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Archive for July, 2010
July 29, 2010
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Ira Glass on storytelling
By Stephen in Story, communicationIra Glass (the genius behind This American Life), shares techniques for telling amazing stories.
July 28, 2010
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Bear with me a moment
By Stephen in communicationWhy do we sometimes say “bear with me” as we begin a story? Why do we sometimes ask an audience to hold their questions to the end of a presentation? Why is it important in some instances to communicate without interruptions?
Or is it because we want to reach the [...]
July 28, 2010
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The Big Ad Gig 2010
By Josh Webb in AdvertisingMy mom always said if you’re good at something, don’t give it away. But hey who cares, it’s for the ad council.
July 28, 2010
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A Spirit of Good
By Josh Webb in Change, Industry, NewsIf you haven’t noticed recently, there has been an encouragingly large amount of good being done in organizations. The Pepsi refresh project is a platform that allows causes to submit their ideas and they are voted on by a community. The winner gets a fairly large donation from Pepsi. American express has also joined the [...]
July 28, 2010
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ColorMatrixFilter Power!
By cwalburn in Labs, flash, technologyThe ColorMatrixFilter is a really useful filter for color manipulation of an image in Flash. It is basically a 4×5 matrix that allows you to change the RGBA value of each pixel based on its current RGBA value. You can look at it like row 1 is R, row 2 is G, row 3 is [...]
July 27, 2010
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The future of the Multi-Touch web
By Josh Webb in Innovation, digital, technologySo multi-touch is no longer the Minority Report of the future. The iPhone, iPad and iEverything else has helped pave the way for mainstream uhhh… touching. This is all cool and everything, but currently designers are tied to making an application when they want to design for multi-touch. With the release of the Magic trackpad [...]
July 24, 2010
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Technical Management in Digital Advertising
By Charles Duncan jr. in Advertising, Innovation, Inspiration, News, People, technologySince my transition from developer to manager of developers 4 years ago, I’ve been fascinated with art of technology management within an advertising agency environment. While technology management is well documented for software development companies, little exist for the development of complex web applications within a creative based environment. Below are a few high-level thoughts [...]
Tags: Innovation, People, technology. management
July 23, 2010
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Flipboard is Flipping Great
By Tony Quin in IPad“>
As I write this I am in Buenos Aires on vacation, where I have been coming for years. Part of my vacation ritual is to pick up a copy of the Herald Tribune every day to stay in touch with the news States side. Of course I have always had the option to go to [...]