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Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School (tags: presentations howto speaking tips storytelling)

Corporate eLearning Development on Squidoo (tags: elearning training learning lens)

Please do not allow yourselves to be brainwashed by this mass media drivel. (Not just the article, but the episode) Look, I realize there’s a tremendous likelihood there will be a generation gap between us. You probably watch um.. what’s it called, again? Oh right, “television”. Maybe you don’t know there’s anything better since there [...]

Chromosomal looking olympians. Simple strokes though.

Managing design (tags: design management business strategy) Inhabitat » Transportation Tuesday: MIT’s Stackable City Car don’t care if it looks like the urkel mobile. we need it. and i want one. (tags: car transit environment future)

Working in groups on new “stuff” yields people to create concept documents that often are impregnated with the terms “portal”, or “kiosk”, or “handheld” or “consumer electronic device”. I believe that this is because of people’s obsession with high-technology. In reality, using extraneous technology is like using a nuclear bomb to get rid of a [...]

This Fast Company article gets straight to the heart of what’s important in creating innovation teams. I know many people with post graduate degrees coming out of their ears who can’t find a job. Why? Because they’re scholastically overqualified but don’t have the savvy, the perception and perspectives needed in a fast paced, competitive world. [...]

Chinese Culture Versus German Culture » Adino Online (tags: visualization design culture china germany)

Apparently, 1 in 10 high schools is a ‘dropout factory’. Say what? from the article: WASHINGTON – It’s a nickname no principal could be proud of: “Dropout factory,” a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That description fits more than [...]

Dapper: The Data Mapper (tags: mashup rss aggregator tools xml) thecoolhunter.net- Glowing Beauty – Skin, Florence (tags: UX design space) Go2Web20.net – The complete Web 2.0 directory (tags: Web2.0 directory)

40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design | Fonts | Smashing Magazine (tags: fonts design typography)

Myriad tomes have been penned about people and personality in the workplace, but my favorite one is still Love is the Killer App, by Tim Sanders. When I work on teams with intelligent people that are tough to work with or aren’t aligned, the results are staggeringly poor– In contrast I work on teams with [...]