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Building a Better Conference Badge I just got back from the Economics of Social Media conference put on by Rafat Ali, Staci Kramer, and the rest of the PaidContent crew and it was really an excellent event. One-day conferences are great because there’s no filler. There’s no scrambling to populate 50 panels with people who may or may not be the best choices to speak. There’s also no deciding which of 6 rooms you want to be in every hour. One track. For Rafat’s first conference, they really knocked it out of the park. The only awful thing about EconSM though — as is the case with most conferences — was the design of the conference badges. “You know what super-complicated innovation would double the amount of socializing going on in this lobby? Andy agreed. … which got me thinking about something Kottke has penned about several times in the past: what should a badge really look like? The EconSM Badge (Typical of 99% of badges in the world) Crimes committed: Too small at 3 inches tall by 4 inches wide. The Deliverables
Who cares if it is an innovation? - Innovat by Yann Cramer I sometimes hear argument about whether this or that proposition represents an innovation or not: to which extent is it really new? How do we know we are the first? How different is it from this other proposition? Who cares? If it creates value, it's worth pursuing. 40 years ago, in "Diffusion of Innovations", Everett Rogers described the life-cycle of an innovation as it journeys from innovators to early adopters, early majority, late majority, to finally reach laggards. Every second spent debating the nature of the beast is a second lost: while you talk about it, others who have a greater sense of urgency are doing it. In "The Ten Faces of Innovation", Tom Kelley provides one of the best illustrations I have ever heard of: that of Tellme's VP of Caller Experience, Gary Clayton, receiving during a business dinner feedback from a prospect about an issue with Tellme software platform, placing a discrete phone call to his staff, and getting it fixed before dessert!
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