There is nothing social about a mutual fund website. You have never had the ability to share your thoughts by commenting on an article, posting on a discussion boards or adding to editable wiki page. That is because the government oversight agency, FINRA, has such harsh penalties for marketing or promotion on a fund site [...]
According to Mashable, in the moments following Tim Tebow’s incredible 80-yard bomb that broke the back of Steeler nation and continued his miraculous season, people sent 9,420 Tweets per second. This was the second-highest tweets per second surpassing the moment the world saw Beyonce’s baby bump at the MTV VMAs last year. What’s it all [...]
This year SXSW really came through with some great panels, which sent me home energized and focused, ready to affect change and be a better design. The short list There probably were some really dreadful panels this year too; I just did a good job of sniffing them out so that near everything I saw [...]
“I thought we were in a recession?” I heard as we took our free tee-shirts from the Gowalla Airstream and rounded the corner towards the Pepsi Playland and the new CNN Grill. Yeah, this is not the Austin I remember. This was my fourth SXSW Interactive conference in the past five year, but having missed [...]
I am gitty about going back to SXSW Interactive Festival tomorrow. This conference is a great opportunity to learn about current design thinking and trends and engage with other passionate designers and developers from all over the country. But for me, there’s something more. This is like my professional pilgrimage. By returning to Austin each [...]
This is my first panel submission for SXSW Interactive, and I’d like to quickly sate why I think you should vote for it. Rock Web Form Design like an 80s Hair Band Have you ever listened to some music while your working and found the symphony of ideas. You were just thinking that there were [...]
As I finished reading The Innovators Dilemma, by Clayton M. Christensen, and I was charged up. I became aware of a successful path on integrating innovation into a large company, and I realized with new clarity how close my company had come in our own efforts, and where we misstepped. Some of the main takeaways [...]
See, if it wasnt for Flickr, I would never have known that our President takes meetings with pirates. I would support the initiative to have more transparency in government anyway, but I love how this new administration is using social media to provide these views inside the Oval Office. On Flickr they are literally providing [...]
Having read David Allen’s Getting Things Done and Making It All Work, having the Mastering Workflow diagram up in my cube, having a clean inbox and an active to-do list, I thought I would be closer to the upper-right Captain and Commander area. But apparently I am still too quick to respond to urgent (in contrast [...]
