The Power of Context: Why Environment Changes Everything
Posted by junger - 10/10/06 at 05:10:37 pmSo many times you'll hear people say that they won't answer hypotheticals — the proverbial "What If?" question — because they don't know the situation, or how they would feel if they were in it.
While this response could easily be a way out of answering a difficult question, the basis behind it is solid: context matters. A lot.
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Why Audience Barriers Can (And Do) Work
Posted by junger - 10/10/06 at 11:10:37 amEveryday — at least the days when I can actually check my RSS feed — I stop by Ask MetaFilter, specifically the Work & Money category.
If you're not familiar with MetaFilter, it's a community blog-type site, with the Ask MetaFilter section specifically for user questions to the entire audience.
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How to Do 43 Hours of Work in Only 24
Posted by junger - 10/06/06 at 10:10:21 amJust what Jack Bauer needs.
According to a survey from Yahoo! and OMD Worldwide, technology helps us regular folks pack 43 hours of work/activity into a 24 hour period. From watching TV while surfing the Internet to listening to the radio while blogging (shaving while driving?), we can get more done with technology.
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Geeking Out: Surviving a Slashdot Pickup
Posted by junger - 10/06/06 at 09:10:46 amAllow me to geek out for a moment here. I've written about the effect of a Slashdot pickup on your RSS feed — though yesterday's pickup of the 10 Ways to Immediately Start Saving Money by Get Rich Slowly almost got me to my RSS goal — but this a great story about one blogger who was able to handle the Slashdot effect on an old 466 PC.
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How Men's Shampoo Shows the Importance of Product Packaging
Posted by junger - 10/04/06 at 11:10:09 amProduct packaging — how a product is presented, and whom it is presented to — is arguably just as important as the product itself. We ideas folks like to think that ideas can do all the legwork, but it's simply not realistic.
In today's saturated product markets, great ideas will emerge — but if they aren't packaged correctly, penetration will take much longer necessary.
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