I had the privilege of both speaking and attending the Big Design conference this past weekend, a two-day event filled with keynotes and workshops targeting designers and developers that are obsessed with the user experience. Being that I’m neither a designer or developer, I was a bit cautious rolling into this event, figuring much of [...]
Rebranding doesn’t work, as shown in these examples of Yankee pinstripes and stop signs. When you rebrand, you throw away everything you’ve invested in your current brand.
As easy as it might be to condemn such behavior, bosses instead need to embrace it. There’s nothing wrong with admitting that maybe, just maybe, your current workplace can’t meet all of your professional goals and curiousities. In fact, it might not even be able to train you in some of the areas you’re most interested in.
Instead of denying that it’s happening in your office, learn how to leverage it. Ask your employees what they’re working on. Find out what they’re learning. Get to know them more, and get to know what they can do for the company more.
Eight juicy tidbits from the past couple of weeks. Enjoy. Stuff Christians Like. I’ve just stumbled upon this extremely entertaining blog by Prodigal John. A couple of posts that got me both thinking and laughing are his Great Sex! Flat Abs! and Jesus!, and his Understanding How Metrosexual Your Worship Leader Is. Online MLM Sponsoring. [...]
Say what you will about the Snuggie line of products, but this is a pretty dang good landing page. Thoughts?
Mark has posted an excellent article on enhancing creativity by increasing your limitations. In essence, he explains that the blank page approach to creativity and innovation usually isn’t the most productive way to capitalize on our creative juices. Rather, limit yourself in certain areas and see what happens. I completely agree with his belief, and [...]
My brain has latched on to this interview by Mark Earls with Hugh MacLeod at GapingVoid, and it won’t let go. Thanks to Valeria for originally doing the latching. I’ve copied Valeria’s excerpt of Mark’s ranting below just to get you going. Here’s what I want to know as your reaction: How do you define [...]
I’m a little behind on sharing some great reading, but here are some highlights from the past couple months. Finding an extra 15 hours in your week. Seems the Marketing Minute posted all the great marketing blogs out there, and the next question became “How in the world do I find time to keep up [...]
Who said effective design needs to be high design? Watch this video (PR Web in Plain English), and try to tell me its simplicity doesn’t actually communicate better than a slicker version they could’ve done. When you care more about the listener than you do the speaker, communication gets better. p.s. Anybody got any tips [...]
Great reading from the past few weeks – enjoy! Charging By Project, Not By the Hour: If you keep up with my blog on a regular basis, you know I’m anti-hourly rates. The Freelance Switch, one of my favorite new blogs, nails it on the head in this post. In Skellie’s words, “Setting up timers [...]
