Creativity and Innovation: Unleash Your Potential for Greater Success

Lynne d Johnson — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:03:25 -0400

Creative thinking is essential to your business! Relying on yesterday’s ideas, products and assumptions can spell failure to your company and be a detriment to your career. Now you can learn proven creative thinking techniques to generate new ideas and get a blueprint for establishing a climate of innovation in this lively, interactive and hands-on seminar. You will discover new ways to break through mental barriers, ho-hum thinking and roadblocks—in order to improve performance, stimulate creative thinking and unleash the creative potential in yourself and your team.

Innovation

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Lynne d Johnson — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:48:33 -0400

@Kasey Marcum - Your comment got my attention. Both you and @Matt Farina are probably right -- replaced is a bit overkill. When I think about the features of gmail as a webmail app, there's nothing about Twitter or FriendFeed that quite replaces some of the functionality there. It would be safe to say these types of services would work for companies in addition to corporate email. But now that I think about it, I argue that corporate email should work more like gmail.

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Lynne d Johnson — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:27:25 -0400

Communication forms like Twitter are simple -- which makes it elegant (at least when it's working). But it really makes instant communication, from an IM client, cellphone, a desktop app, email, extremely easy. You can immediately reply to people, send direct message -- all with simple commands. The only thing it's missing is a group feature. But that's where a service like FriendFeed comes in, because you can create rooms. FriendFeed though doesn't have as many means of connecting as Twitter does. I could really see corporate identities adopting Twitter-like services for employees.

WorkFast.TV: Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek

Lynne d Johnson — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:21:34 -0400

This week WorkFast.TV comes a day early to accommodate July 4, Independence Day. The guest today, Timothy Ferriss, is a great advocate of getting out of the office and getting on with life. To watch the show live and join the interactive chat room go here.

Fast Talk Response -

Lynne d Johnson — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:22:37 -0400

Why don't we just use cartons, like they do in Europe? (French Milk Carton) Or like the rectangular soy milk cartons? Why do we have to have excess and have gallons of milk anyway?

What Can America Do to Save Itself, and the Environment?

Lynne d Johnson — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:41:46 -0400

We're burning up resources at an alarming rate. What should big business be doing to turn it all around?

The Power Of Green

WorkFast.TV: How Best Buy Engages Employees to Improve Productivity

Lynne d Johnson — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:04:36 -0400

Today on WorkFast.TV: Best Buy's Michele Azar (VP Emerging Customer Channels) and Gary Koelling - co-founder of the 22,000-employee behind-firewall social network BlueShirt Nation talk about how employees are helping each other as well as customers to solve problems more efficiently on the front line.

Elizabeth and John Edwards on Politics Meets Web 2.0

Lynne d Johnson — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:07:22 -0400

On Monday, I attended Personal Democracy Forum 2008 to moderate a panel, "Data Geeks Unite!"

T-Mobile Enters Home Phone Market

Lynne d Johnson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:36:03 -0400

T-Mobile's @Home service promises to do what Vonage did before it, offer families choices for their landline service. The mobile phone company also plans to offer this choice at an exceedingly low cost -- only $10 per month.

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Lynne d Johnson — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:07:32 -0400

Matt Marshall of VentureBeat points out some holes in Arrington's analysis, and I'd have to say that he may have valid points here. (http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/23/the-real-market-value-of-social-networ...) For one, while Arrington talks about spend per user, Marshall points out that types of user matters.