September 2010
Does brainstorming work?
What many people mistakenly call “brainstorming” is in fact just “a bunch of people sitting around firing off and shooting down ideas.” Let’s call that “skeet-shooting.” And on that we can agree: working individually will work better than skeet-shooting in a group. via innovationtools.com Posted via email from Dave’s faves | Comment »
#AMA podcast interview with @davegray on How Games...
How interactivity will make your meetings and your ideas even better. Date: September 17, 2010 Podcast #: 10-38 Price: Free ’); document.write(‘’); document.write(‘’); ...
Getting Back to the Phantom Skill - NYTimes.com
The first few columns of this series on drawing that I’m initiating this week will offer a primer on the basic elements of line-making, perspective, structure and proportion, which I hope will begin to rekindle the love of drawing for those readers who left it behind in the 4th grade. Achieving some confidence in drawing objects will get you started in the pleasure of this activity, and give you...
Bing Destination Map: Automatic Napkin Sketching...
When you ignore some of the UI elements, the sometimes prolonged waiting time, and the occasional crashes, Bing Destination Maps [bing.com] seems quite interesting as a new way of rendering geographical maps in a more visually simplified, understandable and accessible way. In other words, imagine one can now create a sort of information-optimized summary maps, similar to those you would...
Yes! It's the XPLANE Photostream!
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8.26.10 / Like Haiku, Only Much Longer 420 Characters is a book of stories (limited to 420 characters each, including spaces and punctuation) by illustrator Lou Beach. “I started out filling in the ‘status update’ box on Facebook with short fiction musings rather than the usual b.s. last year,” Beach told me. “Turned out people liked them and I...
I'm speaking at: Staying Relevant in the Future:...
Join Bank of America and Creative Tampa Bay as they host an afternoon with three International and National thought leaders in the area of technology, economics and community as they take the stage at Jaeb Theater to challenge us to rethink and plan for the future. via creativetampabay.com Posted via email from Dave’s faves | Comment »
Book 2.0 -- a new journal
Book 2.0 is a new, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal which aims to publish articles and reviews on developments in book creation and design, (including the latest progressions in technology and software affecting illustration, design and book production). It will also explore innovations in distribution, marketing and sales, and book consumption, and in the research, analysis and...
Gamestorming « circle and square
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August 2010
facilitating learning and change in groups and...
The idea that helpers and educators are facilitators of learning and change has been around at least since the 1960s. It was the work of Carl Rogers in the United States and Josephine Klein (1961) in Britain that brought the idea to the fore. However, the significance of facilitation and facilitators had already been recognized by some commentators on organizational life. Groups were...
The World Game as a paper space
From the 1970 Mother Earth News article about Buckminster Fuller and the World Game: I spent part of the morning talking to one of the people who’d worked with Fuller in 1970s at Southern Illinois University, and learned quite a bit about Fuller’s use of paper spaces. As he recalled, there were about fifty people working in Carbondale that summer, and they were all in a...
Voting Fatigue | Taylor Davidson (@tdavidson)
Yes, I currently have a Pepsi Refresh Project and three SXSW panel proposals up for voting. And I’ll probably write blog posts about them soon. But I’m torn. Wait, don’t get me wrong; I love supporting friends’ projects. Send them over, I’ll take a look, and vote, donate and help promote if it’s meaningful, valuable, and can change lives (yours, mine, everyone). I like the players. But I...
Gamestorming with Dave Gray at IxDA San Francisco
Upcoming Events Webcasts Gamestorming with Dave Gray at IxDA San Francisco Date: Aug 31, 2010 Start Time: 06:30 PM Presented by: Dave Gray Location: Hot Studio, Inc. San Francisco Join Dave Gray (Gamestorming) as he talks about his new book that features a unique collection of games to encourage engagement and creativity while...
Doodle on with Sunni Brown, Sharpie’s new resident...
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18 Formats for Visual Thinking in the Classroom...
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The Grove | Visual Meetings, by @DavidSibbet
When people work visually they have better ideas, make better decisions, and are more committed to producing results. A twenty-first century guide to using the latest visual thinking techniques with your groups and teams, Visual Meetings gives you a bounty of tools and tricks to unlock creativity, collaboration, and breakthrough thinking. via grove.com Posted via email from...
#Gamestorming for #Android
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#Gamestorming: Dot Voting - O'Reilly Answers
In any good brainstorming session, there will come a time when there are too many good ideas, too many concepts, and too many possibilities to proceed. When this time has come, dot voting is one of the simplest ways to prioritize and converge upon an agreed solution. via answers.oreilly.com Posted via email from Dave’s faves | Comment »
Heartcrossings: Review of Gamestorming
Gamestorming- A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers and Changemakers introduces the reader to some off the beaten path ideas for brainstorming, process mapping, prioritization, customer persona definition, problem scenario identification, requirement elicitation and much more. The games are uniformly interesting, well defined and easy to play. More importantly it is a large and diverse...
