Positive Comms +Plus for the Week of 18 January 2016

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Interesting or inspiring articles (perhaps a bit of both) …

Each week, we share links to a few interesting or inspiring articles we’ve come across during the previous week. They’re meant to stir your thinking about marketing, communication and graphic design for positive change as well as conscious capitalism and the socially conscious movement.

For all you linguistic lovers out there, here’s an interesting article on the history of using “ou” in spelling versus just “o”. The rule is very top-of-mind when you’re working cross-border between Canada and the U.S., so this article caught our attention. It’s a quick read.

THE CASE OF THE MISSING “U”S IN AMERICAN ENGLISH VIA QZ.COM

The future of CSR may be at risk, at least in it’s current format. Here’s a good article on how and why a social enterprise business model may be the way of the future.

SPARKS FLY ON E STREET: RADICAL CHANGE IN THE FUTURE OF CSR VIA STANFORD SOCIAL INNOVATION REVIEW

Are you a creative type? Here’s why distractions may be your best friend and may be the reason you come up with your best ideas. A good distraction for a Monday…

GET DISTRACTED EASILY? that MIGHT be the reason YOU’RE MORE CREATIVE THAN THE REST OF US VIA CANVA,COM

The photo is the perfect display of distraction mixed with creativity. It’s from iStockphoto.com

K. Barker

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