I'm off for the annual Indian Market at Santa Fe, the biggest juried contest of Native American art in the world. It's put on by SWAIA, the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, a remarkable organization of volunteers. In an era... ...

Lot's of big Fall events coming up. One of the best is BIF--the Business Innovation Factory People come and tell 15 minute stories about innovation. I'll be co-hosting this year at the conference, which starts Oct. 15 and goes through... ...

I get dozens of PR releases a day and usually dump them but this one from R/GA is intriguing so I thought I'd share. R/GA, remember, worked with Nike to create one of the most successful and important social media... ...

I'm having a strange sense of displacement. A momentus event is taking place in China that most of the world is watching live but I can't because a legacy network has paid lots of money to stop Americans from accessing... ...

Flying to business meetings and conferences is not only hugely expensive these days, it is hugely polluting. Yes, I know that TED, the World Economic Forum and the Oscars are all "carbon neutral," meaning that they pay people in poor... ...

Procter & Gamble is one of the 25 companies that make up the S&P/Business Week Global Innovation Index and it's strong fiscal fourth quarter showing in sales and profits reflect it's dedication to innovation. When I last talked to CEO... ...

Read this: http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html And thanks to Seth Godin for pointing this out.... ...

An economic crisis can be a crucible that forges new innovations in business operations or they can lead companies to make dumb mistakes that destroy them as they rush blindly to survive. We're beginning to see corporations move into one... ...

In the deluge of new applications for the iPhone in recent days, a number of apps for education are worth considering. There are lots of folks who think the cell phone, not the laptop computer, is the platform for transforming... ...

Starbucks needs some innovation and not just a makeover. It needs serious business model innovation as well as a significant redesign of its space. Pentagram's Jim Biber has a terrific piece out in Architect magazine that is insightful, honest and... ...