Entries from April 2010
Have you ever been in the midst of a lousy situation and gone, “Man, if I’d just negotiated differently a few months ago, I would not be in this mess” We negotiate every day, with ourselves, our spouses, our kids, our business partners. When I want to understand things better, I usually start doing research [...]
Tags: Uncategorized
(link to the set of SketchNotes) Above is a slideshow of SketchNotes I created at day 1 of the 2010 NYC 140 Characters Conference. Jeff Pulver assembled an amazing roster of people to speak at the conference, from NBC’s Ann Curry, to MC Hammer, to Jay Rosen. They, and many other speakers, discussed the implications [...]
Tags: Uncategorized
I am delighted that I will be taking visual notes at the 2010 140 Characters Conference, as I did last year. Only this year, on the first day, I will be creating the notes on an iPad that award winning digital agency R/GA is sponsoring me with. Since the conference is about the business and [...]
Tags: biz · comics · creativity · Digitized With Jonny Goldstein · drawings · education · entrepreneurship · graphic faciliation · images · making the world a better place · marketing · media musings · mobile media · People Who Rock · Performance · PR · Public Speaking
Dave Martorana was kind enough to let me play around with the SketchBook Pro App on his shiny new iPad. This was all done with my fingers. While it was fun, it is highly limited. Limitations: 1) Not pressure sensitive—that means you have no control of your line weight in real time. This is caused [...]
Tags: Uncategorized
I was proud to have the opportunity to speak at a press conference at City Hall on the topic of Philadelphia’s request for Google to install an ultra high speed data network here in Philly. That is Mayor Nutter looking at me as I share my thoughts on why Philly would be an ideal testbed [...]
Tags: contests · entrepreneurship · Good Causes · images · indy hall · making the world a better place · nptech · People Who Rock · personal meanderings · PR · Public Speaking · small business