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• 11.06.08
  The Chicago PhizzPop Tour, November 20th Community, Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Microsoft, PhizzPop, PhizzPopChicago, Technology | (0)

  Note, this post has been edited on November 15th, 2008. We’ll be hosting another PhizzPop Tour in Chicago this year. You can sign up here. This year’s tour has a twist in that we’re doing it with the partnership with a few important groups. Which are: Ogilvy Interactive, which is currently contributing services to the Chicago 2016 committee, the group that supports Chicago 2016 Olympic bid (Learn more at chicago2016.org). Ogilvy has helped define the design challenge this year and it will be focused on developing strategies to help Chicago land the ...
• 11.05.08
  Something new: BizSpark Business, Community, Current Affairs, Design Tools, Innovations, Microsoft, Technology | (0)

  Design Thinking Digest has been a bit of a ghost town lately and that’s largely due to two big efforts I’ve been focused on. One is the return of the PhizzPop Design Challenge Tour in the US (which I’ll talk about later) and a new program we announced today called BizSpark. Some background. It’s sometimes easy to forget the roots and heritage of a company like Microsoft. Like many great businesses of yore it wasn’t sketched on the back of napkin but formulated in a dorm room. It was started by folks with a sense of ...
• 08.09.08
  The Olympics Tipping Point: Why Television will never be the same. Business, Community, Current Affairs, Games, Innovations, Silverlight, Technology, Television | (0)

  I think the 2008 will be looked at as the year that television and how we think about broadcasting begin to alter into something that would be unrecognizable only a few years ago. The catalyst for this? NBC's broadcasting strategy for the 2008 Olympics. It's easy to look at what's disappointing about this effort (The lack of access to this great tool outside of the US and the somewhat challenging process of identifying your local NBC broadcaster but the benefits of NBC's actions and consumer demand will, I suspect, make these constraints go away in the future too. NBC ...
• 02.03.08
  Marketing’s Perfect Storm Current Affairs, Design Methods, Design Thinking, Innovations, Speaking | (0)

  | View | Upload your ownThis is a presentation I gave at the pleasure of Critical Mass in Chicago. I got to go right after David Armano gave his Fuzzy Tail talk. My theme here was how the convergence of technology and social media was cramping the style of traditional marketers. Another presentation sorely in need of a ScreenCast. I promise I'll put some effort into that.

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