Gary Vaynerchuk, the New York Times bestselling author of Crush It! and creator of Wine Library TV, discusses his new book The Thank You Economy. This bold and expansive look at the evolution of today’s marketplace reveals the essential factors defining and driving successful relationships between businesses and consumers. In this groundbreaking book, Vaynerchuk — one of Bloomberg Businessweek‘s “20 People Every Entrepreneur Should Follow” — looks beyond a numbers — based analysis to explore the value of social interactions in building our economy.
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Gary Vaynerchuk Podcasts The Thank You Economy
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Peter Skillman on Innovating the Mobile Experience
ZURB was truly hopping at last Friday, with our largest ZURBsoapbox turnout ever for Peter Skillman’s talk. We loved having one last heart to heart with the man who’s all over the internet these days before he jumped on the plane to start his new job at Nokia. Peter left all of us with some great lessons learned for creating awesome mobile experiences.
http://www.zurb.com/article/438/-podcast-of-peter-skillmans-talk-on-innov
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DocArchive: Assignment: Total Recall - The Toyota Story
Toyota, the world’s biggest car company, is in crisis, accused of putting the public at risk by selling cars that could potentially accelerate out of control. A company respected for years for its core principles, its reputation is now badly damaged. Justin Rowlatt asks how this happened and whether Toyota can recover.
Tagged with toyota cars safety consumer automobile japan automotive quality regulation business
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The Digital Era: What’s Next?
Learn what you need to know now to keep your competitive edge! Entertainment and technology expert Mark Ghuneim offers a crash course on how digital technologies are transforming the media industry. After 16 years at Sony Music USA, Ghuneim launched Wiredset, a digital marketing agency and technology incubator for TV networks, record labels, and brands. He also founded the social media tracking and data visualization service, Trendrr.
The discussion is moderated by Jack Myers, one of the media industry’s leading visionaries and economic forecasters. Learn how phenomena like social communities, user-generated content, commercial-avoidance technologies, and performance-based media have changed the rules. Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Location: New York, NY, The New School,
Program and discussion: http://fora.tv/2009/10/06/Digital_Era_What_s_Nextr
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Matt Webb - Opening keynote: Escalante
The long run to the turn of the millennium got us preoccupied with conclusions. The Internet is finally taken for granted. The iPhone is finally ubiquitous computing come true. Let’s think not of ends, but dawns: it’s not that we’re on the home straight of ubicomp, but the beginning of a century of smart matter. It’s not about fixing the Web, but making a springboard for new economies, new ways of creating, and new cultures.
The 21st century is a participatory culture, not a consumerist one. What does it mean when small teams can be responsible for world-size effects, on the same playing field as major corporations and government? We can look at the Web - breaking down publishing and consuming from day zero - for where we might be heading in a world bigger than we can really see, and we can look at design - playful and rational all at once - to help us figure out what to do when we get there.
http://www.webdirections.org/resources/matt-webb-opening-keynote-escalante/
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Jared Spool: Revealing Design Treasures from the Amazon
The audio was recorded at An Event Apart Seattle 2009. The session description was as follows:
On its surface, Amazon.com just seems like a large e-commerce site, albeit a successful one. Its design isn’t flashy, nor is it much to write home about. But deep within its pages are hidden secrets — secrets that every designer should know about.
If one looks closely at what the team at Amazon has built, it’s filled with innovative functionality and clever designs, all of which creates a delightful experience for its users and directly produces regular profits for its shareholders. But not all is perfect. Some design changes in the last few years have not been the success that the team had hoped for. Amazon’s exceptional qualities and imperfections are critical knowledge for any designer that wants to dig deep into what makes the site tick.
In this entertaining presentation, Jared will share some of UIE’s latest research into the hidden treasures of (the) Amazon. You’ll learn:
- The simple Yes/No question that increased revenues by more than $1 billion
- The elegant subtlety of Amazon’s security system
- Why Amazon’s business model is more than meets the eye (and why designers need to care) The wins and losses that Amazon has had with social media functionality
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Lunar Design - Behold Beauty
Expressions - May 28, 2009: How can design tap into our emotional wiring, stop us in our tracks and create responses in us? An exploration we did at Lunar, loosely based on Don Norman’s Emotional Design, looked at how design can make us stop and think, stop and act, and stop and behold.
In this episode, Lunar’s John Edson, Jeff Smith and Becky Brown talk about this last dimension — the beauty dimension of "stop and behold" — and how it turns out to be the most elusive power of design.
http://iconocast.typepad.com/iconocast/2009/05/behold-beauty.html
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How to Make Excellent Products: A Soapbox Podcast with LukeW
LukeW’s no stranger to lighting fires – as Senior Director of Product Iteration at Yahoo! Luke overseas the world’s most trafficked web page, the Yahoo! homepage. Luke came over to ZURB to talk to us about what it takes to make excellent products.
http://www.zurb.com/article/233/how-to-make-excellent-products-a-soapbox-
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SXSW 09 - Interactive Beyond the Screen: Branding in Four Dimensions
This talk covers the future of brand and design innovation in an increasingly fragmented world. It’s not a discussion on new or emerging technologies, but rather a conversation about new and emerging mindsets.
Jamie Monberg, Hornall Anderson
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Compostmodern ‘08: Adam Webach
Adam Webach, CEO Saatchi & Saatchi S, discusses the sustainability revolution (and WalMart as a force for change in product and cultural improvement).
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