Every once in a while, I come up with an idea that I can’t really execute (at least by myself). In those cases, why let the idea just go away when I can put it out there and see if someone can run with it. Synopsis: Thunderheads is an online brainstorming tool designed to facilitate [...]

If you want to learn social media: Mack Collier, Jason Falls, Beth Harte, Chris Brogan, Amber Naslund If you want to go a little more high-level: Alan Wolk, David Armano, Greg Verdino, Geoff Livingston, Valeria Maltoni If you want to learn about design/UX: Whitney Hess, A List Apart, I Love Typography, The Dieline If you [...]

In no particular order Pygmy – Chuck Palahinuk – Classic Palahinuk. Intense, ridiculous, and not for the faint of heart. Despite the “broken English” writing style, I really enjoyed this one. Pretty sharp satire of American consumerism and xenophobia. A Whole New Mind – Daniel Pink (In Progress) I consider myself a “right-brainer”, so I [...]

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: “Don’t use Flash OMG! It’s sooooo tacky and overdone!”. OK, so honestly most of the time I’m not going to argue. I do think, however, that Flash has gotten a bad rap recently. We need to do more than just lay off the use of Flash, we need [...]

Do not read this book. Unless you want a fire lit under your ass. And let’s be honest, not everyone wants that. Ignore Everybody is not the kind of book that is going to spur deep, existential thinking, but it’s not really supposed to. As Hugh puts it with the title of Chapter 40, “None [...]

Not only is this a cool commercial from Bacardi (plays very well off the “timeless” vibe), but it has a great song. In fact, the song is what stuck with me even after the ad was over. It was that “Wow, I’m going to go look that up right now” type feeling that I’m sure [...]

Does your business or organization have a personality? No? Not really? Well, you better get cracking. Because it seems to me that, except in special situations, people don’t think of businesses in “business terms”. This seems to be an anomaly, because we think of other things such as clothing (flashy, sturdy, trendy), technology (revolutionary, useless, [...]