Archive for March, 2009

Key note: Chris Anderson and Guy Kawasaki

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

If you were twitter, how would you make money?
How would I fix the new york times?
Free-mium: a free and a premium product that people will pay for. What about le monde? Whose gonna pay? Consumers or advertisers? Banner ads are old news Pay to be a recommend follow… that’s a neat idea. Don’t want to [...]

The future of visual storyteling is interactive - or is it?

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

CDX - weave video into game environment
Choose your own adventure style - it’s kind of an easter egg, you can kind of decide where it wants to go. ex: dove ad. People are engaging with it in very different ways. Older are seeing it as a video, younger are finding the interactivity and playing [...]

The Big Picture

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

If people want to see the big picture, why not just start with it?
Downfalls - tends to be repetitive, captions
Chain of trust - we’re gonna trust you, you you (photoshopped Iranian missiles). Now anything that comes from the Iranian news agency is automatically suspect. And bloggers *will* find it…
You bring your own judgments, context, experience [...]

The Big Picture

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

If people want to see the big picture, why not just start with it?
Downfalls - tends to be repetitive, captions
Chain of trust - we’re gonna trust you, you you (photoshopped Iranian missiles). Now anything that comes from the Iranian news agency is automatically suspect. And bloggers *will* find it…
You bring your own judgments, context, experience [...]

Ultimate Showdown of Content Management system destiny

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Build a website for us by a community leadership rogram
site should utilize a variety of web-based social networking and collaboration tools
site should be generalized as possible and be able to be downloaded for use by a wide variety of organizations and communities.
Base camp? twitterific? top sites?
No more than 100 hours, only freely available software can [...]

Visual Thinking

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Graphic recording - information streaming from some source (audatory). Ear –>Funnel –>Mirror. Resonates with something fundamentally human, need visual parts of our brain catered to.
what is visual thinking? Transforming verbal/text based information into visual display so people can engage it and understand it better.
Why it’s powerful:
1. cerebral cortex is responsible for awareness and consciousness and [...]

Blog on Company Time and Get Promoted

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

posterrous.com a blogging site that you email to - how cool! or utterz. Instant microblogging? With twitter you can do an RSS feed and all of your tweets could be publishing to a blog and the blog could be moderated.
Social bookmarking is made to share other people’s information - diigo.com (web highlighter like delicious).
Other useful [...]

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