USTREAM, You're On. Free LIVE VIDEO Streaming, Online Broadcasts. Create webcasts, video chat, stream videos on the Internet. Live streaming videos, TV shows. IDEO's Diego Rodriguez on innovation in the real world TNW. On Thursday, at the Behance Network‘s 3rd annual 99% Conference in New York City, 380 advertising, design and related creative professionals and enthusiasts gathered for the first of 2 days of quality speakers and potential industry connections. The afternoon sessions broke out into “master classes,” one of which, titled “Innovating in the Real World: Using Design-Thinking To Create Positive Change” featured Diego Rodriguez, a partner at IDEO and a founding professor at the d.school at Stanford. Leading IDEO’s Bay Area offices, Rodriguez works with clients on new ventures, organizational design and marketing strategies.
In 2010 Rodriguez was named by Fortune as one of “The Smartest People in Tech”. “I am obsessed with this idea of awesomeness,” Rodriguez began, “But over the past couple of years, I started worrying that I didn’t have a set of principles or a way of looking at the world that was consistent.” He asked, “Why are some people doing it better than others?
On Being an Innovator. 38 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed. Mashable has finally returned from Disney World (also known as the happiest place on earth) with the conclusion of Connect. Since returning, we've have no time to slump, turning out another great week of tools and resources for your social media pleasure. Read on for some great stories about how to use Gmail Labs to boost your productivity, 13 alternative ways to get your news online, and a ton of resource roundups for developers, designers, and small businesses alike. Looking for even more social media resources? This guide appears every weekend, and you can check out all the lists-gone-by here any time. Editors' Picks How 5 Non-Profits Are Innovating With MobileNon-profits large and small are using mobile to educate, activate and engage their audiences.
Social Media. Twitter and the collective storytelling. Along with Google and Facebook, Twitter has been an icon of the new Web. To learn from its success, in this post I take a look at the relationship between Twitter and the collective storytelling. As we know, an essential character of Web 2.0 is the embodiment of collectivism on the Web. Besides the often-mentioned collective intelligence, however, there are many other types of the embodiment of collectivism.
One of them is collective storytelling---a particular joint between collective intelligence and collective behavior. As its name tells, storytelling is the combination of "story" and "telling". Apply it to the associative law, the collective storytelling is therefore the combination of the collective story and the collective telling. The collective story is a particular form of the collective intelligence. According to Frank Rose, we tell stories so that we may make sense of our world and share the understanding with others. The first bright spot is the 140-character length limit. Unlocking the power of HTML5 <audio> - IEBlog. Sounds form the background of our life. Today the HTML5 <audio> element enables Web developers to embed sounds in their applications. The flexibility of the control coupled with the integration with the rest of the platform allows several scenarios, from simple sound effects to background audio to gaming experiences to more sophisticated audio engines.
This blog post walks through some of the best practices for using the <audio> tag in your Web applications, and includes useful tips from real-world sites. Adding an audio element to your page The very first step is to add the audio element to your page. You can do this by declaring an <audio> tag in your markup, by instantiating a new audio element in the JavaScript code, or by embedding the audio stream in the page: Run live demo var audio = document.createElement("audio"); if (audio !
Audio.src = "audio/sample.mp3"; audio.play(); Run live demo Run live demo The first approach allows you to initialize the audio components during the page load. David Lynch on iPhone. The Energy Risk Conspiracy. Him, Her and Them on Facebook. The Interface is the Message: Aaron Koblin at TED. The Best Sites For Collaborative Storytelling | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... For the purposes of post, I’m defining collaborative storytelling as a process where one person begins telling a story, and then various others continue and complete it. can be a great in-class exercise just doing it an overhead or whiteboard, and it can be a lot of fun doing it online, too.
A simple way do it online is, while students are doing another project their computers in the computer lab, just keep one computer open where student can take turns writing portions of the story. You can see various tools my students have used do just that, along with a couple of stories they wrote including illustrations.
One of the stories ends with me getting eaten by a tiger (unfortunately, most of those stories are no longer available). There are quite a few online tools that a designed make kind of collaborative storytelling much easier do. Here are my choices for The Best Sites For Collaborative Storytelling: Folding Story is a new site, which does not have private groups now. Related In "web 2.0" Blogging Innovation » The Power of Storytelling. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore remains one of the best sources of information on how to market and sell “disruptive products to mainstream customers.”
Despite being first published almost twenty years ago, the book remains on the recommended reading list for most entrepreneurs today. One of the best chapters of the book centers around targeting the point of attack and one of tools that Moore uses to prepare for this is to create what he calls ‘Sample Scenarios’. These target-customer scenarios are used in the decision-making process to help identify the target customer. In the simplest terms, these scenarios focus on a before and after ‘day in the life of a customer’ and how the new product solves a given problem. Moore proposes that the results of these scenarios (quantitative information based on a number of a different factors) be used to determine the best target market segment to pursue.
A Day in the Life (Before) Attempted approach: Economic consequences: Flight is canceled. Effective storytelling, a countermeasure against complexity. Reinforce Learning Through Storytelling. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin Trainers bring a full tool box to reinforce content: small group work, role plays and a myriad of experiential learning techniques.
It’s really hard to monitor a role play across the range of formats for delivering training today. In any format the best trainers connect the audience to the topic by sharing great stories. Your Own Reality Concepts spring to life when a presenter describes an employee they successfully coached or a complex problem solved. Not every topic is represented in my range of work. It’s in the News Business news, and often headlines of the day, are great sources of real world examples. There’s no need to focus only on the negative. Government Sources Government agencies report results of investigations, settlements and claims in easy to access formats.
Call a Lifeline Colleagues and networking can be the next source for stories. > More on e-learning on the Mindflash blog. The Wilderness Downtown. Gamification is everywhere [slides] « David Merzel's Blog. Infographic: A Look At The Size And Shape Of The Geosocial Universe In 2011. Thanks to Jesse Thomas of interactive design agency JESS3, we now have an updated look at the structure of the geosocial universe as it exists in anno domini 2011.
It wasn’t so long ago that the International Astronomical Union booted Pluto out of the solar system or that MySpace was overtaking Yahoo! And Google as the most-visited site in the U.S. Well, a few rotations around the sun later, and the overall shape of the geosocial universe has changed dramatically. New stars have been born and others have been scattered out across the cold recesses of Internet space. Today, Myspace is sputtering, Skype is part of the Microsoft solar system, and LinkedIn is being traded publicly.
As you’ll see, Thomas’ infographic shows the current size of major social networks as well as the other well-known online services we use on a daily basis relative to their peers. Some other notable trends in the geosocial universe, courtesy of JESS3: