These are the slides from my presentation to ISACA and IAA (the Chicago chapters of national Internal Auditor and IT Governance organizations). The goal of my presentation was to point out the necessity of developing a company-wide social media policy based on these main observations:
- Employees are the new marketing department
- Marketing is now Communications; Conversations/Engagement
- While the adoption rate is high (and growing), most companies don’t have a policy

Similar to an ecologist pointing out that the culprits of bad-recycling-habits are actually the manufacturers who create all the packaging, NOT the consumer who is then left with the rubbish to dispose of, if we want to figure out “why brevity?” we need to focus on the people/places/things who say that messages, “are too long,” as we cave to this demand and chop-up our daily language into sound-bites via Facebook, Twitter, email, etc.

Mayor James M. Baker of Wilmington DE, speaking at the GCECS2009 this past Tuesday, made a striking point. To paraphrase he said: This isn’t a recession. It’s a total collapse, a time for a restructuring. It’s a hard pill to swallow, but a restructuring of how you run your business might be the necessary medicine, especially for creative professionals, small businesses, freelancers, etc.

No links for 10/05 – 10/07/09, we’re in lovely Philadelphia soaking up the intelligence being shared at the Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit. LINK

During filmmaker Astra Taylor’s interview with philosopher Avital Ronell they touch on photography and film as a capturing, an archiving, and a deadening. If an artist can more deeply understand what makes their work “good” ideally they can make their work even better.

Links for 10/02/09
Does online fashion Mag fly16×9 have it right? The end of still fashion imagery; make short films. LINK
Bra That Turns Into Gas Mask Wins Ig Nobel Prize. LINK
Save space, put your library under the stairs, better yet, make it a stairbrary. LINK
Loose-numbers on the wall = clock. LINK
Belgian Designer Bruno Pieters states, [...]

Links for 9/30/09
Ponoko.com, an industrial designers dream or nightmare? You design it, they make it. LINK
Freelance Designer Mark Pavey posts a Personal Manifesto. LINK
Rumor: Marc Jacobs signs on to all-gay “real housewives” show for MTV owned Logo (Sun-Sentinel). LINK
NYC has made access to the Manhattan bridge safer for bikes (Holiday Matinee). LINK
Ira Glass talks about [...]

Links for 9/29/09
Top 20 Designers in The Middle East and Africa (PSD TUTS+ via Joel Delanez): A sampling of design work. LINK
“Knitting is the New yoga” (Photographs don’t arouse me): What is new is that Craft meets the Web – people share, sell, shop and connect over crafting online. LINK
Are you on the Twitter blacklist? [...]

Links for 9/28/09
Obituary: Donald G. Fisher, 81; co-founded the Gap chain (LA Times): Fisher was a real estate developer when, at 41, he and his wife launched the firm in San Francisco. LINK
7 Habits of Highly Innovative People (Think Simple Now): …creativity is more about psychology than intellect, and there are no secrets to being [...]

Links for 9/25/09
The Ink Calendar (NerdLike): Check out the Ink Calendar, a project by Spanish designer Oscar Diaz, which uses the capillary action of ink to display the date. LINK

Zero magazine stole my image!!! (youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com): “…my italian friend found this magazine ‘Zero’ from Roma and sent me the above photos, and found my character design [...]