High-Tech Blocks Help Battle Brainstorming Slumps If sticky notes, whiteboards and yellow legal pads just aren't inspiring your team brainstorming sessions anymore, it's time to break out some toys. The folks at Smart Design's Smart Interaction Lab designed toy-like TOTEM blocks that can help teams improve idea-generating sessions, as explained in the video above. The creators presented these brainstorming tools at Barcelona's first Maker Faire. The three unique blocks — Batón, Echo and Alterego — all have different functions ina team meeting. The "Batón" is passed around like a talking stick, so whoever is holding it is allowed to speak. The "Echo" records background sounds and sound bytes and can play those back. The "Alterego" is meant to make the group think outside the comfort zone without biases. Fast Company notes TOTEM is still "an unproven concept." How does your team combat fruitless brainstorming sessions at your workplace? Image: Smart Interaction Lab [h/t Fast Company]
Mediapart Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Mediapart (à prononcer « à l'anglaise ») est un site web d'information et d'opinion créé en 2008 par François Bonnet, Gérard Desportes, Laurent Mauduit et Edwy Plenel[1]. Un abonnement payant est nécessaire pour lire les articles du site. L'équilibre financier aurait été atteint à l'automne 2010[2]. Mediapart héberge à la fois les articles rédigés par ses équipes propres (« le journal ») et ceux de ses utilisateurs (« le club »). Le site a joué un rôle clé dans la révélation de l'affaire Woerth-Bettencourt en 2010[3] et de l'affaire Cahuzac en 2012-2013[4]. Soutiens au projet de Mediapart en 2007[modifier | modifier le code] Mediapart a reçu pendant sa campagne d’abonnements initiale de nombreux soutiens[5] qui se sont manifestés par une série de vidéos publiées sur le pré-site. Caractéristiques[modifier | modifier le code] Le nom « Mediapart »[modifier | modifier le code] Projet économique et éditorial[modifier | modifier le code]
Yahoo! "Carry Heavy Attachments" New Delhi Bridge Billboard Ad Bitcoin – The Honey Badger of Money San Jose Billboard Ad 1.64K Views3 Likes Thanks to evoorhees and Gerndown, I found this on funny Honey Badger Bitcoin Bilboard ad on Reddit today and LOLed for about 20 minutes! If you're familiar with Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining the remix lyrics to the now... Premature Collaboration – San Jose Airport Billboard Ad 417 Views2 Likes I saw this interesting billboard ad from Kerio in the San Jose Airport recently that said "Premature Collaboration" and I had to do a double-take. 2013 Atlanta St. 439 Views1 Likes This commercial is interesting and a little freaky. Kitekat Cat Food Billboard Moscow Messiah Cat 283 Views2 Likes Paw-raise the lord! Artistic New Audrey Hepburn Galaxy Chocolate Commercial 8.36K Views49 Likes It's amazing to see how far we've come with CG (Computer Generated) photograph and film as you can see in this new Audrey Hepburn commercial for Galaxy Chocolate. Miele S8 Monster Suction Vacuum Cleaner Billboard Ad 823 Views4 Likes
Cost Per Like: A Subjective Valuation of Your Facebook Fans "Cost per Like" often crops up in conversations about Facebook advertising, though it isn't a term officially sanctioned by Facebook. So what exactly does it mean? Cost per Like refers to the cost of acquiring a new fan for a Facebook page, either through paid advertisements or, less directly, through earned media efforts. There are three ways to "buy" Likes on Facebook. Earlier this month, Facebook unveiled a new metric for evaluating advertising campaigns on Facebook, called "cost per action" (CPA). For now, advertisers can only select CPA ads through Facebook's Ads API. How to Determine the Value of a Fan It sure is nice to have a lot of Facebook fans. Recently, social media marketing agency Syncapse and research firm Hotspex conducted a study that attempted to assess the average value of a fan based on collective product spending, brand loyalty, propensity to recommend, media value, cost of acquisition and brand affinity. Not All Fans Are Created Equal
This Is The Best Ad Campaign In App History What better way for an anti-social app to get noticed than by insulting its target audience? London-based app design studio ustwo has just put up a pair of billboards in the hipster heartland of Shoreditch, East London, a stone’s throw from where its own studio is based, which brazenly proclaim: You have no friends and No one likes you. The billboards, which will be teasing Shoreditch’s hipsters for two weeks, are an experimental ad campaign for one of ustwo’s recent apps: random photo-sharing app Rando, which launched back in March on iOS. So what’s with the anti-social insults? Turning to a fixed-location, paper-based advertising medium may seem pretty old school but Silicon Valley has long had a bit of a thing with billboards. ustwo’s Matt Miller tells TechCrunch that’s certainly one reason he was keen to experiment with papering giant fliers atop one of Shoreditch’s busier junctions. “We originally came up with the straplines a few months back and mocked them up into billboards.
Boatbound Launches ‘Pier-To-Pier’ Boat Rental Marketplace Today Boatbound, the Airbnb for boats, launches its service to help boat owners offset the cost of ownership and let more people experience the joys of the water. With over $1 million in funding led by Benjamin Ling and 500 Startups, Boatbound’s listings website lets pre-screened captains rent fully insured vessels across the country ranging from basic motorboats to sailboats to yachts. Back in February, co-founder Aaron Hall gave us the first interview about Boatbound as it went into private beta. He explained how most boats sit unused for 95 percent of the year, making ownership incredibly expensive for the value it provides. That’s why boats have even more potential than homes for the sharing economy. The challenge is making those owners confident that their boats won’t be damaged, and if they are, they’ll be paid for in full. They’ve also been storming AngelList to fill out Boatbound’s $1 million+ early-stage funding round.
En Corée, les magasins flottent au-dessus des passants Des ballons volants facilitent l'accès au magasin en ligne E-mart en Corée du Sud. En Corée du Sud, de mystérieux ballons gonflés d’hélium se baladent dans les allées commerçantes ou dans les couloirs du métro. Sous leurs allures enfantines, ces ballons constituent un nouveau pan de la stratégie marketing de chox d’E-mart, le leader local de la grande distribution. Ces ballons offrent aux utilisateurs de smartphones une connexion gratuite à un réseau Wi-Fi. Une fois connectés, les mobinautes reçoivent des bons de réduction à valoir aux caisses des magasins E-mart ou sur l’application marchande mobile du supermarché. 50.000 nouveaux clients mobiles Dans un pays hyper-connecté comme la Corée du Sud, l’intérêt n’est pas d’offrir un accès mobile à Internet. E-mart répond ainsi à Homeplus (groupeTesco), son principal concurrent sur le marché local.
Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives of an unknown ‘amateur’ photographer for $380 at his local auction house. John began developing his new collection of photographs, some 100,000 negatives in total, that had been abandoned in a storage locker in Chicago before they ended up at the auction house. A self portrait: Before he could reach her, to John’s great dismay, he found her obituary notice in the Chicago Tribune in 2009. Now, the guy who bought that box of negatives at his local auction house has made a documentary film about the incredible discovery of a lost talent and the path to Finding Vivian Maier. The film will begin screenings in March 2014.