About: Doug

If you’ve ever launched a business, you know what it means to start from nothing. We launched Moxy Vote with exactly zero users, and the first twenty people who signed up, bless their hearts, were employees, friends, and family. And then they started reporting bugs.

A few short hours ago, we got our 100,000th user. Six digits, baby.

Yay!

Now, we work on our second comma.

I have a dog. I got him two years ago to provide me company, and he’s become my most reliable friend. Winter is coming, and we’re going to spend many evenings next to the fire; he on his cushion, I on my chair. And this will be good.

I live in the country, and my dog spends his afternoons roaming the neighborhood. He visits an elderly neighbor’s house and digs up her gardens. He rips laundry from her lines and drags it through the mud. He torments her cat. Lately, he’s been barking loudly at her window. I’ve never met my neighbor, and I never will. No one else will ever know about my dog’s activities — just me and my neighbor, and she’ll never say a word. Read more

Happy Friday! We’re trying to figure out who exactly you people are. Help us out with some answers, please.
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Protestors are Occupying Wall Street with many beefs about the current system. Working outside the system, which many of the protestors believe to be rigged against them, and armed mainly with tents and sit-ins, they’ve successfully nudged the national discourse in the last weeks.

However, there are two tools they can use  to achieve their means from within: Read more

Here’s something intriguing. Check out what these Cisco shareholders, led by Domini Social Investments, put on the ballot at their company:

Cisco sells its products, including Internet and surveillance technology, primarily through resellers, to government agencies and state-owned entities throughout the world. The U.S. State Department has documented how various governments, including several with which our Company does business, monitor, censor and jail Internet users, through manipulation of Internet technology.

So, what do these shareholders want? Read more

The Occupy Wall Street protests are growing and spreading. We see frustration over corporate behavior and resentment over the collusion between industry and government. We see people trying to express themselves to corporations, and so far, they’ve done this with protest signs, tents, and sites like Facebook and Twitter.

If you know us, or have seen our quirky video, you know this is our bailiwick. Our breadbox. This is what we do.  We don’t have opinions on what you should say to corporate America, but we’ll let anyone borrow our bullhorn.

The latest polls suggest that the theme of the protests is generally supported in the US, but we want to know what you think about Occupy Wall Street. Take the quick poll and leave a comment below. Read more

“Every CEO tells the same great white lie. It is at the heart of every communication. It is at the heart of every financial decision. It is, at it’s very base, the reason why you all are in the 99pct and they are in the 1pct. The Lie ?

Great CEO White Lie = ‘We are acting in the best interests of shareholders.’”

In a recent post on his blog, Mark Cuban opines on the relationships among companies, their shareholders, and the public. If you’re familiar with the man who Wikipedia currently describes as “an American business magnate and investor… the owner of the National Basketball Association’s Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of the HDTVcable network HDNet,” you know you’re in for a provocative read. Read more

In today’s world of short media cycles and even shorter attention spans, it’s easy to forget yesterday’s big deal. So, I thought it would be a fun Friday exercise to circle back with an update on a very big deal from seventeen months ago: the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the gulf.

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I just learned that Monday is a federal holiday? Feels good, man.

Uplifting the human spirit and society? Heck yeah, that’s our kind of thing.

We’re as honored and bubbly as Sally Field to say that our humble Moxy Vote animation has received an EthicMark Award which recognizes “outstanding marketing, advertising, and public relations campaigns and communications designed to uplift the human spirit and society.”

This award was given yesterday at SRI in the Rockies after thirty international judges chose winners and honorable mentions in the for-profit and not-for-profit categories. We got an honorable mention in the for-profit category, with the following entry:

We’re in really good company here. Here are the winners:

• Liberty Mutual. Responsibility: Doing the Right Thing.
• The Nike Foundation. The Girl Effect: the Clock is Ticking.

See the honorable mentions here.

Thank you to the sponsors of the EthicMark Award: Ethical Markets, The Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, and World Business Academy. Thanks to SRI in the Rockies for hosting an inspired event in New Orleans this week — you guys serve a mean beignet, and we’d like you to begin regular deliveries to the Moxy Vote offices. Starting now. Thank you to our parents and our spouses, without whom none of this would have been possible. Our readers and users. Their parents and spouses. We’re grateful to the shareholders, markets, regulators, companies, advocates and activists who keep us coming back to work each day even when it’s rainy and cold and the roads are unsafe but that’s ok because telecommuting is an acceptable option, occasionally.

And of course, mad props to agit-pop. You know… the guys who actually made this thing. Andrew and Andy, give each other a beer for us.