Category: Funny

How to kill that pesky creativity in your business

This video by Harvard Professor Youngme Moon has been sitting in my open tabs for a couple of weeks now as a irreverent reminder of the safe-play bingo phrases which find their way into so many meetings…

My Anti-Creativity Checklist from Youngme Moon on Vimeo.

 

I’ve got *my* personal favorites (being one of the guys mentioned in rule #13) – what are yours?

PS – Anyone want to buy me Youngmes book ‘Different‘ ? I want to build up my shelf-help library… (yes, SHELF – I need a good excuse to take some time to read AND implement 🙂 )

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Commentary on Corporate Approaches to Social Media

Honestly, this is brilliant – while the clip itself has been mashed up to cover everything from Hitlers replacement motorbike to his choice in gaming consoles, this subtitling by Laurel Papworth (original article) has a bunch of agencies across the ditch resorting to ad-hominems – a classic sign of “oh-bollocks-what-do-we-do-now”.

Disclosure: I have met and spent time with Laurel during a workshop a few years back and was well impressed then, as I have continued to be as I’ve followed her commentary on all things social media. For those interested, I’d recommend following her posts, and subscribing to her podcasts.

Site Design and UI – An Educational Video

The embedded video came across my Twitter feed this morning (thanks @rgoodchild) under the heading of ‘The Perfect Geek Rapper’. Now while m0serious may not be in the same league as NerdCore rapper MC Frontalot,his material will still coax a smile from those of us who have an interest in site design, UI and Ux – as well as imparting some good coding behaviors…

Slap on your headphones and have a listen:

Peace out yo… (Man, I’m soo hip and street and stuff… *makes complicated gesture with fingers*)