Jay Heyman is an idea guy. His book on the topic, All You Need is a Good Idea!: How to Create Marketing Messages that Actually Get Results, pulls back the curtain on the idea creation process, to reveal why a "good" idea is so much more valuable than a "great" idea. As part of Paul Williams' Idea Sandbox virtual book tour, I had the opportunity to read about Jay Heyman's experiencees and playful opinions on the world of ideas.
I was, indeed, in Texas during South by Southwest. However, I was nowhere near Austin, and played with lots of fun nieces and nephews (all under the age of six) doing fun things like wrasslin', fishin', watching bronco ridin' and mutton bustin' at the Houston Rodeo. I didn't Tweet or Bleep all week. It was awesome. Fortunately, there were enough Bloggers and Twitters and Visual Facilinators @sxsw to capture every angle. Check out these moleskin sketches by Austin Kleon (above) and Mike Rohde.
Speakers and seminar leaders don't need to know everything. Steve Davis of FacilitatorU.com shares insights on how to engage participants as a facilitator... rather than facilitating through speechifying!
To understand where the compulsion to doodle comes from, the first thing you need to do is look more closely at what happens to the brain when it becomes bored.
Music video for Tanya Davis' song Art by Andrea Dorfman.
This interactive "honeycomb" diagram was generated from publicly available data on the breakdown of the Federal stumulus package.
Develop your personal drawing abilities by following this collection of 40 great tutorials on advanced drawing techniques, including general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art and some methods for transforming your creations into digital format.
Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they're done.
Another manifestation of the latest trend in experts + whiteboards + video, NPR's Marketplace guru explains complex economic trands, terms and causes of the current crisis--as if you wanted to hear more!
This graphic facilitator has been off-the-road and home-with-kids for a couple of years. But she grabbed the closest avaialble drawing tools and captured the speech! (Send your version to peter@alphachimp.com)