Experience Freedom
February 20, 2012 | Topics: Adventure, Photography
Inventing on Principle
February 15, 2012 | Topics: Innovation, Learning
Bret Victor invents tools that enable people to understand and create. He has designed experimental UI concepts at Apple, interactive data graphics for Al Gore, and musical instruments at Alesis.
Nancy Duarte on great talks
February 6, 2012 | Topics: Innovation, Photography, Views
From the “I have a dream” speech to Steve Jobs’ iPhone launch, all great presentations have a common architecture.
Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks | Video on TED.com.
sOccket – kinetic energy soccer ball
February 1, 2012 | Topics: Innovation
The sOccket harnesses the kinetic (motion) energy of the soccer ball during normal game play and stores it for later power needs. After play, small electrical appliances, like an LED lamp, can be plugged into the sOccket.
Find out more at www.soccket.com
Content Marketing – The High Octane Fuel For Your Marketing
January 26, 2012 | Topics: Marketing
Content is the fuel of social media, it drives engagement, produces shares and invites your audience to participate with comments and contributions. It is though one of the hardest things to get right and often involves a degree of experimentation.You can though rapidly improve your content. If you think of content generation as working in 3 parts:
The Idea stage – this is where you are coming up with great ideas for your blog
The Production stage – this is where you craft the words and pull together the structure of your blog, article, copy…. and
Finishing touches – rounding off the look and feel of your content and double checking it looks good
via Content Marketing – The High Octane Fuel For Your Marketing | TribalCafe.
Every day, we use materials from the earth without thinking, for free. But what if we had to pay for their true value: would it make us more careful about what we use and what we waste? Think of Pavan Sukhdev as nature’s banker — assessing the value of the Earth’s assets.
via Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature! | Video on TED.com.
David Attenborough – Wonderful World
December 13, 2011 | Topics: Green, Photography, Views
Eric Ries Interview about The Lean Startup
December 12, 2011 | Topics: Business, Innovation, Investing
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries explains How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Eric is the co-founder of IMVU, the world’s largest 3d chat community, but it wasn’t always this way.
Learning from his own mistakes chronicled in his blog, his team formulated a methodology that is changing the world of startups. Eric makes statements like “failure is preventable”, “don’t launch” and urges entrepreneurs to stop using “vanity metrics” and get a handle on your “innovation accounting” and understand the process of “validated learning”.
Eric Ries of The Lean Startup w/ Matt Wilson @Under30CEO from Under30CEO on Vimeo.
via How and Why The Lean Startup is Becoming the Standard for Hockey Stick Growth : Under30CEO.
Information Diet
December 8, 2011 | Topics: Learning
The Information Diet – A Case for Conscious Consumption from Clay Johnson on Vimeo.
Healthy information consumption habits are about more than productivity and efficiency. They’re about your personal health, and the health of society. Just as junk food can lead to obesity, junk information can lead to new forms of ignorance. The Information Diet provides a framework for consuming information in a healthy way, by showing you what to look for, what to avoid, and how to be selective. In the process, author Clay Johnson explains the role information has played throughout history, and why following his prescribed diet is essential in today’s information age.
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