Take a glance at this from
Word of Mouth Marketing | Intersection Consulting Marketing Blog
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
alan watts and the journey
I have always admired Alan Watts and used his books way in the distant past to help me understand life's journey. Here in a brief (2min) video Alan narrates a cartoon titled Music and Life. enjoy!
Friday, March 27, 2009
Michael Jordan - on Failure
This puts another twist on the old proverb:
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"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
The Simplicity Cycle by Dan Ward
Most cliches find their origin in truth, and 'less is more' is one that rings true to me.
Dan Ward succinctly shows us that increased complexity does not inherently equal increased goodness and instructs us on how to walk that fine line while still innovating.
Thoughts Illustrated: The Simplicity Cycle - A manifesto
Now the manifesto has been published as an ebook( free)and a paperback($9.95)
Dan's version 1.0 is shown here
And version 2.0 was in the manifesto.
I have downloaded the ebook and will also buy the paperback for my library and I encourage you to do the same. To get the book link below:
The Simplicity Cycle by Dan Ward (Book) in Engineering:
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Dan Ward succinctly shows us that increased complexity does not inherently equal increased goodness and instructs us on how to walk that fine line while still innovating.
Thoughts Illustrated: The Simplicity Cycle - A manifesto
Now the manifesto has been published as an ebook( free)and a paperback($9.95)
Dan's version 1.0 is shown here
And version 2.0 was in the manifesto.
I have downloaded the ebook and will also buy the paperback for my library and I encourage you to do the same. To get the book link below:
The Simplicity Cycle by Dan Ward (Book) in Engineering:
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Armano again - This time on the Passion Files.
This slideshare audiocast illustrates the use of SlideShare audio casting and David's unique ability to use his Library of visuals to support his responses to interviewer Sean's questions.
I will be subscribing to both David's blog and Sean Howard's Passion Files to keep my passion for visual thinking up to speed and up to date.
Take a look - 11 minutes and worth it.
I will be subscribing to both David's blog and Sean Howard's Passion Files to keep my passion for visual thinking up to speed and up to date.
Take a look - 11 minutes and worth it.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Concept Workers - Visual Thinkers?
From Tony Karrer's blog:"That's why I'm liking the idea of referring to work that involves figuring out unknowns as concept work and the people doing this work as concept workers."Concept Worker : eLearning Technology
Concept workers need visuality. ( a term coined by Kevin Kelly here Thoughts Illustrated: Kevin Kelley on Visuality ( NYT)
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Monday, March 02, 2009
A new take on a famous optical illusion
Here's a new way to visualize this famous optical illusion - Youtube it!Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Innovation Economy - INGENESIST
IN this slide deck (embedded below) , Daniel Robles explains his unique vision for an Innovation Economy. His concepts of information, knowledge and innovation shown in the slide above are the driving forces for his Open Source project : Ingenesist - . You can view his presentation on this page or see a larger size version by clicking on the slideshare logo at the bottom right of the presentation .
I had run across Dan's vision over a year ago and posted on it here Thoughts Illustrated: The Great Train Wreck of Social Networks - can we be saved?
Here's the slide deck:
Monday, February 16, 2009
Barack, Inc. - leveraging the President's brand
In very clever play on Obama's use of social networking to catapult him into the presidency, and trading on the popularity of the Obama "brand", Barry Libert and Rick Faulk (Chairman and CEO respectively of Mzinga- a social networking service) have rushed an Obama book into publication that is a not-too-subtle promotion for Mzinga services.
This link to Mzinga is on the landing page of the Barack, Inc blog:
Barack, Inc. blog
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Kevin Kelley - the next 5,000 days of the Web
These are the last two slides in a 20 minute presentation by Kevin Kelley - IMO a person who articulates our web experience now and in the future better than anyone.
I think his whole talk ( from TED Talks) is worth listening to so you will understand what Kevin means by "ONE".
Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web | Video on TED.com
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The Fast Company 50 - 2009: Team Obama is Number 1
"The year's most successful startup took a skinny kid with a funny name and turned him into the most powerful new national brand in a generation."
The infographic shown above features an animated timeline chart of key news clips of the Obama campaign.(To see the animation click on the link below.)
The Fast Company 50 - 2009: Team Obama | Fast Company
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Generation WE - Yes we can!
I have 12 grandchildren ages 8 - 26 who are all part of Generation WE, and I am really enthused about the potential they and their generational cohorts have to effect the important changes they need to achieve a sustainable future.
They have already made their political clout evident as they turned out in massive numbers to vote for Obama - and they now have a taste of what it is like to play an active role in making our world a better place.
My primary purpose in life is to help Generation WE to design and implement an audacious project: Project Free: Generation WE: A Generation 95 Million People Strong
Saturday, February 07, 2009
The Visual Repertoire of Obama’s Run for the White House
I've been quiescent on this blog for several months due to radiation therapy which sapped my energy and interest in things visual - so, as a restart to my visual journal, i have clipped just a couple of images from a remarkable visual overview of Obama's run for the White House. Published by the Parson's Institute for Information Mapping and originally compiled by the Information Design Studio in Amsterdam.
