Posted by Tim Leberecht - July 22, 2008
The (fabulous) "Communities Dominate Brands" blog points at a Guardian video interview with Arianna Huffington on the future of news journalism. Not too surprisingly, Huffington's view on traditional news reporting is not too rosy - in fact, she predicts a slow but inevitable demise.
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Posted by Tim Leberecht - July 20, 2008
Don’t forget about the GOOD Block Party today. Our friends from GOOD Magazine will once again bring the fun to the streets of San Francisco with live musical performances, food, drink, games, and activities for all ages.
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Posted by Tim Leberecht - July 19, 2008
The most exclusive brand in the world does not sell anything. Nor does it provide values, programs, or policies. It doesn't have a web site, a retail presence, a Facebook profile, a customer or member base. It is not clear whether the brand is a company, a non-profit, a political organization, a club, or a person.
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Posted by Doreen Lorenzo - July 18, 2008
BusinessWeek today announced the winners of the IDEA awards and our frogware LED light bulb concept won Gold.
Check out the online version:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/08_30/B4093idea_best_product_design_awards.htm
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Posted by Doreen Lorenzo - July 17, 2008
This week is the debut issue of our design mind magazine. A 60+ page magazine packed with interesting articles written by frogs around the world. It is a great way for our team to have an additional forum to express their ideas.
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Posted by Nick de la Mare - July 9, 2008
This is flow. Flow is what happens when you look holistically at a landscape. When you get out of the trenches, see beyond the tip of your nose or the next bump in the road. Flow comes with experience and confidence, knowledge and craft. Flow is a byproduct of practice and skill aquisition. Flow allows us to move faster and more cleanly, to fluidly avoid obstacles in our path. It is frequently beautiful and terrifying because it requires extreme self-confidence and the banishment of uncertainty.
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Posted by Tim Leberecht - July 8, 2008
In a recent blog post on the upcoming Fortune Tech summit, Fortune's senior editor David Kirckpatrick hinted at the possibility of having "a super-amazing special guest from outside the industry who we aren't yet able to announce. (Joining us at the original Brainstorms were Bill Clinton, Shimon Peres, Jordan's King Abdullah, and John McCain.) This visitor could make things really rock."
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Posted by Innovation 1-on-1 - July 5, 2008
Jonah Staw, co-founder and CEO of LittleMissMatched, heads-up a lifestyle brand that is based on "innovative and creative mixing and mismatching." LittleMissMatched launched in 2004 with a collection of mismatched socks sold in odd numbers to encourage girls of all ages to express themselves. The "nothing matches but anything goes" philosophy knocked people's socks off, and sales jumped from $5 million to $25 million in just three years. Today, the LittleMissMatched product line includes everything from socks, winterwear, and sleepwear to books, bedding, and furniture for mismatched mavens of all ages. LittleMissMatched products range in retail price from $5 to $1,200 and are available at specialty boutiques and department stores nationwide. The company just announced $17.3 million in private equity funding, expanded distribution, a new flagship store in Manhattan, and a series of new products.
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Posted by Tim Leberecht - July 3, 2008
I have a piece of advice for those who bemoan the lack of knowledge-sharing in their organizations: Make tacit knowledge explicit. Externalize expertise and experiences across all functions, from the office manager to the executive team.
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Posted by Adam Richardson - July 2, 2008
From the "what you see is not what you get" department, here's a great website illustrating many examples of how actual food does not exactly live up to the billing promised by the packaging. Originally this was on a German site so all the examples are German, but I'm sure you can think of examples no matter what country you hail from.
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