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Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures and the blog AVC.com) posted this video from the recent 99% Conference where Jack Dorsey (one of the founders of Twitter and the new startup Slide) discusses drawing your ideas, prototyping, bringing a product to market and knowing when to quit.

Jack Dorsey: 3 Keys to Twitter's Success from 99% on Vimeo.

http://www.crickettrailer.com/

Filed under design inspiration.

Advertising or content or event? All of the above. Beautiful happening.

It’s 28 minutes long and worth every second.

This is former Disney Imagineer and Carnegie Mellon University Professor (and author of the Art of Game Design), Jesse Schell giving the “Design Outside the Box” presentation at the DICE conference in Feb 2010. Covering topics like Facebook games that are based on behavioral/psychological triggers as gameplay, what if Game Designers were involved in things like loyalty programs, achievements and points, what happens when out sensors are tracking and watching what we are doing and a lot more.

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Dorian “Paisano” Carta has a great breakdown on WebWorkerDaily of some of the best Social Media monitoring tools out there:

http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/03/11/roundup-social-media-monitoring-tools/

Now these are just tools. You need people and thinking and commitment to make them WORK. Like anything worthwhile in life, what you put into it, you get out of it. With these kinds of tools though, its even more critical to spend the time to EXPERIMENT, TEST AND REFINE.

Radian6 is an amazing platform, but it isn’t magic – you need to do work to make it work. You need to be LISTENING as well as constantly refining what you are listening for. It can’t find data if you don’t give it parameters to work from – which means, if you don’t spend the time to properly configure it (or any other social listening package), you might miss something.

And it is not the tool’s fault.

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

JESS3 designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010.

“Man in Blue”, a Brooklyn street scene I shot this weekend with a Flip HD camera mounted to the window of an MTA bus.

This is an old negative, from college days filled with hours in the darkroom. It’s one in a series of three images of hundreds of old television tubes. One of my new year’s promises to myself was to get back in the darkroom, and I chose to print these first; call it nostalgia if you like. It’s original context was a more or less sophomoric rail against mainstream media.

Years later, shortly after the Incredible Hulk tie debacle on the House floor, a friend pointed out that my kitchen was the internet, as the series of tubes was hung on the wall there. Now, I prefer to see the photos as a premonition of my career shepherding media to the internet.  And a reminder that most things improve with age.

We all love TED talks here at collectivecontext. As thinking folks (and strategy/design/video/technology geeks), the variety and quality of the presentations is amazing.

Dan Pink spoke in Oxford last year to talk about Motivation and how social scientists know a lot more about how to get people moving.

“Contingent motivators ‘if you do this, then you get that’ work in some circumstances, but for a lot of tasks they either don’t work or often they do harm. This is one of the most robust findings in Social Science and also the most ignored”.

“Reward by their very nature, narrow our focus, concentrate the mind.”

“And the good news about all of this is that the scientists who’ve been studying motivation have given us this new approach. It’s an approach built much more around intrinsic motivation. Around the desire to do things because they matter, because we like it, because they’re interesting, because they are part of something important. And to my mind, that new operating system for our businesses revolves around three elements: autonomy, mastery and purpose. Autonomy, the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery, the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose, the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses. “