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Phil Windley’s Technometria | Kathy Sierra: Storyboarding for Non-Fiction
Phil Windley’s entry on Kathy Sierra’s storyboarding techniques for non-fiction.
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Creating Passionate Users: How to create a non-fiction bestseller
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Creating Passionate Users: Add graphics to your blog, book, or presentation
Kathy Sierra’s post on graphics – how and why.
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Creating Passionate Users: Motivated to learn?
Kathy Sierra’s “Motivated to learn?” post, which explains “just in case” v. “just in time” learning.
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Q&A: Aggregation and the Future of Local News – Digits – WSJ
Fascinating interview with Darian Shirazi (age 23), the CEO of fwix.com (founded Oct. 2008), which sorts through ~200,000 pieces of news every day, “analyzing and filtering stories from tens of thousands of local sources.” How? An automated news wire, the company has developed algorithms that allow it to search through all this content for nuggets of pertinent/ valuable information.
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Avoiding Greenwash and Its Dangers – Andrew Winston – Harvard Business Review
Great article on greenwashing, with a link to Terrachoice’s Seven Sins of Greenwashing (which includes a cool online game).
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The problem of greenwash seems like a mild issue to worry about. But as advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather puts it in a new report, greenwash is actually “an extremely serious matter…it is insidious, eroding consumer trust, contaminating the credibility of all sustainability-related marketing and hence inhibiting progress toward a sustainable economy.” In other words, it’s very hard for customers to know what choices make a difference when some marketers are muddying the waters for all. When buyers throw up their hands in confusion, we all lose.
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From Vacancy to Vibrancy – the Creative Use of Space – Event Information | CityClub
An event in Seattle I’d love to have attended:
“From Vacancy to Vibrancy – the Creative Use of Space”
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What can the cultural sector do to benefit the long term economic picture of our community? Is there a way to bring space to artists and new life and capital to existing space? While the recession is on its way out, the construction boom that came before it left us with an overabundance of space. How are the development and business sectors coming together with individual artists and arts organizations to get creative and make lemonade? Are we creating the foundation for long term, mutually beneficial partnerships? Bring your own questions and ideas and join us!
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Pissoir Artists | Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine
Metropolis Magazine does a write-up of the City of Victoria’s pissoir, designed by Vancouver-based firm Matthew Soules Architect. Key feature? “…the humble steel pipe used to support stop signs, parking notices, and the like.”
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