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Use Game-Based Marketing for Non-Profits
Use Game-Based Marketing for Non-Profits
With increasing frequency, we’ve been asked to speak to various groups about the use of game mechanics and funware in their businesses. This is a recent presentation covering the use of Funware in non-profit contexts.
With increasing frequency, we’ve been asked to speak to various groups about the use of game mechanics and funware in their businesses. This is a recent presentation covering the use of Funware in non-profit contexts.
Game Mechanics & Funware for Non-Profits
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beamME Delivers
beamME Delivers
Preferred by the Fortune 500 and startup CEOs alike, beamME is the most popular solution for professional, mobile networking. It lets you send your social, digital business card from your iPhone to any other phone or device. Your recipient doesn't need beamME or even an iPhone to receive your card, and both of you can add each other to your default address book with a single click. You get complete history, geo-location and the comfort of unlimited upgrades and priority support. Download now, and try beamME today!
Panel of Young Entrepreneurs (Entire Talk) Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture Series
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Six young Stanford grads and entrepreneurs -- Steven Garrity, Clara Shih, Kimber Lockhart, Jeff Seibert, Josh Reeves, and Tristan Harris -- share their experiences starting companies and raising capital. While being in their 20s may seem to be an obstacle to outsiders, they said they "flipped" this liability into an asset -- focusing instead on their raw ability to bring innovative ideas to life. They advise all young entrepreneurs to be persistent, opportunistic, and scrappy.
Friday, March 26, 2010
The future of... dressing rooms Shop smart with 'responsive mirror'
The future of... dressing rooms
Shop smart with 'responsive mirror'
Shop smart with 'responsive mirror'
The future of... concierges Help for business travelers 'surfaces'
The future of... concierges
Help for business travelers 'surfaces'
Help for business travelers 'surfaces'
Future Computing at TEDxAustin
Future Computing at TEDxAustin
At TEDx Austin, Chief Creative Officer Mark Rolston explores the fascinating intersection of technology with our perceived reality, drawing on examples from our own lives to illustrate how close we are to integrating the two. Mark shares his views on the human interface potential of content and how virtual may become the “new” real with technological advancements people are already working on to enhance human experiences.
At TEDx Austin, Chief Creative Officer Mark Rolston explores the fascinating intersection of technology with our perceived reality, drawing on examples from our own lives to illustrate how close we are to integrating the two. Mark shares his views on the human interface potential of content and how virtual may become the “new” real with technological advancements people are already working on to enhance human experiences.
The future of... ink First electronic magazine cover debuts
The future of... ink
First electronic magazine cover debuts
First electronic magazine cover debuts
how mobile technology can positively impact health care issues
Project Masiluleke - Pop!Tech 2008
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Cell phones changed everything in emerging markets. Isolated communities got a taste of access and upward mobility they’d never known before. Entire economies shifted as people were able to leapfrog roadblocks to communication. Now mobile technology is promising to transform healthcare in the same way.
Project Masiluleke will start that revolution. In a historic partnership between frog design, Pop!tech, iTeach, Praekelt, Aricent, Nokia Siemens and a number of other collaborators, Project Masiluleke (which means "lend a helping hand" in Zulu) is using mobile technology to tackle the worst HIV epidemic in the world in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, where infection rates are over 40%.
This is not the first attempt to address the HIV problems in KwaZulu Natal, but after sending a team to South Africa to do extensive research on the ground with local experts, we believe it will be the most effective.
frog is envisioning a solution that uses mobile technology in three crucial ways: 1) to encourage usage of low-cost diagnostic tools; 2) to walk patients through the testing process; and 3) to guide them into care should they need it, and encourage healthy preventative behaviors even if they don’t.
Project Masiluleke will offer an innovative distribution model that combines existing, low-cost diagnostic technologies such as saliva and blood tests with mobile support services in a region where mobile adoption rates are approaching 90%. And, crucially, this new solution will provide a level of privacy and anonymity essential to encouraging participation among men who typically elude the system.
Project Masiluleke launched its first phase on the first of October when a text message was sent to 1 million phones - the largest-ever use of mobile messaging to address HIV.
This launch phase is an important step, but a first step. Our goal is to show how mobile technology can positively impact health care issues in Africa so we can build a series of alliances that bring together mobile operators and distributed diagnostics on a global scale.
