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		<title>Infographic as Advertisement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from vizthink.com. I had a chance to sit down for a brief conversation with Barry A. Martin, Principal at Toronto marketing communications firm, Hypenotic. One of Hypenotic’s long time clients is Fiesta Farms, Toronto’s largest independently owned grocery store. Hypenotic and Fiesta Farms have a long relationship of working together because of their likeminded philosophies. Fiesta Farms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Went to Work Naked on Monday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know those anxiety dreams where you find yourself at school in Grade 2 completely naked. That happened to me in real life this week at work, in a professional sense. I was running a strategy session for a client that was scheduled to start at 9am on Monday and I was there at 8 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.omakasegroup.com/blog/archives/639</link>
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		<title>Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Demand?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On July 30th Apple launched the iPhone 4 in Canada at its retail stores, its carrier partner stores and some third party retailers such as Best Buy, Wireless Wave, etc. Obviously they knew there was going to be pent up demand for the product despite the perceived (or actual) antenna issues. Sure enough, there were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.omakasegroup.com/blog/archives/624</link>
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		<title>Facilitation by Telepresence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having &#8220;grown up&#8221; as a face-to-face event designer, I&#8217;m naturally a little skeptical of the value of remote facilitation sessions. Trying to accomplish a lot on a conference call is very tough to do, especially if you use a lot of visual communication, as I am fond of doing. LiveMeeting or WebEx adds a bit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.omakasegroup.com/blog/archives/619</link>
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		<title>Citizenship as a &#8220;Mainframe&#8221; Model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently watched Eric Dishman&#8217;s TEDmed talk on ted.com where he presents his research from his work from Intel on healthcare. He posits that basic technology combined with a mindset shift about the what healthcare is, could radically improve seniors&#8217; quality of life. A basic example would be someone wearing a bracelet that has an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get With the Times, Retail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am completely drawn to Swipe bookstore on Richmond Street in Toronto. They sell books on design, architecture, marketing and other creative disciplines. It has a magnetic hold over me, yet the magnet seems to not disable my credit card for some reason. I was there yesterday with Tom Crawford. He has a device called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity: &#8220;Not Required&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to a large Canadian company about their possible need for facilitation consulting services. The person I was talking to is in HR and has &#8220;collaboration&#8221; in her portfolio. She suggested that her company would most likely not be in need of my services because the corporate frame of mind was one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Novatel MiFi: Cool Device for Remote Events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bell Canada is about to launch the Novatel MiFi 2372, a combination device that includes high speed wireless broadband on the HSPA network plus a wifi router plus an SD slot. For people who work collaborative events or conferences this is quite the all-in-wonder package. Internet service at conference centres can be really expensive or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.omakasegroup.com/blog/archives/564</link>
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		<title>Chris Messina and Open Web Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Centre for Social Innovation and Torch Partnership brought Chris Messina to Toronto for a 1 day workshop from which I learned quite a bit. Chris is a heavyweight, having co-founded BarCamp, developed the Flock browser and is now on the board of the OpenID Foundation. It was nice to have access to his brain for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.omakasegroup.com/blog/archives/548</link>
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		<title>Uffe Elbaek and the Project Paradox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 15th I had the pleasure of attending the latest Design with Dialogue session, hosted by Peter Jones of ReDesign Research and Greg Judelman of Bruce Mau Design. The special guest of the night was Uffe Elbaek, founder of KaosPilots and the CEO of the World Out Games in Copenhagen which took place this [...]]]></description>
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