If you don’t regularly exercise your ability to connect face to face, you’ll eventually find yourself lacking some of the basic biological capacity to do so.
Let’s all “be here.”
A 2012 report by the New Media Consortium identified “game-based learning” as one of the major trends affecting education in the next five years.
Game on! More reason to explore engagement mechanics in what we do.
Intuitively, we know that the best stuff in life isn’t stuff at all, and that relationships, experiences and meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.
Seems apropos that I was reading this editorial when Laura made this photo.
What it really comes down to is creating a universal story and surrounding yourself with people who believe in your vision enough to see it come to life.
Wise words
There’s just so much out there. I think one of the real criminal things in the industry is that you see all these stories of somebody that wants to live in Los Angeles or New York, and there are all these other people in the world who are so talented.
Slowly… but changing.
Listening is a skill that we’re in danger of losing in a world of digital distraction and information overload.
Say what? I kid. I do think this is a serious issue. I find myself working hard to give my full attention and listen.
It’s not about taking an hour long break from Twitter; it’s about what you want to do during that hour that requires you to avoid Twitter.
In honor of offline day. What a healthy perspective.
It got more and more intolerable until finally I fled town to the Undisclosed Location from which I’m writing this.
I must Google Map: “Undisclosed Location.”
It’s hard to find anything to say about life without immersing yourself in the world, but it’s also just about impossible to figure out what it might be, or how best to say it, without getting the hell out of it again.
Oh, the classic Catch-22.
For designers, after a pretty decent amount of struggle, we are just barely starting to see the acceptance of digital design as something people should care about. Almost every agency is attempting to create a digital practice, and virtually every client is investing some money into digital projects. Acceptance is slow, much slower than I ever thought it would be. We may not have reached our “Blue Monday” moment yet —but we’re getting there.
The “Blue Monday” moment… is that really a thing? It should be. BBC Synth Britannia:
“New ideas” were increasingly just rehashed versions of other tools. You could also gauge the degree of development of the subsector by the vertical and horizontal nature of the social products. Every niche and nuance had a platform, and the “social stack” had everything from security to scheduling solutions.
and…
Watch as investors start moving more money into mobile, enterprise tech, and emerging markets. The social media bubble may be over, but the web boom is just beginning.
I think it’s less social but more engagement. Which reminds me of Oliver Reichenstein’s post: Sweep the Sleaze.
Excellent content, serious networking and constant human engagement is the way to build your profile.
This story from Matt reminds me of a post by Dan Gillmore on Digital Being entitled “What’s wrong with parents helping their children to self-publish books?” Specifically, this line:
What these parents are doing – at least the ones who don’t take it to extremes, as many American parents are known to do in a variety of ways (eg “tennis dads”) – is to encourage their children to create.
I also tweeted this earlier:
As we use to say back in the day, “Would you rather surf the web or make the waves?”