At frog, we see a future in which local health care providers, NGOs, and government agencies can log onto a website and configure a diagnostic solution tailored to their needs in large volumes and at an extremely cost-effective price. They will be able to increase access to diagnostic tools and regimens as well as prove their effectiveness in some of the most remote and under-served regions on earth.
“This concept kit holds so much promise. The depth of user research and understanding is impressive. The design solution is elegant in its simplicity and use of materials. I hope we get the opportunity to see how it works in the field.”
--Claudia Kotchka, Affiliate IDSA, vice president, design innovation and strategy, Procter & Gamble
“Thorough research leads to sensible packaging design that helps to stop the AIDS pandemic in S. Africa. This utilizes every element of the packaging to the maximum use for communication, storage and transportation. The system also connects the user to online help. Packaging design could help elevate humanity.”
--Eric Chan, IDSA, president, ECCO Design
The future of... data encryption Self-destructing data could help protect your privacy
The future of... data encryption
Self-destructing data could help protect your privacy
Self-destructing data could help protect your privacy
The future of... boarding passes A business traveler's dream
The future of... boarding passes
A business traveler's dream
A business traveler's dream
The future of... check deposits A bank in your back pocket
The future of... check deposits
A bank in your back pocket
A bank in your back pocket
The future of... mobile device chargers Let your walking do the charging
The future of... mobile device chargers
Let your walking do the charging
Let your walking do the charging
The future of... sticky notes Beloved adhesive notes get digital makeover
The future of... sticky notes
Beloved adhesive notes get digital makeover
Beloved adhesive notes get digital makeover
The future of...thermostats Monitoring energy use with new technologies
The future of...thermostats
Monitoring energy use with new technologies
Thursday, March 25, 2010
香港保濟丸含致癌物 中藥溫和 長期服用可改變體質？
香港保濟丸含致癌物 中藥溫和 長期服用可改變體質？
來賓：
衛生署中醫藥委員會主任委員 黃林煌
萬芳醫院副院長暨家醫科主任 謝瀛華
陽明大學藥理學科暨藥理學研究所教授 潘懷宗
醫藥記者 洪素卿
China plugged into electric cars
A Chinese carmaker has launched what it claims to be the world's first-mass produced electric car.
BYD have only been making cars for six years, but have produced a car that runs on batteries and can be plugged into an ordinary wall socket.
The company originally made mobile phone batteries, and it is this expertise that has allowed the upstart to leapfrog the likes of General Motors and Toyota.
The BBC's China correspondent, Quentin Sommerville, took the car for a spin.
Pierre Omidyar on eBay and Pez Dispensers, Leaving the Valley and the Most Important Thing He’s Ever Done
TC: Pierre Omidyar from sarah lacy on Vimeo.
It’s almost a cliché that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don’t go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money, they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people’s companies. But what did eBay founder Pierre Omidyar do? Moved to Honolulu where he can be found sitting on beaches.
But don’t let the top line narrative fool you, Omidyar hasn’t just been looking at sunsets all these years. He’s been busy making good on his commitment to give away some 99% of his multi-billion dollar fortune and lately has been launching Peer News, a new kind of online news service that won’t have reporters or articles in the classic sense, nor will it allow anonymous comments or make money off advertising. He’s definitely got at least the media world captivated once again.
eBay, philanthropy and now a local Hawaiian news site may seem like wildly disparate ventures for the same man to take, but as Omidyar explains in the video below they’re all connected by the ideas of platform and community—two words that have also underlined much of the Web 2.0 movement.
Just like eBay was a platform that gave people everywhere the opportunity to build out a business and change their economic reality, so too does the Omidyar Network seek to give passionate, would-be entrepreneurs an opportunity to change their world and their reality. As Omidyar puts it, he doesn’t have a “cause;” he gets excited about other people’s causes. Similarly at eBay he wasn’t a collector, but he loved hearing about other people’s collections.
On community, eBay was one of the first places that pioneered trust online through its reputation and feedback systems. Omidyar is hoping to bring that same kind of trust and fair-dealing to the local news world with Peer News—which is the reason anonymous commenters will not be welcome.
Omidyar talks about all of this and more in the video below, shot in his office in Honolulu. I started out by asking him about that great founders myth that he started eBay so his wife could trade Pez dispensers. (The one people claimed years later was just a good pitch for reporters.)
