Our friends at idealist, famous for their non-for-profit job board, are helping the job market by making it easier for organizations to post jobs on their website.  They are waving the $60 fee to post jobs for the entire month of june for free. Yes, it’s already june.  Check out this video highlighting some of successes that other organizations have had. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BQYIPILUU[/youtube]

We’re showing our pink pride this week after news broke that Deutsch Telekom, the parent company of T-mobile, lost one of their court battles in the war to control all things Magenta.

They’ve been slapping around little guys for a while and this time the lowly offender was Telia, a rival European wireless carrier. Fortunately, the Danish court judging the case ruled in favor of Telia citing that

Recently I was asked by Christopher Bateman of Vanity Fair to give some perspective on how the current political candidates are using the web to build grassroots support for their campaigns. You can see the article here. One of the things that I noticed from VF, was that we included Obama, Hillary, and McCain, but the article link is ( …/obama-vs-mccain.html ).

thehappycorp spends a lot of time thinking about things.  One of the things we think about most is how brands communicate to people. Recently I have bumped into a couple interesting brand tools.  One is called Brand Tags, it explores the relationship with brand logos and a consumers one word response to the logo.  Another one of our friends sent us this link from Dear Jane Sample.  It discusses which

Behance is in the thick of it, surveying New York creative leaders for a better idea of how they keep their talent happy and focused. How to fight off the possibility of wasting individual talents within the agency model, how to delete the possibility of compromising personal goals in favor of company objectives. This is how they talk about it, not us. We call it being happy.

IRREGARDLESS, when they

Article by Rick Poynor on the Creative Review blog on how we should be getting more substance and less spiel from the current pandemic of design conferences.
For anyone who loves going to design conferences, we live in remarkable times (writes RICK POYNOR). There are dozens, if not hundreds, of them. A design conference always seems to be just starting or finishing somewhere in the world. It would

We Heart It lets you heart-mark images of goodness on the web and upload them effortlessly with your bookmarks toolbar to We Heart It.

Reminds us of NOTCOT, but WHI has more of a social component, letting users add their own tags and upload profile pics.

Plus these guys like magenta. Anyone with a fondness for that enlightened color gets on our good side real quick.