The future of search is verbs I like the simplicity of this statement. It’s a catchphrase for the concept that most of the time people aren’t searching for information just for the sake of it, but because they want help in making a decision or carrying out some action. Here’s the quote in full, as […]
Read morePlayfulness is one of the most important aspects of innovation
Here’s another little bit of mind candy from Tim Brown [of design company IDEO] taken from the brainbox TED. He talks about the link between play and innovation, how important it is to think back to the way creativity and imagination operated at a childhood level. We fear the judgement of peers.We’re embarassed about showing […]
Read moreOnline, readers can compose their own beginnings, middles and ends
For those of you who don’t know Lynette Webb, the insights manager at Google – you can read the previous posts here and here. For those of you who do, here’s another doozy: “The idea for this slide came from a recent article in the NYT about how the internet is impacting literacy: “Clearly, reading […]
Read moreGetting peeps to your posts…
A great post from Darren over at Problogger about getting more traffic to your blog that I thought I’d share with you. It’s a great post and good food for thought. When you think about it, it’s how we think about communication in general [or should do]. Who are we talking to? What interests them? […]
Read moreA little ditty for your next innovation workshop…
Another good piece of innovation stimulus from the lovely Lynette Webb, Insights Manager at Google who created a Flickr site called “Interesting Snippets”. I’ve profiled her before and this is the latest image to her collection. It comes to us with a great quote from Russell Davies’ blog entry about Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes […]
Read moreBeta goes meta: From innovation to trend in a heartbeat
A great post by CNET blogger Tim Leberecht taken from Matter/Anti Matter. Innovation isn’t limited to R & rooms anymore. The Web 2.0 movement–powered by start-ups such as Twitter, Malhalo and even YouTube, has proven that innovation often happens in iterations. Build, launch, tweak, measure, repeat. Digital experiences seem to be ‘always in beta’–learning and […]
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