A Review of Gamestorming: A Playbook for...
For several weeks, I’ve been combing my bookshelves for activities to incorporate into my LIM class on social media marketing. I wanted games to drive home the information in unconventional, interactive ways. I went to my theatre books, my business books, and my books filled with writing exercises. Nothing seemed quite right. And then O’Reilly Media sent me Gamestorming. It felt like a gift out...
DRAWING CLUB | Cat Bennett #vizthink
How To Start a Drawing Club / Part One Drawing can grow our creativity on all fronts and it’s great to draw alongside others! Working together we amplify the benefits of drawing. We can have a lot of fun and affirm each other on our creative journeys. Nothing great is ever accomplished on our own. Energy and insight comes in sharing. A club is not an ordinary art class. In a...
How To Read O’Reilly eBooks like #Gamestorming on...
This page decribes the ways in which you can load O’Reilly ebooks onto your iPad. First, we’ll look at how to load and read ePubs and PDFs from O’Reilly ebook bundles. Then, we’ll cover how to extract an ePub file from an O’Reilly iPhone/iPod ebook application, available in the iTunes Store. via answers.oreilly.com Posted via email from Dave’s faves | Comment »
July 2010
24 Types of Authoritarians
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The Locked Room by @tomgauld
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Leslie's Artgallery : Women in Art by Eggman913
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Out Of The Box Publishing: Backseat Drawing...
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Cubicles Can Be a Collaboration Killer
Several technology companies, including Cisco, Microsoft and Intel, are tweaking their office layouts to emphasize open gathering spaces rather than cubicles. via itbusinessedge.com Posted via email from Dave’s faves | Comment »
Rudeness at work causes mistakes
If someone is rude to you at work or if you witness rudeness you are more likely to make mistakes, says Rhona Flin, Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of Aberdeen, in an editorial published in this week’s British Medical Journal. via sciencedaily.com Posted via email from Dave’s faves | Comment »
What I Learned @Overlap10 « Elliot Felix
People. People. People. The corollary to the 3 things that matter in real estate, these were the 3 things that made the event. Inspiring to learn about all others were doing and excited to continue the conversation. Think with your hands (and the rest of your body): Many of activities were structured to enable exploring ideas with the hands (Lego Serious play on urban design) and the rest of...
Forbes picked up "In Defense Of Games At Work" by...
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Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Economic...
Long-term performance deterioration In our new book, The Power of Pull, we summarize the metrics that we developed for the Shift Index – the first attempt to quantify the longer-term trends that have been re-shaping the business landscape over the past four decades. Of the 25 metrics in the Shift Index, one metric in particular stands out: return on assets for all public companies in the US. ...
Chess Computers | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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Basic Instructions - How to Argue Like a...
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Applied Gaming by @natronbaxter
The announcement of Epic Win, an upcoming iPhone application spread across the Internet last Friday, was heralded as a new way to make every-day tasks more enjoyable and compelling. Epic Win takes traditional elements from RPGs – quests, XP, rare loot – and layers them over the demands of daily life, with the expectation that the application will inspire us to “Remember that birthday card,...
Lightsaber battle, for fun, via @orian
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BBC News - Using computers to teach children with...
A 10-year experiment that started with Indian slum children being given access to computers has produced a new concept for education, a conference has heard. Professor Sugata Mitra first introduced children in a Delhi slum to computers in 1999. He has watched the children teach themselves - and others - how to use the machines and gather information. Follow up experiments suggest children...
Gamestorming press release from O'Reilly Media
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers—New from O’Reilly Media Creating an environment for creative thinking and innovation can be a daunting challenge. How can you make it happen at your company? The answer may surprise you: “Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers.” ...
Gamestorming, hot off the press!
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In defense of games in the workplace - O'Reilly...
In defense of games in the workplace “Gamestorming” author Dave Gray on how games cut through creative chaos. by Mac Slocum | @macslocum | comments: 1 We’re hardwired to play games. We play them for fun. We play them in our social interactions. We play them at work. That last one is tricky. “Games” and “work” don’t seem like a natural...
What can you do with a whiteboard?
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What can you do with sticky notes?
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Tony White ~ "Hokusai - An Animated Sketchbook"
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A cat, caught in a logic tree of his own...
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Selfish Beetle by @tomgauld
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A Dinosaur Family Explains Information...
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Scrollables | Multi-scroll Devices (thanks...
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June 2010
What Is Social Interaction Design? by @gravity7...
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Empathy Map Poster
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Molecular maps - a set on Flickr
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The economics of the World Cup
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