Liz Lipton-McCombie

Liz Lipton-McCombie, a great friend and fellow UC San Diego Alumni, recently spoke at Sustainable Business - The Event in Birmingham, UK. Liz is the Corporate Responsibility Manager at WHSmith and discusses how the organization uses sustainability and corporate responsibility practices to support their brand reputation and further enhance customer loyalty. She then details several success stories from WHSmith, highlighting the ways the team has chosen to support their employees, customers, and local communities through environmental management and employee recognition.

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Although we think a Facebook page is still a colossal waste of time, we do have to salute their recent move. As of midnight last night, Facebook users can now customize their profile address. The switch sounds like another way for Facebook to emulate networks such as Twitter and MySpace that already offer users customized URLs....but Facebook seems to have deeper pockets in mind.

Read more: Facebook Steps it Up - Personalized URLs Here We Come

Though I was born and raised in Southern California, I spent a few years in Portland at the beginning stages of my design career and fell in love with the amazing culture. I've since moved back to San Diego and I'm not complaining about the endless sunshine....but every now and then, video's like this one feel bittersweet.

Portland, we miss you but thanks for the inspiration and funky design flare. We hope you always 'Keep Portland Weird'.

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Uh oh, it looks like our favorite social networking site is experiencing some serious growing pains!! With users like @Oprah going from zero followers to a million in less than 28 days....twitter's explosive growth is not without its problems.

TechCrunch writes:

"Twitter just went through an awful 24-hour stretch. It included taking away a feature some people loved, probably being misleading about it, getting a huge amount of backlash, halfway bringing the feature back, and getting railed by the press for it all — with bouts of downtime mixed in for good measure."

Ah Gee Boy! Check out the full article via TechCrunch.com

Nothing gets the Design PLow crew more excited than a party with a bunch of nerds chatting Twitter. Check out the 'Scandalous Twitter Habits' video from Geek Entertainment TV up in San Fran.

Discussion topics include:

• Bathroom Tweets - Do you Twitter on the can?
• What is the 'unfollow' breaking point?

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Ok kids, I know I get excited about technology but this will blow you away!! Check out how the tech world is soon to bring all of us a "Sixth Sense". If you are a TED follower, you'll remember the iPhone touch screen we've grown to love came from a TED speaker two years ago. For only $350 to build, this will hit consumers soon enough and when it does, get ready to see the world change as we interact with our environment on a new level.

Controversial? Yes. Brilliant? Absolutely. But from a tech geek's eyes, it is simply amazing.

Read more: Holy Shiznat - This is UNREAL!