SoMaFusion :: travelogue

Here are some of the inspiring things that we found this week.

• Moving Brand’s pitch for the London Brand design (we also blogged about it)
• Inline Validation in Web Forms by Luke Wroblewski on A List Apart (*obviously* Manolis’ choice)
• The Secret of Johnny Depp’s Success by Mark McGuinness on Lateral Action (definetely some food for thought there – the discussion in the comments is also highly recommended)
• Learn Something Every Day (one of those AMAZING websites. Visit, learn, submit your own)
• Proactive Social Media: Filling the Information Space With Great Content guest post by Dr. Mark Drapeau on Brian Solis’ PR 2.0 (Lot’s of great ideas, for example: “Some tools are better than others for achieving different missions”)
• In Defense of the Punditocracy by Anil Dash on his blog (simply amazing food for thought)

Those with a little bit of distance from the petty politics of the tech world are uniformly astonished at how much negativity and even contempt those within the tech industry have for our most prominent voices.
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• Facebook Privacy And The Work/Life Balance by John Bishop on his blog (which reminds us a bit of the dramaturgical perspective – Sofia wrote about it on her own blog)

A video on the ‘we think‘ idea by Chalres Leadbeater (@wethink)

I really like how the video also has questions near the end – about unresolved issues and challenges that the whole system faces.

Through questions come discussions and through discussions innovation will follow.

Here are some of the inspiring things that we found this week.

• Transmedia storytelling, and the multi-dimensional brand by Alan Moore on SMLXL
• Impatient CEOs are all of a Twitter, but it doesn’t work like that by John Naughton on The Observer
• How to Steal on Fresh Creation (the videos are pure gems)
• Copenhagen Design Week: Prelude to COP15 by Roberta Cruger on TreeHugger
• Social Media Venn on KK* (and you can even get it on a T-Shirt – I am definitely getting one)

Also check out Social Enterprise London and respond to the survey they are running on user experience of their website.

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Manolis thinks he likes Expression Engine but he reserves judgement for next week when he will have had time to really test it out.