Tarpipe is a publishing mediation and distribution platform that simplifies regular upload activities:
The above workflow allows me to take a photo with my mobile device and email the result to Tarpipes, which then publishes the photo, title and tags on Flickr, Evernote, del.icio.us and Twitter... simultaneously!
Similar to WorldMapper, this cool Flash-enabled tool allows you to selct a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject --both its share of the total and absolute value. [Thanks, Tim Zak]
The Good Sheet, which hits Starbucks (SBUX) counters each week leading up to the election, tackles one election topic per issue: energy, carbon emissions, health care, immigration, education, etc. Starbucks' goal is to get people talking about the issues that matter.
"We had been looking at ways to bring a little bit of those conversation-starters into the Starbucks environment," said Terry Davenport, the senior vice president for marketing at Starbucks. SOURCE
The long newsprint sheets fold down into a compact 5" x 5" square, but when unfurled they are packed with statistics and detail that illuminate the complexity within each topic.
The project brings together an innovative publication (100% of your subscription goes to a charity of your choice) and America's version of cafe culture (the proverbial "third place") in order to seed the conversations that will face the next US administration and congress.
View each GOOD sheet on-line at: http://good.is
The brain is an amazing thing. Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know.
Dr. John Medina is a developmental molecular biologist and research consultant. He is an affiliate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is also the director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University.
Medina's Brain Rules book, DVD and on-line tutorials make the complexity of our individually wired brains both understandable and fun. Lots of content also available on YouTube--including the location of the elusive Jennifer Aniston neuron!
from Fast Company article by Gregory Berns:
The brain is fundamentally a lazy piece of meat. It doesn't want to waste energy. That's why there is a striking lack of imagination in most people's visualization of a beach sunset. It's an iconic image, so your brain simply takes the path of least resistance and reactivates neurons that have been optimized to process this sort of scene. If you imagine something that you have never actually seen, like a Pluto sunset, the possibilities for creative thinking become much greater because the brain can no longer rely on connections shaped by past experience." READ FULL ARTICLE >>
This Fall 2008 Deidre Crowley will offer two courses in Graphic Facilitation with focuses on using visual language in recording facilitated events.
Continue reading "MAFN Facilitation University course in Graphic Facilitation" »
Watch a three-minute movie of the TED2008 BIGVIZ sketches, created by Autodesk animator and compositor Keith Chamberlain, with music scored by TEDster Michael Montes.
The images created by Kevin Richards and David Sibbet during the TED2008 are set to music and animated using gorgeous complexity modeling. The hundreds of individual sketches are transformed into rivers of data, DNA strands, and galaxies of ideas.
Watch a behind-the-scenes view with Sibbet that illuminates the integration of hand-rendered art, Wacom tablets, and the multi-touch wall. Unbelievable, really.
You can download the TED2008-BigViz Book and see more here.
What?! A technology company that hires thousands of engineers used a comic book to explain their new web browser? (No one told me that software engineers liked comic books!) Google Chrome is Google's browser project; this comic book by Google, drawn by comic guru Scott McCloud, is scanned here and shown under its Creative Commons license. I have been test-driving Chrome since it's launch and love it--with the exception that all my Firefox plug-ins haven't yet made the leap, but give'em time.
We live in two worlds – the world we have lived in and the emerging world.
Adapting to the differences between these worlds enables us to accommodate to the rapid level of change that is occurring in business. It will also allow us to play an active part in that change. Emerging, is an increasingly interdependent and collaborative world. In fact collaboration plays a central role in the management of change.
Greater levels of collaboration require Collaborative Leadership.
The alternative is not pretty – we are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor. Collaborative leadership is the application of a few basic principles. By embracing these principles we can harness the energy and attention of the people around us.
The core principles of Collaborative Leadership are: Presence, Purpose and Path.
Continue reading "Collaborative Leadership: The All-Terrain Skill" »
EXERCISE | Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power.
SURVIVAL | Rule #2: The human brain evolved, too.
WIRING | Rule #3: Every brain is wired differently.
ATTENTION | Rule #4: We don't pay attention to boring things.
SHORT-TERM MEMORY | Rule #5: Repeat to remember.
LONG-TERM MEMORY | Rule #6: Remember to repeat.
SLEEP | Rule #7: Sleep well, think well.
STRESS | Rule #8: Stressed brains don't learn the same way.
SENSORY INTEGRATION | Rule #9: Stimulate more of the senses.
VISION | Rule #10: Vision trumps all other senses.
GENDER | Rule #11: Male and female brains are different.
EXPLORATION | Rule #12: We are powerful and natural explorers.
