On last night's #twchat, we talked Collaboration - both on and offline. Given the arena, online collaboration was the real key to the conversation. We talked about how the barriers to effective collusion change online. Without a number of interpersonal cues, we need to be a ...
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Notes from #twchat – Nomenclature! And Names!
This week's #twchat focused on names, naming, and all things "identification." I apologize for the brevity of this week's notes - due to some scheduling issues, I wasn't able to pay thorough attention to the chat. Which means - more room for you to weigh in! Let's talk naming! It ...
Notes from #twchat – Bringing Ideas to Completion
Author's Note: These are my notes from #twchat done in much the same way as I post notes from #blogchat on Sundays, and as such will be missing pieces of the conversation. I try to be thorough, but you've got to maintain your point of view, right? ...
Advice On The Fly
You know what there's a lack of? Advice on the fly. In the shuffle to become more politically correct, we've child-proofed the world instead of world-proofing the child (so to speak) and seem to have disallowed casual advice. The kind you get when you mention something to ...
Secret Weapons – The Morgue File
No, this isn't a new murder mystery. The Morgue File is where ideas go when they die. Lots of artists have them - whether they use a different term or not - sometimes it's a pile of canvases in the corner, other times it's ...
Someone stole your toolbox – what do you do?
You've been using it for years. Every tool in your kit has your name on it - even if you're not a fiend with a labeler, people know the kinds of work you do, the kind of quality you produce. An integral part of that quality comes from knowing your tools, knowing what they can ...