More News about Omidyar’s Peer News
by Sarah Lacy on Mar 18, 2010
I’m at the NewsMorphosis Conference in Hawaii today locked in a day of debates about the state of news quality and how the hell we find a business model to keep paying for it. It’s a big issue locally– earlier this year three of Hawaii’s five largest TV news stations merged operations and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin is merging with the other daily paper the Honolulu Advertiser, resulting in plenty of layoffs and general civic concern.
So it’s fitting that the conference ended with a talk by John Temple, the editor of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s new Peer News site, a test case in how the future of local news could work. And thankfully, we finally got a few more details on the site and the approach.
Temple was clear to say “there is no silver bullet” when it comes to fixing the media business, but also sees a great deal of hope in the volatility– this from the guy who was head of the now shuttered Rocky Mountain News, a paper that’s already gone through what so many dailies are dreading.
“We’re not trying to reinvent a local newspaper and put it on the Web,” he said. Indeed, the mission of Peer News doesn’t even contain the words “news” or “media” or “paper.” It’s simply “to create a new civic square.” Core to the development of Peer were three questions:
-What is the role of a free press in a democracy?
-How would you best fulfill that on a local level using all the tools available today?
-How do you do that in a sustainable way?
On content, the most interesting thing Temple talked about was doing away with “articles” as we know them. He criticized the static, episodic nature by which journalists have traditional covered news, challenging readers to hunt through archives for the information they want. Instead, Peer’s “building block” will be a page that’s always updated almost like Wikipedia, or as he put it, “something closer to a living history on a topic that changes as it develops.” There will no longer be a sense of “missing” an article, because the “articles” will be living things. That also addresses the critique that local news swarms around one issue, then moves on. “We’re not going to be hot topic driven,” Temple says. Going back to those questions, Temple says the role of a free press is to inform citizens so they can make intelligent decisions. “Let’s stop making it so difficult,” he said.
The other hallmark of Peer’s approach is what has made blogs popular– a sense of community. But it’s certainly a different approach. For one thing, Peer won’t have “reporters” in the classical sense, it will have “hosts” who help facilitate this civic square answering questions for the community. “In this era, the fact that newspapers still rewrite press releases is an embarrassment,” Temple said. “We’re not going to be stenographers. I think that’s a downfall of journalism.”
But for a site that intends to be very community oriented, there was one big shocker: Peer will not have comments. “(Comments) descend into racism, hate, ugliness and reflect badly on news organizations that have them,” said Temple. Why? Because people do not have to show their faces when they comment so there’s no sense of responsibility, he argued. “We think anonymity is a huge problem when it comes to comments,” he said.
Temple also emphasized that the coverage would not pull punches: “We’re going to call things like we see them. We think there’s real value in taking a stand.”
So what about that business model? As Temple noted, there aren’t that many business models out there to chose from. Unlike most media sites, this will be a member site that people “value and will pay for.” He added “advertising would not be a key focus for us.”
Peer should be launching early next quarter, so we’ll be able to see more of these ideas in action soon. But it’s clear that the site– or “news service” as it prefers to call itself– is taking a markedly different approach from old and what we consider “new” media right now.
And with the benefit of some of these details, it seems less out of step for Omidyar to be starting this company. EBay, after all, was one of the first sites to powerfully leverage community on the Web, pioneering a lot of the systems of trust and reputation we still use today.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Thunder Lizard by Mike Maples Jr.
Thunder Lizard by Mike Maples Jr. from Adeo Ressi on Vimeo.
A talk by Mike Maples Jr. of Maples Investments at the Future of Funding conference hosted by TheFunded.com on February 18th, 2010. Midway through the video, the camera switches to lower quality.
Cool Silly '我飛'，華納威秀演出 10/30/2009
Cool Silly is a Taiwanese-American mainstream pop trio consisting of producer/singer Tone (仲維軍), singer/composer Rayray (劉軒蓁) and rapper/actor Leeway (藍力威). The trio was created in late 2009 upon winning a national songwriting competition in Taiwan. Cool Silly’s song ‘Fly’ is the official 2010 Taipei Flora International Exposition theme song. All lyrics, music, and musical arrangement in Cool Silly’s songs are written and performed by its three members.
Cool Silly（傻酷樂團）於2009年成立，是華語流行音樂風格的華僑的三人組。 由製作人也是歌手的仲維軍(Tone), 第二屆中視《超級星光大道》的劉軒蓁(Rayray),以及是饒舌歌手同時又是演員的藍力威(Leeway)組成。Cool Silly 的歌曲 ‘我飛’ 是 2010 臺北國際花卉博覽會的花博創作曲。所有Cool Silly歌曲裡的詞/曲/編曲都是三位團員創作與演出的。
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Interesting New User Interface
10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.
