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Category: Ideas

  • Active TV Watching and Twitter Tickertape

    So I heard today that during the Oscars, Grammys, the Super Bowl and all of those other big tv events – that 70,000 tweets are tweeted during those events.  Watching TV has become an active activity.  One experts says that we are now crowdsourcing professionally programmed and developed shows with…

  • LL30: Creating Content as Leadership

    Leadership can take on different forms.  Typically, the first thing that comes to mind for me when it comes to leadership is doing so from the front or up top.  I think about leadership as taking care of a project or initiative.  I think of leadership as having people follow…

  • Theory and Truth

    I presented my research yesterday in the Honors Forum at the college that I work at.  A friend asked me how I can know that any of my research is true.  I had to answer, that I did not know that it was true.  I was not making truth claims. …

  • Family Portraits and Identity

    What does your family portrait say about you and your identity?  What does the spacing and order of each family member mean? In some cases – it means absolutely nothing.  Maybe the particular picture wasn’t posed.  Maybe the configuration was necessary because of the size of the room, but maybe…

  • Fear and Faith

    So I heard a preacher tonight talk about fear and faith.  His description of the two was so simple yet so profound – to me at least. He said that fear is not being able to see the future but believing that it will happen. He also said that faith…

  • Embrace Fear

    That’s what Dean Potter said.  He’s one of the best climbers in the world.  He is also an incredible base jumper.  He’s an amazing athlete. What he has done is he has taken his climbing to a whole new level – doing things that no one else is doing.  He…

  • The App Store

    I went to a conference today.  There was someone from Apple that spoke at it.  He said that the App Store in iTunes has only been in existence for 18 months.  They’ve sold over 3 billion apps on the App Store – they’ve made billions of dollars on it.  He…

  • Predisposed to Problems

    One of the ideas that Chip and Dan Heath wrote about in Switch was this idea that we as people are predisposed to problems.  We automatically think about problems. On Monday after the football game, we will talk about the loss and all of the missed field goals by Nate…

  • Type with Your Thumbs

    There was a time when that was a very odd idea.  I mean seriously, I had to take a class (a typing class – on a typewriter) to learn how to put my fingers on the home keys.  I learned how to type 20 years ago – oh man –…

  • The Definition of Cuteness

    …according to wikipedia.org anyway – check it here if you want. Cuteness is a kind of attractiveness commonly associated with youth and appearance, as well as a scientific concept and analytical model in ethology, first introduced by Konrad Lorenz. That’s not the good stuff though.  The next paragraph is where…

  • Switch by Chip and Dan Heath

    Chip and Dan Heath wrote the book Made to Stick, and their latest book is Switch: How to change things when change is hard. I heard Chip Heath speak today.  He presented the main ideas of the book.  I also got a copy of the book and a year’s subscription…

  • 1 Out of a 100

    If I can write one good post out of a hundred, that would be fine by me. I guess that would mean that that’s 99 junk posts, but if that one post inspires someone or helps someone – that would be fine by me. If one person out of a…