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Company Profile: Griot’s Garage – Masters in Car Care Products

April 9, 2011

This is not a car blog, but I like to feature companies that go above and beyond to build a relationship with its customers. In this edition, I’m proud to say I’m a lifetime customer of Griot’s Garage. I was introduced to Griot’s from a friend who’s a huge car cleaning fanatic. In every industry, [...]

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Borrowing 3G From Your iPhone to Use On Your iPad Wifi Only Model

April 7, 2011

If you own the wifi model of the iPad, you’re chained to anywhere there’s wifi. Fortunately, wifi is available almost anywhere, except when you’re away from a building or on the road. The new iOS 4.3 enables wifi hotspot on your iPhone which then allows you to tether your 3G to other wifi devices like [...]

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Google to build gigabit network for Kansas City to spur build out

April 2, 2011

Google has announced that it’s going to build a gigabit fiber network to nearly every home in Kansas City. See Google’s blog for more details. Consumer internet lines today are typically less than 20 megabits per second. That’s a cap, meaning your actual speed will be much less. Also remember that a bit is different [...]

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Why I’m going analog to learn better

March 27, 2011

There’s many studies out there on the difference between writing notes and typing notes. I’ve done both, primarily handwriting during my K-16 years, and typing in my graduate studies years. Anecdotally, I can say that I comprehended and remembered more when I wrote my notes by hand. My handwriting will never be able to capture [...]

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Visual Meetings – Using Technology and Graphic Facilitation Methods

February 23, 2011

Graphic facilitation and visual thinking is one of my personal interests. I’ve been reading up some a variety of topics. This community is very tight knit and there’s always a common set of players. One of them is Dave Sibbet of The Grove Consultants International. Below is a very detailed webinar (90 minutes). I’ve watched [...]

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An Infographic to Explain Infographics, the Universe Collapses on Itself

February 11, 2011

Infographics are fun. They visually stimulating and is very loud, bold, and sometimes obnoxious. However, good statistical and data principles still apply. Present the data objectively and fairly. Don’t create conclusions where none exist. However, infographics is to data as newpaper headlines are to news. Below is a fun poke at infographics by Think Brilliant. [...]

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Book Review: Gamestorming, an Amazing Collection of Practical and Useful Games to Generate Ideas, Solutions, and Strategies

February 10, 2011

In my search to learn more about visual thinking, visual note taking, and better idea facilitation, I came across Gamestorming (Amazon Affiliate Link). It’s written by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo. They even have a great blog and forum for all kinds of user experiences and examples. Gamestorming is about an innovation method to [...]

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Visual Recording and Notetaking on an iPad, Amazing Detailed Video How-To

February 9, 2011

I’ve always been amazed at the artists who can make incredible imagery on the iPad using just their fingers. Rachel Smith, now with The Grove International posted a wonderful video on how to use tools on the iPad to make visual notes and diagrams. She then posts in amazing details how she took her notes [...]

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