Keeping on the theme of it being a new year, I’ve decided to join hundreds of other writers in a 31 day writing challenge. This is my first entry, and as I think about what I hope to get out of this stretching exercise, I can’t help but think about my 2013 stretching exercise (now…
Category: Innovation
Lessons on vision & innovation from Apple
Does your company or organization have this sort of vision? Can your organization innovate this far into the future?
Kindle competitor debuts!
Now this is cool! You can watch a video over at Fortune by clicking here. Plastic Logic launches handheld document reader at DEMO Fall 2008 conference. Paper-sized and thin, the device is geared towards business customers. The Kindle is great, but the Plastic Logic document reader has a larger screen and its thinner. Crisp images…
I Am Knowledge Worker 2.0
Everytime I go into SlideShare.net, I enjoy exploring the latest presentations. There is a wealth of knowledge and information in there from top minds. Here is one I found today from Stephen Collins, a knowledge economy and knowledge work consultant, web strategist, information architect and social computing evangelist. My presentation from the Office 2.0 Conference….
Innovation Exercise: Tagged Financial Management
I was using Flickr the other day to upload and organize some pictures I took over the 4th of July weekend, and it got me thinking about how banks and credit card companies should be using tagging, and effective use of Ajax, to super-power their standard web-based service applications. So, that got me thinking about…
Closer look at alternate-reality games
Earlier, I wrote about a mystery movie trailer I saw before the Transformers movie. It turns out it may be a part of a complex game-based buzz-marketing technique called Alternative Reality Games. The trailer reveals it’s for a 2008 Paramount film from wunderkind producer J.J. Abrams (“Felicity,” “Alias,” “Lost”), and virtually no other details, so…
Spider-Man’s Promo on Google Earth
Here is another innovative way to promote a product. Very creative to say the least, and considering its “geek” factor, probably very well targeted. In keeping with the vastness of the “Spider-Man 3” franchise, Sony worked with Google Earth to bring the superhero’s Manhattan world to fans around the globe with a “Spider-Man 3” layer…
Refreshingly new way to engage people with political advertising
This is fascinating! I can see the power of this technique in advertising. Can you imagine a manufacturer doing this with a popular product, and asking their product users to post replies? TechPresident contributor Steve Garfield writes about it here. John Edwards sent out an email yesterday promoting an “emergency” ad protesting President Bush’s veto…
Non-Profit Guerilla Advertising that will Blow Your Mind
The headline says it all. I particularly liked the Amnesty International campaign pictured below. This signs says: ‘More than 4000 condemned until death are waiting for their execution. No to Capital punishment’. In case you can’t tell, the guy is sitting in an electric chair. hands say “wrong opinion. This last one is part of…
Getting the job done
Over the weekend, I was doing some research on Gore & Associates, a Delaware company. I came across a quote by a Gore associate included in the second book edition of The 100 Best Companies to Work For in America: “Why go to someone with a title when you can go to someone with an…
WSJ: Political Candidates, Fund Raising, Blogs & The Web
Update: The Washington Post has an article on Widgets I missed. Thanks to Rob for pointing out. Rob points out one good example. While this may technically not qualify as a widget, I did want to call attention to a great new tool courtesy of Justin Hart at My Man Mitt. It allows Romney fans…
The importance of a Chief Digital Officer & the outsourcing option
Jacob, a blogger at Silas Notes and staff member at Silas Partners highlights a blog post that “discusses the need for a Chief Digital Officer, someone who is concerned with all the digital communication of your organization.” These are considerable responsibilities. It’s a bigger job than “webmaster.†It requires both broad vision and technical insight….