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  • Redo the resume for shrinking attention spans

    How To Redesign Your Resume For A Recruiter’s 6-Second Attention Span By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com The average recruiter spends six seconds on your resume. So this is what you do. It’s fright­en­ing. You’ll spend most of your wak­ing life at a job, yet, accord­ing to a new study by The­Lad­ders, the aver­age recruiter spends just…

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  • Photograph your entire life

    A Wearable Camera That Photographs Your Entire Life By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Microsoft’s cult-favorite SenseCam technology is reborn in a new, consumer- friendly package. One of the coolest things to come out of Red­mond was Microsoft’s Sense­Cam. It was a wear­able cam­era that took thou­sands of pic­tures of your daily… http://flpbd.it/zqJYU Related articles Wearable cameras…

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  • Digital agencies learn to design culture

    How Agencies Can Hack Culture for Brand Insights Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com Pic­ture this: you’re in a meet­ing in which your team is chal­lenged to come up with ideas that tap into trends and pop cul­ture. Every­one at the table nods in agree­ment. Cul­ture! Yes. Impor­tant. Check. Two weeks later, only vague (if any)… http://flpbd.it/TWevT…

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  • Nano house: small building innovation

    Nano House: Innovations for Small Dwellings [Hardcover] Cristina Paredes Benitez, amazon.com “Pro­vides a fine sur­vey for archi­tects, design­ers, and home­own­ers alike.” (The Mid­west Book Review ) “ Small is sex­i­er. ” (Details ) Phyl­lis Richard­son is an archi­tec­ture and design writer who has pub­lish… http://flpbd.it/Hw95F Related articles Nano conference now includes Kaloyeros, other NanoCollege officials…

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  • Engineering language is the key to branding across culture

    Need Branding That Transcends Cultures? Invent Your Own Language By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A thoughtful identity gives a multinational disease research network a new way to communicate. Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty’s Clin­i­cal Research Unit is an 11-year-old net­work of groups that coop­er­ate to track and pre­vent infec­tious dis­eases, fro… http://flpbd.it/XD4bv Related articles geordie shore cast are surprise…

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  • Better Transportation Options=Healthier Lives – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

      rwjf.org The NewPub­licHealth Nation­al Pre­ven­tion Strat­e­gy series is under­way, includ­ing inter­views with Cab­i­net Sec­re­taries and their Nation­al Pre­ven­tion Coun­cil designees, explor­ing the impact of trans­porta­tion, edu­ca­tion and… http://flpbd.it/6afL5 Better Transportation Options=Healthier Lives – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Related articles Why do Republican governors hate our veterans? (dailykos.com) Wong: Transportation and good health (wickedlocal.com) Patient-centered…

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  • Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder

    Eric Markowitz, inc.com Inc.com staff Don’t get an MBA. Don’t even learn to code. If you really want to start a great company, hone your design skills. Reams have been writ­ten about the impor­tance of founders that can code—or, in Sil­i­con Val­ley par­lance, the… http://flpbd.it/5lhZ9 Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder Related articles Silicon…

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  • Ubi monitors home and chores

    A Computer You Can Talk To Monitors Your Home And Helps With Chores BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com The Ubi, a ubiquitous computer you plug into a socket, can do things like read you your email or tell you the temperature in the room. All you have to do is ask. You prob­a­bly have at least…

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  • Why pirates make the best change agents according to Steve Jobs

    An HR Lesson From Steve Jobs: If You Want Change Agents, Hire Pirates By Peter Sander, fastcodesign.com Why? Because pirates can operate when rules and safety nets break down. [The fol­low­ing is an excerpt from What Would Steve Jobs Do?: How the Steve Jobs Way Can Inspire Any­one to Think Dif­fer­ent­ly and Win by Peter…

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  • Disruptive ideas to fix our cities

    5 Outside-The-Box Ideas To Change U.S. Cities For The Better BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com The Mayor’s Challenge is a contest run by Bloomberg Philanthropies to find the best ideas bubbling out of our cities—from data mining to turning foreclosed houses into urban farms. It’s a theme that we’ve touched on over and over at Co.Exist:……

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  • Health 2.0: this year will be all about big data

    Health 2.0 Conference: Big Data Making A Big Impact Richard MacManus, readwrite.com At the end of the Health 2.0 Con­fer­ence ear­li­er this month, I sat down with the event’s co-founders Matthew Holt and Indu Sub­aiya to dis­cuss the big trends. I’d been impressed and excit­ed by the inno­va­tion demon­strat­ed at Health 2.0. It… http://flpbd.it/sqjx2 Related…

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  • Klout and other ways to measure your influence

    Beyond Klout: Better Ways To Measure Social Media Influence Adam Popescu, readwrite.com Mea­sur­ing social influ­ence online is becom­ing a more sophis­ti­cat­ed, refined and gran­u­lar process. While the much-maligned early leader in the mar­ket, Klout, has scooped up a lot of head­lines over the past few years, there’s a bet­ter… http://flpbd.it/7Qp5t Related articles Is Klout Gaining…

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