Over a quarter-century ago, Xerox introduced the modern graphical user interface paradigm we today take for granted.
That it has endured is a testament to the genius of its design. But the industry is now at a crossroads: New technologies promise higher-bandwidth interaction, but have yet to find a truly viable implementation.
10/GUI aims to bridge this gap by rethinking the desktop to leverage technology in an intuitive and powerful way.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
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2009-10 跨年夜，台北捷運瞬間湧進非常多的人潮，其中，文湖線會不會當機，成了大家關注的話題。結果雖然當天沒有出狀況，但幾天之後竟然又傳出「煞車卡鉗」，緊急疏散了兩百名乘客。
從去年七月四號到現在，文湖線已經通車滿半年，這半年來文湖線總共故障一百多次，平均每一點五天，就故障一次。很多市民都以為，文湖線頻頻故障，是因為之前的馬特拉和現在的龐巴迪，兩種系統的整合出現問題。其實，龐巴迪是用自己的系統直接取代馬特拉的系統，所以並沒有兩種系統整合的問題。現在包括台北市議會和監察院，都已經開始對文湖線展開調查。
從民國八十五年木柵線通車到現在，台北市捷運局已經累積十幾年的工程經驗，為什麼這條文湖線還會狀況連連呢？原來捷運局這次首度引進一種新的控制系統，所有列車的訊息都是靠無線電傳輸，一旦訊號中斷，列車會馬上緊急煞車。偏偏龐巴迪之前對這套系統的經驗，只有做過距離比較短的機場接駁列車。像文湖線這種二十五公里的長距離路線，還沒有足夠的時間測試，台北市政府卻在半年前決定搶先通車。這是不是一項拿市民當白老鼠的決策冒險呢？本報導請大家一起來回顧，文湖捷運的180天。
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
TheDisappearingMale
TheDisappearingMale-CBC_512kb.mp4
44:18 - 1 year ago
The Disappearing Male is a CBC documentary about one of the most important, and least publicized, issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system. The last few decades have seen steady and dramatic increases in the incidence of boys and young men suffering from genital deformities, low sperm count, sperm abnormalities and testicular cancer. At the same time, boys are now far more at risk of suffering from ADHD, autism, Tourette's syndrome, cerebral palsy, and dyslexia. The Disappearing Male takes a close and disturbing look at what many doctors and researchers now suspect are responsible for many of these problems: a class of common chemicals that are ubiquitous in our world. Found in everything from shampoo, sunglasses, meat and dairy products, carpet, cosmetics and baby bottles, they are called "hormone mimicking" or "endocrine disrupting" chemicals and they may be starting to damage the most basic building blocks of human development.
BC Hydro Sustainable Dance Floor
Leila Pejman is joined by Simi Heer as she checks out one of the coolest features at the BC Hydro Power Smart Village, BC Hydro's 2010 Olympic Pavilion - Club Energy, which features a dance floor that actually generates electricity as people dance on top of it.
Leila Pejman makes some trouble at the Expression Wall, a digital graffiti wall at the BC Hydro Power Smart Village, BC Hydro's Pavilion for the 2010 Winter Games.
GetConnected : [03-18-10 8:00 PM]
http://watch.bnn.ca/getconnected/clip277687#clip277687
GetConnected : [03-18-10 8:00 PM]
GetConnected
On this week's episode of GetConnected, we look at the Klipsch Image S4i Earbuds, some of the newest features on the iPhone 3GS, check out an ultra-thin laptop from Certified Data and look at Google Android running on the HTC Magic and Dream.
GetConnected : [03-18-10 8:00 PM]
GetConnected
On this week's episode of GetConnected, we look at the Klipsch Image S4i Earbuds, some of the newest features on the iPhone 3GS, check out an ultra-thin laptop from Certified Data and look at Google Android running on the HTC Magic and Dream.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Start an Organic Farm
Nicolas Donck is one of the pioneer farmers who helped to set up the Morningside Farmers' Market in Atlanta ten years ago. Learn about his farm and what he does.
Free Bike Lending Library
A student-led bike library opened Sept. 24 at the University of Denver (DU) offering high-tech bikes on loan for free, and a glimpse of the citywide bike sharing program that gets rolling next spring. The free DU lending library is open to all students, faculty and staff using the same bikes that will dot the city landscape in early 2010.
