Rather, the period of relative financial calm that marked the persistence of the Bretton Woods accord (1947-1971) has been succeeded by a series of financial boom and bust cycles, the stock market in the 1980s, the dot.com boom in the 1990s and now the sub-prime/real estate bubble (Marglin & Schor, 1991, Wade, 2008). Intangibles are difficult to measure because, to a large extent, they are produced ‘outside’ the sorts of processes that existing accounting systems have been designed to measure (Vormbusch, 2008). The original article, Five ideas on value and the crisis , was a contribution by Adam Arvidsson to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications.

In July of 2008, as part of our ongoing research efforts with the Online Community Research Network , we conducted the first comprehensive study and gained valuable insight about online community and social media professional's compensation, team structure, and current job satisfaction. The All participants are entered in to a drawing for 1 of 10 $25 Starbucks coffee cards. ...Tags: Last year, Forum One recognized that one of the key issues community and social media professionals face is that we (as an industry) are suffering from a lack of solid benchmarks, including compensation of online community and social media professionals.

This site, launched in early 2008, has a simple community concept - you can submit an idea to Starbucks, comment on existing ideas or vote for them. Starbucks identified that they wanted to create a feeling that customers had input into and a say in the business; that anybody’s voice could be heard. But what makes this community really work is also simple - Starbucks actually listen to and respond to the comments For the second in our series of Online Community Examples , we move on to look at online communities in the retail industry. Online communities