Click here to scroll through the visual history of Obama's campaign:
The Visual Repertoire of Obama’s Run for the White House
Click here to scroll through the visual history of Obama's campaign:
The Visual Repertoire of Obama’s Run for the White House
Monday, November 24, 2008
Kevin Kelley on Visuality ( NYT)
An insightful glimpse into the new potential for visuality - as we become "people of the screen" Here are a few clips from Kevin's NYT article which can be found in its entirety Here: Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com
"The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority. On the screen, the subjective again trumps the objective. The past is a rush of data streams cut and rearranged into a new mashup, while truth is something you assemble yourself on your own screen as you jump from link to link. We are now in the middle of a second Gutenberg shift — from book fluency to screen fluency, from literacy to visuality."
"Take, for example, the problem of browsing a feature-length movie. One way to scan a movie would be to super-fast-forward through the two hours in a few minutes. Another way would be to digest it into an abbreviated version in the way a theatrical-movie trailer might. Both these methods can compress the time from hours to minutes. But is there a way to reduce the contents of a movie into imagery that could be grasped quickly, as we might see in a table of contents for a book?"
"The fluid and fleeting symbols on a screen pull us away from the classical notions of monumental authors and authority. On the screen, the subjective again trumps the objective. The past is a rush of data streams cut and rearranged into a new mashup, while truth is something you assemble yourself on your own screen as you jump from link to link. We are now in the middle of a second Gutenberg shift — from book fluency to screen fluency, from literacy to visuality."
"Take, for example, the problem of browsing a feature-length movie. One way to scan a movie would be to super-fast-forward through the two hours in a few minutes. Another way would be to digest it into an abbreviated version in the way a theatrical-movie trailer might. Both these methods can compress the time from hours to minutes. But is there a way to reduce the contents of a movie into imagery that could be grasped quickly, as we might see in a table of contents for a book?"
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Powers of Ten-like view of the neurons of the brain
Everyone has probably seen the Powers of Ten Movie -- If you haven't, this short video visualizes a "zooming out" at the neuronal level of a single neuron, simulated in a collaboration between IBM and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne using the largest IBM supercomputer.
So that's where thought occurs!!!
EPFLTV: EPFL's video portal
So that's where thought occurs!!!
EPFLTV: EPFL's video portal
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Me to We - how to score in the social world
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
The world is Flat - take 3 - or more if you want
Here are three views of The World is Flat. The first is a visual mural created by a visioneer listening to Charlie Rose interviewing Tom Friedman on The Charlie Rose show.. click on the mural for a larger,sharper image
The second is the Charlie Rose interview on You Tube
The third is a selection from Slideshare where the same information is conveyed in a powerpoint presentation produced by consultant Andi Boediman (credits at the end of the preso) you can watch the preso right here or click on the slideshare logo at the bottom right of the embedded slides to go to a full screen version for better viewing.
Take the tour from the mural to the video to the slideshow - eventually I will edit the video and provide clickable links from the mural to the related short video clips that provide the narrative background - and perhaps I will do this also with the slideshare deck, providing my own voice over narration and hopefully making it possible for viewers/listeners to switch back and forth between the different media.
Of course there should also be a clickable button for ordering Tom'sbook from Amazon or maybe even better his revised version. like this Amazon.com: The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century: Thomas L. Friedman: Books
which takes you to Amazon where you have these choices:
The second is the Charlie Rose interview on You Tube
The third is a selection from Slideshare where the same information is conveyed in a powerpoint presentation produced by consultant Andi Boediman (credits at the end of the preso) you can watch the preso right here or click on the slideshare logo at the bottom right of the embedded slides to go to a full screen version for better viewing.
Take the tour from the mural to the video to the slideshow - eventually I will edit the video and provide clickable links from the mural to the related short video clips that provide the narrative background - and perhaps I will do this also with the slideshare deck, providing my own voice over narration and hopefully making it possible for viewers/listeners to switch back and forth between the different media.
Of course there should also be a clickable button for ordering Tom'sbook from Amazon or maybe even better his revised version. like this Amazon.com: The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century: Thomas L. Friedman: Books
which takes you to Amazon where you have these choices:
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Guy Kawasaki and Dan Roam - the art of visual thinking
(Click on the images to get a larger view.)Guy provides another gem to promote Alltop Innovation by teaming up with Dan Roam Thoughts Illustrated: Back of the Napkin -visual thinking - you can do it!
Here's a link to the original article
The Art of Visual Thinking | AlwaysOn
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Be Grateful for your day.
this is from Claudia Welss blog and will open your eyes to how beautiful your day really is and why you should share your gratefulness with the rest of the world. - the video will help you do this and will give you a sense of the beauty and the gifts that life gives us every day.
Brother David Stendl Last is the narrator from GRATEFULNESS.ORG - A Network for Grateful Living
Brother David Stendl Last is the narrator from GRATEFULNESS.ORG - A Network for Grateful Living
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Telepresence on "House"
Pretty good promo for Telepresence (and some nice product placements for Apple: First clip( 44 seconds) is a SuperBowl commercial trailer for the House episode Frozen showing Dr. House and his medical staff collaborating with a patient to diagnose and treat her symptoms "a world away" at the South Pole.
This sceond clip (2:34) has key trailers from the Frozen episode showing more detail of the Telepresence interaction between House and his distant patient. Happy ending.
This sceond clip (2:34) has key trailers from the Frozen episode showing more detail of the Telepresence interaction between House and his distant patient. Happy ending.
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