Font Conference – CollegeHumor video
The humor in this video is centered on imagining how fonts would behave if they were people. You have to really enjoy typography to fully appreciate…
The Social Media Education of Joanne–Part Two–The Big Three
Second in a series of social media tutorials for executives and the generally curious. My main goal for this post is to somewhat de-mystify social media. …
There is no glamour in founding a company
Daily Grommet made the final cut for an upcoming “All Things Media” venture capital forum in NY. Happy days. I had to go to a preparatory…
The Social Media Education of Joanne–Part One–Social Networks
We have a new co-founder at our startup, Daily Grommet. Joanne is world-class. But she is has a very common gap among executives of a certain…
Like Mother, Like Son
My oldest boy, Dane, is studying design at Carnegie Mellon. You’d think having a industrial designer mother would have made that a natural. But when he…
Something I never heard from a CEO before, and other miscellany from SEED
37 Signals hosted the third annual SEED Conference last Friday in Chicago: it lived up to its commitment of being all about design, entrepreneurship and inspiration.…
My friends are turning into Amandas
I was thrilled to see one of my all-time-favorite college interns, Amanda Mooney, quoted in the current Business Week cover story: Beyond Blogs; what business needs…
IDEO at Nantucket
I’m just back from the Nantucket Conference. It included two sessions on design thinking, and it was fun to trade notes about the design “biz” with…
Twittering, glittering, on Facebook
I’ve noticed that the type of friend feed status updates I get on Facebook are much more interesting when they get posted via Twitter. People update…
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