When a friend told me that OpenIDEO was doing a project on renewable energy, I called up Kevin Tibbs, the co-founder and "mad skills scientist" at Better Life, a natural cleaning product company based in St. Louis.
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Read MoreInspired by my recent love affair with Twitter, I decided to use tweets as a unit of length. So I set out to translate “60 seconds of talking” into “__ tweets’ worth of content”.
Read MoreWhile we all know how to enjoy a good yarn, it's quite another thing to craft one. In this Microtalk, I share a simple framework I've learned for crafting engaging stories.
Read MoreI thought I'd jump into the fray of Apple product speculation with an illustration of John Gruber's guess at new iPhone displays.
Read MoreDiagramming action helps sort out different story elements. The actantial model highlights the distinct roles played by different elements in the story. In this diagram, you can see that each role is played by a different character.
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