Jess Sloss // (bio) Communications Strategy at Giant Ant Media
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Mine showed me that I've spent a ridiculous amount of time online.
This video was sent to me by @ddje and @kittenthebad, thanks!
Tina Seelig, Executive Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program,tells about a project she assigned to an entrepreneurship class. How much money could you make in 2 hours with $5 of seed funding?
The results were amazing and encourging to those of us that like to overcome constraints.
Ben from the Instigaotor blog, highlights a handful of important lessons, here are my favorite:
1) There’s no substitute for doing something. That’s clear with the groups that had success. It’s not that they didn’t think about it, plan, brainstorm, etc. It’s their actions that were important. There were no business plans or slide presentations — just action, evaluation and reaction.
2) The teams that succeeded had a very strong sense of what was going on around them. It’s about having an awareness of your surroundings, to pick up on people’s needs, subtleties in the market that others might not recognize. It’s a good reminder that running straight ahead with your head down like a bull charging a red flag isn’t going to give you the perspective you need to succeed.
What a great project! I would have loved to do something like that when I was in university.
That sounds like a great exercise for classes everywhere. It's a lesson that could help many different classes, especially ones where critical thought and a focus on doing.
Sent to me by James from aaaaCalling on Change
I love the power that interaction design can have when communicating complicated or hard to visualize ideas.
thanks James
Mashable notes "As such, TweetedBrands is a fairly superficial measurement of which brands are hottest"
900 tweets a day gets you on this list. 1100 puts you a head of Coke. 124500 makes you the leader.
Crazy.
The full story can be found on the Vancouver Sun.
We've seen, Olympic copy right restrictions, demonstration restrictions, and that bizarre policy allowing the integrated security units to 'remove signs', BUT this is too much.
They soon to be ubiquitous red gloves have restrictions themselves, as
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and BC Premier Gordon Campbell demonstrated on Thursday.
From the Vancouver Sun:
"I like the thumbs up," Campbell said, with Harper at his side holding an Olympic torch.
"You can't put anything up but the thumb," replied Harper.
"He can't give you the finger in those things," he added, chuckling at the reporters in the room.
Campbell responded: "I've never experienced that."
Ha Ha ha .... these Olympics are going to be quite a show
