June 2008
Sometimes, You Just Want The Cake
Jun 26, 03:03 PM
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http://www.imaginepub.com/minds/sometimes-you-just-want-the-cake
EXCELlence at Imagination
Jun 26, 02:12 PM
... Awards are nice. Especially when they come from your peers. Of course, awards aren’t the reason ... we produce the work or the content; but an award is like tasty icing on the cake when a bunch of ... judge your work and deem it excellent. The EXCEL awards are ... by SNAP each year to recipients who produce association content; i.e. ... websites, enewsletters and other content that associations publish for their members. This year, ...
http://www.imaginepub.com/minds/excellence-at-imagination
Where Do You Work?
Jun 21, 04:39 PM
... Virgin Media re-branded over 1,000 offices in the UK recently, focusing on the whimsy of their ... and the average age of their call-center employees (23). According to them, they wanted to make ... spaces more integrated and encourage divisions within the company (salary, age, etc) to disintegrate ... these spaces in favor of interaction. While thinking about this, I also came across ...
http://www.imaginepub.com/minds/where-do-you-work
Friday Afternoon Fun
Jun 20, 12:57 PM
... Below is a good example of the power of editing and sound in video. With the right music ... the right look, a comedy as legendary as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off can be recast as a ... film about…well, I’m not exactly sure. The point is that with a little Imagination just ... anything can be repurposed into something completely different. ...
http://www.imaginepub.com/minds/friday-afternoon-fun
Borders
Jun 20, 09:30 AM
... This is a short post, but I hope it can spark some conversations… The issue of net ... has certainly set some people’s blood a’boil. The idea of limiting the speed of the ... for some users and offering an artificial ‘premium’ access level goes against everything ... revolution stands for, including the democratization of access to information. So why ... we up in arms about the artificial borders we place on content? Why is it that International users ...
http://www.imaginepub.com/minds/borders
The Heretic Retires
Jun 18, 08:11 PM
... Virgil Carter is retiring. The hackneyed “distinguished career†comes to mind but, in fact, the ... director of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers has had ... careers, association management being only the most recent. And given that he’s been an ...
http://www.imaginepub.com/minds/the-heretic-retires
For Teens, It's All About the Social
Jun 18, 06:59 PM
... I was thumbing through a recent study published by OTX, and found it a ... reminder that not all behaviors are immediately transferring to digital. Researchers asked a ... of “Would you rather?” like questions, and found some interesting stats: Shop in ... store 82% — this one’s social ... online 18% — this one ain’t Have a lot of “real friends†91% ...
http://www.imaginepub.com/minds/for-teens-its-all-about-the-social
Storytelling
Jun 18, 06:59 PM
... People love stories. Perhaps it was all those overly violent bed time tales Mom told us, but ... hooked on a good narrative. Marketers know this–I’m not telling you anything you don’t ... know. The deli down the corner has a story, so does my dry-cleaner, my bank, my coffee shop, ... favorite restaurant, the company that made my pants… well, you get the picture. ... of those stories involve me. How about the story of your first customer? How about ...
http://www.imaginepub.com/minds/storytelling
Socially speaking
Jun 16, 10:55 AM
... Agency Bootcamp, and two questions were asked that got me ... Is community dead? How authentic are these connections made online? ... is not only alive, but thriving thanks to the Web. Geography is no longer an impediment to who takes ... in your life and how. One click of a mouse and people are able to gather in town halls of their own ...
