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Bloglumn: Big
Lets stop those big words and do some big things.
Big weeks for Bill Gates. Besides launching a new search engine, presenting an European research plan, and donating USD 750m to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, the Microsoft chairman warned the leaders of rich countries at the World Economic Forum they are carrying the hopes of a generation with promises to end poverty in Africa. 
And he's not the only celebrity who tries to make big noise about more global fairness. "Power to the People" movements give consumers an opportunity to use their purchasing power to tilt the balance, however slightly, in favour of the poor. 
According to the annual Harvard Business Review survey of emerging management ideas, (one of) the big word(s) for 2005 is "Blogonomics": a business model in which blogs play an important role for innovative corporate sales, marketing and advertising strategies. Positive (blogging) people can change the world. Optimists don't believe humans evolved to be so bad at making decisions. Their bet is that smart people will embrace being talked to with respect and will spread the word. You can write a manifesto, an argument, a reasoned, rational call to action, supported by logic and facts, which will be published on a blog. You can Change This. 
So, we actually can do some big changing things now. We all can change the world, because we are - in Bob Geldof's words - the world. But more important: "It's time for justice." - Nelson Mandela, Trafalgar Square, London, February 3, 2005. 
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posted by BlogFonk: Friday, February 04, 2005 [#] Erms Suripatty