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Aug252010

Harvard Business Review on Graphic Facilitation

by AuthorAlphachimp Studio Inc. DateWednesday, August 25, 2010 at 3:42PM

Graphic recorder Stephanie Crowley depicts the central themes of the classic 1960 HBR article by Ted Levitt.

It's official: Graphic Facilitation lives!

I know this because the Harvard Business Review (aka. Ye Olde HBR) has published an article about graphic facilitators, examples of who uses our services, and the main point... our work can help businesses. 

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Friday
Aug202010

Plywood People: Interview with MailChimp CEO, Ben Chestnut

by AuthorAlphachimp Studio Inc. DateFriday, August 20, 2010 at 3:09PM

A man after my own heart... Ben had the gonadal circumference to name his service after a simian! We use MailChimp for our sporadic newsletters, too.


Within a year, Ben launched MailChimp, which grew alongside The Rocket Science Group.

MailChimp was a hit, and he started focusing exclusively on it in 2005. Since then, MailChimp has grown from 9,000 users to more than 400,000. 

MailChimp makes it easy to design and send beautiful emails, manage your subscribers and track your campaign’s performance. It takes powerful tools like segmentation, a/b testing and ROI tracking, and turns them into something anyone can use.

Ben’s interests include brand personality, monkeys and cars. His interests do not include golf.

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Friday
Aug062010

Videoblogging at the 15th Annual International Forum of Visual Practitioners

by AuthorAlphachimp Studio Inc. DateFriday, August 6, 2010 at 10:58AM
via flickr.com

 

LIVE from the Bay Area in California, and armed with a spanking new Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera, I have had a blast being both participant and videoblogger for this tribal gathering of scribes. 

Check out the results on http://www.graphicfacilitation.com!

Interested in learning more about IFVP... not to mention the 2011 conference in Hawaii(!)... then visit ifvp.org.

(Thanks CoBrandit, for tips on videoblogging conferences!) 

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Friday
Jul302010

Awesome PopTech Acceleration Goodness

by AuthorAlphachimp Studio Inc. DateFriday, July 30, 2010 at 2:11PM

Like the crazy Rube Goldberg machine in this OK GO video, PopTech is a wonderful, eclectic mash-up of disperate moving part performing in orchestrated chaos to bring something wonderful to the world.

Was that a stretch?

Irregardless, the PopTech team and vast network of volunteers, sponsors and partners have pulled together amazing gatherings, projects, conversations and programs that extend throughout the year.

Alphachimp Studio is proud to play a small part at these many gatherings, big and small. Most recently, we participated in the Ecomaterials Lab Innovation Lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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Monday
Jun142010

The Electric Scribe

by AuthorAlphachimp Studio Inc. DateMonday, June 14, 2010 at 9:26AM

The Electric Scribe from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.

Alphachimp Studio collaborated with a team of adventuresome creative partners to pull off live, electric scribing -- plus a trippy light show -- for 300 guests. This behind-the-scenes look at the show is set to wicked peppy music by Kevin O'Donnell's Quality Six.

FULL DISCLOSURE: We can't take credit for any of the incredible staging or brilliant technology... just showed up with a trusty MacBookPro, a Wacom tablet and a belly full of butterflies!

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Tuesday
May182010

Designers Respond to Crisis

by AuthorAlphachimp Studio Inc. DateTuesday, May 18, 2010 at 8:57AM

 This month, has been one of witnessing communities respond to catastrophe through information, art, and action.

Local artists, including our own Alicia Diane Durand, submitted designs for posters and t-shirts to benefit flood victims

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Friday
May142010

Social Crisis, Social Mapping & Social Change

by AuthorAlphachimp Studio Inc. DateFriday, May 14, 2010 at 12:02PM


Social Mapping for Social Change from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.

This week at at the Graham Foundation in Chicago, PopTech brought together three speakers (and a smart audience in this city of news aggregators and social good organizations) for a special salon event on the current and future impact of social mapping tools.

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Thursday
May062010

WARNING: Designers Tend to Fall Prey to Ideas!

by AuthorAlphachimp Studio Inc. DateThursday, May 6, 2010 at 4:32PM

"Designer vs. Dinosaur" by Lillian (6) and Peter (40)

Robert "Fabi G" Fabricant is inspiring jealousy (in me) by being in East Africa, blogging, and hobnobbing with the globally challenged superheroes and villains at the World Economic Forum.

His observations in his Fast Company post examine the long shadow cast by the rise of Design Thinking.

Specifically, Fabricant calls out the dirty little secret that designers--while clever, innovative and unafraid of funky footwear--don't actually know how to get stuff done within complex systems.

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Thursday
Apr292010

Diane Durand Illustrates A New Children's Book: My Brother, Autism, and Me

by AuthorAlicia Diane Durand DateThursday, April 29, 2010 at 10:34AM

My brother has autism. My mother told me so.
In case you’re not sure what that means, I’ll tell you what I know…

So begins My Brother – Autism – And Me, written by Aisha Pope and illustrated by Diane Durand.

This book for children tells one little boy’s story about the good (and some not-so-good) times of life in his family with his brother who has autism.

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Friday
Apr232010

Sketchbook Paintings of D.Fullerton

by AuthorAlphachimp Studio Inc. DateFriday, April 23, 2010 at 9:34PM

Great illustrations and paintings by David Fullerton (thanks Bruno!)http://bit.ly/9ivF4u

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