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The Back of the Napkin, by Dan Roam"Visual thinking means taking innate advantage of our ability to see, with our eyes and our mind's eye, in order to discover ideas, develop those ideas quickly and intuitively, and share those ideas with others in a way that they simply 'get'" This book is a brilliant elaboration on Bill Buxton's idea of sketching, with a catch.The brilliance is in the simplicity and elegance of the model: people understand things better, and find them accessible, when they're sketched, competently and articulately, one step at a time, by handcollect everything you can look at that's relevant, lay it all out, organize and orient it, and then do triage on itdefine the problem using the 6 questions in the chart above, and illustrate it with the 6 corresponding types of graphicexplore the 5 dimensions of ways of looking at the problem: simple/elaborate, quality/quan... vision/execution, individual/comparison, and change/as-iswhen presenting the results of your problem-
How to Save the World Wednesday, July 23, 2008

What causes webinar attendees to bail?

Webinars and webcasts are a key tactic in lead generation toolkit. The challenge with webinars is that if you don't do a super job, attendees will bail on you and they may never register one of your events again. That's...
Brian Carroll Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Special Report: What's Up With Solid State Hard Drives?

It seems like every new drool-worthy notebook these days -- from the MacBook Air to the VooDoo Envy -- is sporting solid state hard drives instead of traditional hard drives. If you don't know the particulars of what solid state drives do (and if you have a life, you might not), then you might be wondering why the option to add an SSD, as they're abbreviated, can add a whopping $1000+ to the price of your made-to-order laptop. read more
Fastcompany Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Fannie and Freddie: One HELOC to Go, Please

Late today the U.S. House of Representatives okayed Treasury Secretary Paulson's aid plan for beleaguered mortgage financing duopoly Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. My favorite part? The plan includes, as requested, an unlimited line of credit for Paulson to exercise on behalf of the two companies. Kind of ironic, isn't it? The bailout plan for mortgage-struck Freddie and Fannie includes something awfully similar to the sort of home equity line of credit (HELOC) nuttiness that got the mortgage market in trouble in the first place. Maybe we should call it a NELOC -- a national equity line of credit. Good thing the U.S. still has some.
InfectiousGreed Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Samsung Reveals Media Streamer

Today is apparently Samsung day here on the Tech Watch blog, partially because your humble blogger attended a fancy Samsung media demo event today in New York's West Village, and partly because the tech gods haven't bestowed upon us anything else of interest today. In any case, on with the gadgets: read more
Fastcompany Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The Barbie Bubble

When I finally cleared through thecrowd of technology reporters at the press preview for Digital Life - thelargest consumer electronics show on the East Coast - I saw the booth causingthe buzz was Mattel. Besides hand-held games, the tyke toy behemoth wasshowcasing its Barbie Girls virtual world, a girls-only "digital playground"for ages 8 to 15. read more
Fastcompany Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Workipedia: Office Wikis and the Collaboration Revolution

Gone are the days of paper here at the offices of FastCompany.com. Virtually all in-house office communication is done electronically. E-mail is a given, as is teleconferencing. But what our office does, along with an increasing number of other streamlining-minded businesses, is employ wikis extensively. read more
Fastcompany Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Dancing Is The New Energy Generator

Scientists and club owners have joined forces in a new venture using alternative resources, and it's dance power. Club WATT, the world's Sustainable Dance ClubT will open September 4 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, following in the footsteps of the world's first eco-club, Club Surya, in London on July 10. read more
Fastcompany Wednesday, July 23, 2008

First There Were Books, Then Blogs, and Now There's Blooks

Just when one Internet phenomenon achieves enough hype, something new is right around the corner. Blogs, YouTube, Twitter, it goes on. Now there's the Blook. Former Fortune 500 CEO Paul Mongerson recently launched OurBlook.com, a new Web 2.0 tool offering users a new way of discussing current issues. The site provides more depth and tuning than a blog, but more flexibility than a book. read more
Fastcompany Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Consumer Perceptions, Manipulation and Molding

Turns out that we as consumers can be easily manipulated -- and it's probably happening far more often that we'd like to imagine. A couple of studies released this year draw attention to this. The first demonstrates that consumers are prone to value high price tags - not always because of any intrinsic quality such as better taste, texture, performance or higher comfort levels that the products bearing these prices possess - but sometimes simply because the price is higher. read more
Fastcompany Wednesday, July 23, 2008

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