"Xigi.net seeks to document and catalyze the shift in investor mindset, where more deals are happening more quickly and more easily in fields from microfinance to low income housing to social enterprise to clean technology."
Here's a Christmas treat from the bloggers at CityRag. They found the Wikipedia list, taken from the 1994 book, of The 50 Greatest Cartoons by Amid Amidi. They located every cartoon (or almost every one) on YouTube and linked to them on one convenient page. Enjoy it while it lasts!
In this video segment broadcast on BBC Two profiles Julian Burton's work as a graphic recorder and map maker. The reporter also interviews one of Julian's clients, BAE Systems Regional Aircraft, a leading provider of regional aircraft and support services to regional airlines throughout the world, with over 1000 aircraft and more than 160 customers in 80 countries.
Cameron Foote is founder and editor and has forty years of industry experience including stints at small and large agencies, as creative director for a Fortune 500 firm, and running his own business.
His books,The Business Side of Creativity and The Creative Business Guide to Running a Graphic Design Business, are the industry's most authoritative, and best-selling business bibles. Nearly 40,000 copies have been sold.
What a great idea! Part poetry-slam, part Survivor, part designer cat-fight... At Cut & Paste, held at Crobar in Chicago, eight digital designers went head-to-head to see who could come up with the most intriguing concepts under a tight deadline and in front of a rowdy audience.
I am conducting a poll to gage the ease or difficulty that the graphic facilitation community has in describing what they do for a living. (Usually, I wind up telling people I doodle for dollars.)
From an article in the December eNewsletter from Neuland North America, makers of portable walls for facilitators and educators: an article by Steve Davis, a former electrical engineer turnedtrainer, facilitator, business and life coach, and infopreneur.
Mindmapping software ain't the newest squid on the dock. Packages such as MindJet, Mind Manager and Inspiration have been around for years. New players like MindApp and OminGraffle (for Mac) are crowding the playing field. But iMindMap is a package from the Grandaddy of MindMapLand... Tony Buzan.
PolyVision's Premium whiteboards and tackboards are designed for today's office and work environments. All whiteboard writing surfaces feature PolyVision's new e3 environmental ceramicsteel™ surface, the first and only ecologically intelligent whiteboard surface to be Cradle to Cradle™ Silver certified.
There have been a whole gaggle of new browsers nipping at Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple's Safari. Barely a year after Mozilla's Firefox began creeping into the mainstream, some of its developer broke off on a new browser project, Flock.