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How to do lean planning

by Farrah Bostic May 23, 2011 planning

This was what I presented at #planningness last week.  The attendees were awesome – great energy, great ideas, loads of curiosity oozing out of everyone.  Thanks to everyone who indulged me, and to Mark and Claire for making it possible.

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innovation & serendipity via Noah Brier

by Farrah Bostic April 12, 2010 innovation

Definitely worth a read-through, probably worth seeing delivered in person.  Noah’s been thinking a lot about this, and it comes through in the way this is constructed. So worth thinking about invention – particularly as the response to an inflection point between a need and no known/adequate/optimal solution.  And of course critical to make prototypes, [...]

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the start of something good

by Farrah Bostic March 23, 2010 prototyping

ran across this yesterday in the twitscape, don’t remember where – will try to track back and give credit where it’s due. anyway it’s Jonah Peretti of BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post and Contagious Media, so it’s of course worth a look (she says, winking, because she never heard of him before now). it’s a choose your adventure twitter game. [...]

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can we all just focus on making better stuff?

by Farrah Bostic March 10, 2010 prototyping

There’s loads of talk about the future of everything – of newspapers, of advertising, of brands, of music.  most of the time what we’re really talking about is the future of the business models behind those things.  Here are the platitudes I find I constantly repeat: People don’t buy newspapers because they really want to [...]

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Prototyping in Public

by Farrah Bostic March 5, 2010 prototyping

I attended an event for the UO Alumni group here in NYC last night that was theoretically about “Journalism and Media in the Digital Age.”  Jodi Kahn from iVillage and Carlos Lamadrid from Woman’s Day, and Tim Gleason, the Dean of the Journalism School at the UO were the panelists. This is not a review [...]

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