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1. Branded Social Media

   (My Blog/Social Media)

   ... Being mentioned in a good way that causes a sale is the end game. Give me a call if you want help thinking this through for your brand  ...

2. What is Google Thinking With Nexus One?

   (My Blog/Design)

   The reactions to Google's introduction of the Nexus One phone based on its open source mobile OS Android 2.1 have been mixed. This wide range of reactions should not be a surprise. After all, Google has ...

3. Powerful Design: Making Stairs Fun

   (My Blog/Design)

   ... are you doing to take advantage of human nature through design? Do you even understand what your users' behaviors are? Product functions, services, websites, brochures...all can benefit from rethinking ...

4. Aimee Mullins - Redefining ImageThrough Design & Legs

   (My Blog/Design)

   ... opportunity through design. In your business, are you seeing with new eyes today? Are you rethinking obstacles and turning them into opportunities? Enjoy her talk and challenge yourself. From the ...

5. Women Dominate Social Media

   (My Blog/Social Media)

   ... our businesses? The differences are not extreme for most sites and so might not impact thinking all that much. However, if you are using Classmates, MySpace or Bebo, it might be worth a bit of thought. ...

6. Innovation Means Commitment

   (My Blog/Effectiveness)

   ... challenge some well-established management "brain trusts", so top level support is essential to keep from crushing new ideas/thinking. Innovation teams can begin to think that they are the smartest, freshest ...

7. iPhone AppStore Dynamics Revealed

   (My Blog/Effectiveness)

   ... may wonder whether you should play at all if you were thinking of the AppStore as a distribution mechanism, but not solely focused on revenues. PinchMedia is a mobile application analytics firm that supplies ...

8. Are You Speaking Their Language?

   (My Blog/Relevance)

   ... engages rather than alienates their audience. After all, what you want to do is start a welcome dialog with your market, not impose your way of thinking on them. However, it is equally important to know ...

9. Competition In Partnership With Nature

   (Passions/Categories)

   ... of the boat and strategic thinking regarding both competitors and the evolving wind dynamics anticipated throughout a race.  ...

10. Protecting Wisconsin's Lakes - My Cause

    (Passions/Categories)

    ... feeding the lake, I was amazed at our WDNR and at our local community leadership for thinking that developers mattered more than protecting a main jewel of the area, Lake Beulah. Lake Beulah is one of ...

11. Design Ethnography - Knowing Without Showing

    (My Blog/Design)

    ... firm in the world and featured on the cover of Time Magazine's issue on innovation. Their process includes design ethnography followed by top notch creative thinking to derive what are called "frameworks" ...

12. Microblogging To The Extreme

    (My Blog/Social Media)

    ... about what they were doing or thinking without the pressure to write full paragraphs like this one. Twitter "tweets" are limited to 140 characters. As a result, numerous tricks were invented to stay within ...

13. Facebook's Struggle With User Rights

    (My Blog/Social Media)

    ... other's messages. Confusing privacy settings are, in their thinking, preventing users from sharing openly more of their content to larger audiences. The dilemna is that Facebook is not adept at rolling ...

14. They Made Me Stop And Pay Attention.

    (My Blog/Design)

    ... Who thinks this way? Who can take me beyond an advertising or simple web design mentality and into "thinking web sites"? Keep reading past the jump. I couldn't take my eyes off of these images. ...

15. My Passions

    (About Us/General)

    ... for thinking that developers mattered more than protecting a main jewel of the area, Lake Beulah. Lake Beulah is one of the cleanest lakes in southeastern Wisconsin and is an excellent spot to fish for ...