Community Genius: Tips for Leveraging Community to Increase your Creative Powers

I gave a talk at Seattle’s sixth Ignite: Community Genius: Leveraging Community to Increase your Creative Powers. The text for the talk is below. A few folks were asking about the slides so I put them up on SlideShare here.
I read a book a while ago by Scott Berkun, Myths of [...]

CHI vs E-tech

I am at CHI this week, and last night I found myself in a conversation about the differences between CHI and e-tech (O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology). These two events have very different crowds, but they tend to focus on the same topics – innovative “human-computer-interaction” technologies. The comparison between CHI and E-tech has been very much [...]

Step by Step Instructions for Brainstorming your Innovation Team’s Next Project

Step by Step Instructions for Brainstorming your Innovation Team’s Next Project:  AKA S.L.A.P. Brainstorming (I just made that up.  SLAP.)

Background:
You have an innovation team that is 5-9 people, a mix of people with design, research, and development background, but all on the team because they are innovators.  You have just wrapped up on your last [...]