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Thanks, Jenny!
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SXSWi is just around the corner (March 9-13). There is so much activity in Austin, I can’t begin to cover it all. Since I won’t be going this year I’ll be eavesdropping via Twitter! You can too: here’s a log of all #SXSWi activity. Dive in!
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There are lots of tweets going on at the AIGA PIVOT Design conference. If you want to go back later and see the stuff you missed here is the live blog recap starting on Saturday, October 15, 2011.
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Today is the last day of #SXSWi 2011. I’m home now but don’t want to miss a thing. That said, I’ve set up one last live blog. This will archive all #sxsw and #sxswi tweets for the next 24 hours.
Now at least we can pretend I’m there and look up something later if needed. Enjoy!
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When I think about world change I don’t immediately think of Zappos, the online shoe store. But after reading Tony Hsieh new book, Delivering Happiness, I can’t believe I missed this association. Tony and co have built an amazing company culture as shown here and here.
They’ve intentionally designed a culture that encourages and supports their people to seek happiness at work. They didn’t set out to be a poster child for the most awesome company to work for but that’s what they’ve built with their core values.
They set out to be honest, supportive, and people focused. They value transparency, personal growth and information sharing. If you haven’t heard, they also offer each new employee $2,000 to quit. So obviously the goal is to hire people who are committed. By not focusing on money and by focusing instead on people and passion they’ve turned out to to be hugely profitable.
One of the core pieces of their company culture is the Zappos employee handbook, which I would love to see. It has a quote from every single employee. And the book is not edited (save for minor typos). It’s an honest look, both good and bad, at the company and how the employees view their own company. Don’t you wish your company had one or that you read one before you accepted your last job offer?
Ultimately, the company wants people to be happy. They have a culture that people want to join. They’ve built something that is bigger than even their own company. They’ve tapped into the world change movement and continue to inspire people and companies to find their own happiness. Bravo.
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Recently, I spoke about a pro bono project we worked on here at Fervor Creative. The video of that speech is now available online.
The event is called PechaKucha, which means “chit chat” in Japanese. These social gatherings are held all over the world and bring the creative community together for about a dozen fast-pased mini-talks. The Phoenix attendees were friendly, excited and easy-going. Luckily, there was beer on hand which added to the unique speech-giving atmosphere.
I’m happy that Phoenix has brought this event to our community. It’s not often that we as designers, architects, city planners, artists, librarians and students gather, get up on stage, and share our work in a supportive atmosphere.
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-Lonnie
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In college I tried to take all of my electives first. I knew I would eventually turn to design but I wanted to experience the largest range of classes possible.
I didn’t know the effect that would have on my life at the time I exposed myself to so many new subjects, but it’s one of the college experiences that had a fundamental change to my perspective and views on life.
I took a gymnastics class. I was afraid to do it when I was younger. But I learned self-confidence and gained physical strength. And I took courses unfamiliar to me like world religions, islamic studies, asian art history, yoga, voice classes, and power volleyball. I studied French, Japanese, and Spanish.
Someone summed up why I was doing this when he said this from his own experience, “I majored in religious studies because I want to see the world from other people’s point of view. I want to see things on their terms and not force them to see the world like I do.”
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The bathrooms had images projected onto them and showed through icon illustrations just how long someone was in each specific port-a-potty. I wasn’t having that so I trekked elsewhere for those private matters.
The bar counted how many drinks were being served and projected it above the bartenders. The main dance area had a projection of party photos that were taken at the back of the venue. There were kiosks that could swap electronic business cards for partygoers (though it was unnecessary if you have Bump on your iPhone or any of the dozens of other sharing apps).
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