Big Green Initiatives - IBM
Today IBM (NYSE: IBM) opened a new data center designed to support new compute models like cloud computing, to help clients from around the world operate smarter businesses, organizations and cities. The new data center reduces technology infrastructure costs and complexity for clients while improving quality and speeding the deployment of services – using only half the energy required of a similar facility its size. The data center will ultimately total 100,000 square feet.
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer tours Ioxus
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer toured Ioxus on February 15, 2010 to discuss future growth. Schumer secured $1,427,250 used to save jobs and expand our workforce.
Solar-Powered Water Purifier
WWF has selected Solvatten, a solar-powered water purifier, as a 'Climate Solver', recognizing this Swedish invention's potential to reduce green-house gas emissions. Given the number of people worldwide currently treating their water by boiling with firewood, WWF estimates that, with widespread distribution, Solvatten could be reducing CO2 emissions by 26 million tonnes per year by 2020. The use of Solvatten can reduce dependence on firewood and other fuels, since it uses the sun's rays.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
When your calendar is a moral document: A conversation with Reverend Jim Wallis
When your calendar is a moral document: A conversation with Reverend Jim Wallis
The CEO of the social-justice organization Sojourners discusses the imperative for rethinking values in the wake of the economic downturn.
JANUARY 2010
At this year’s World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, the topic of corporate ethics and personal values will take on marquee status as one of the six highlighted pillars of the 2010 meeting. Reverend Jim Wallis—author, CEO of the social-justice organization Sojourners, and Davos veteran—has helped drive the change that moved the issue of values to the core of this year’s discussions. In this video interview, Wallis reflects on the opportunity that the crisis affords for reestablishing ethics in our lives and in the marketplace. He also shares some of his Davos experiences and notes how his conversations with CEOs there about ethics in business helped set the stage for his latest book, Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street—A Moral Compass for the New Economy. McKinsey Publishing’s Rik Kirkland spoke with Wallis in Washington, DC.
Managing water strategically: An interview with the CEO of Rio Tinto
Managing water strategically: An interview with the CEO of Rio Tinto
Tom Albanese explains how Rio Tinto is adapting its operations to a future when climate change may make the world’s dry parts drier and wet parts wetter.
JANUARY 2010
Water management has become a strategic issue for Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest mining groups, whose operations tend to be located in areas that are either arid or plagued by torrential rains. In this video interview, CEO Tom Albanese discusses the economics of water, the role of climate change, and how Rio Tinto is adapting its operations and seeking to make water management a source of advantage. Bill Javetski, an editor with the McKinsey Publishing group, conducted the interview with Tom Albanese in Durham, North Carolina.
Reshaping business education in a new era
Reshaping business education in a new era
Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, discusses how the expectations of MBA students are changing—and why the traditional MBA education needs to change as well.
JANUARY 2010
Source: Strategy Practice
This is a Conversation Starter, one in a series of invited opinions on topical issues. Watch the video, then share your thoughts by commenting below.
With rising interest in corporate social responsibility and increasing doubt in the sanctity of institutions, an evolving breed of MBA student is surveying the business landscape with a more discerning eye and demanding a new type of education. One person who feels this shift acutely is Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Sheppard has a prime view of this maelstrom of forces—changing expectations from students, different contours of global business, new management issues for educational institutions—and a unique perspective on what these portend for business students and business schools alike. He spoke in New York with McKinsey Quarterly editor Allen Webb about where MBA education stands in the wake of the financial crisis, and where he thinks it’s headed.
Eric Mead: The magic of the placebo
Sugar pills, injections of nothing -- studies show that, more often than you'd expect, placebos really work. At TEDMED, magician Eric Mead does a trick to prove that, even when you know something's not real, you can still react as powerfully as if it is. (Warning: This talk is not suitable for viewers who are disturbed by needles or blood.)
Monday, March 15, 2010
UC Berkeley special events, interviews, and lectures featuring distinguished faculty and guests.
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events.php?group=Distinguished+Innovator+Lecture+Series
webcast.berkeley: UC Berkeley Events
UC Berkeley special events, interviews, and lectures featuring distinguished faculty and guests. To view these events as webcasts visit webcast.berkeley.edu. Full course lectures available, too.
webcast.berkeley: UC Berkeley Events
UC Berkeley special events, interviews, and lectures featuring distinguished faculty and guests. To view these events as webcasts visit webcast.berkeley.edu. Full course lectures available, too.
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