MILTON GLASER DRAWS & LECTURES from C. Coy on Vimeo. I reached to my friends at Spork Design today to illustrate, not just design, a new project we’re working on.  I trust them because they are a few of the people I know that actually know how to draw, with a pencil in their own hand. Shortly...

Last week at TED, Jamie Oliver, the winner of the TED Prize,  gave a talk about how we are slowly killing our children (in America) through not educating them about basic things like how to prepare food.  He’s right.   We are a sickly obese nation. This, the first in a series of posts where...

Yesterday, my TEDxEast (New York) colleague and I hosted the first ever webinar in the TEDx Learning Series (that we coined) for TEDx organizers literally around the world.  Of course I was ambitious to take on my first webinar with such a broad audience, but our evaluations were off the charts, so...

Last Tuesday at TEDxColumbus, Reade Harpham, one of our most inspirational speakers asked us the question: What are you going to do about it?  As the organizer, I didn’t give it much thought until this morning, when I had time to actually do so, when I looked in my daughter’s trash can and...

I am very very impressed with the effort and success of Pelotonia this weekend.  Huge kudos to the entire effort.  As a cancer survivor and also active biker (not nearly as active as my 2 wheeling commuting husband), I hope to do it in future years as a tribute to those loved ones we’ve lost...

Harvard Business Review issued a fascinating study:  90% of those tweets out there are written by 10% of those on twitter.  I think I’ve become one of the 90% that don’t tweet much anymore.  I always think that if I had more time to apply one of the now 1000 applications, I’d become...

I’m working on an idea that involves TED, and needless to say, I’m energized by it.  TED is a terrific web site (and may I say culture?) where they claim “ideas worth spreading” through 18 minute talks, videotaped and posted.  By the way, do you still videotape in the digital...

While social media is still all the buzz, studies continue to show (despite what social media talking heads might want you to think) that email is still a trusted, proven way to communicate.  And it is critical to promote web sites and sustain loyalty to your opted-in communities of interest. But recently...

Yesterday, Lindey’s (German Village) sent me a request to be a friend on Facebook.  I’m only friends with people (and those I know and like), not businesses or organizations.  I thought that people had figured this one out, especially with many other bloggers out there posting notes like...

At Camp Akita last weekend, I attended the third annual creativity retreat.  I was refreshed on the principles that drive our industry and got refreshed from a big winter walk.  These sweet , lonely oars and life jackets reminded me of bulbs in the ground just waiting for a bit of spring to...