time looking for good blogs that have search engine friendly comments enabled… I’m proud to say that Kellerblog is a very search engine friendly blog. Complete with disabled no follow tags and an open invitation to comment on anything that you can ... http://www.kellerblog.com/do-follow-links-from-kellerblog/ For a long time online dating has been one of the fastest growing segments on the internet. The relationship of Large Online Dating Companies and profitability has taken a sharp turn. Although market adoption has still been growing at substantial leaps, the number of new companies entering the ... http://www.kellerblog.com/online-dating-rapid-penetration-dilluting-the-market/