Category Archives: Content with Context

Day 5 – Creating My Future

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Skip Walter

Before I can get to arranging the images this morning, I have a lot of re-immersion homework. I print out the previous four days of images along with Christine’s additions. I also print out the stories so that I can … Continue reading →

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Day 4 – Creating My Future

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Skip Walter

I start the creating my future exercise today bound and determined that I can create a spiral of images. I arrange and re-arrange the images until I am sure I have finally done it. I stand up with my iPhone … Continue reading →

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Day 3 – Creating My Future

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Skip Walter

There is a new energy brewing this morning. Sleep time recollections were powerful. Creating a company or creating a product is the conundrum. What should I be working on? Should I be changing the core question? Trust the process, Skip. … Continue reading →

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Day 2 – Creating My Future

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Skip Walter

I am eager to get up and work with the images once again. The core to the four day process is to use the same set of images but come up with a different arrangement for the collage and a … Continue reading →

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Day 1 – Creating My Future

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Skip Walter

As Alan Wood, David Socha, and I were sharing another wonderful breakfast at Sunflour Bakery and Cafe, continuing our discussion on how to improve higher learning in higher education, Alan shared his desire to have a tool like Devonthink to … Continue reading →

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Advice to a Non-Technical CEO of a Software Startup

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Skip Walter

One of the challenges of an early stage software start-up is whether to have a non-technical CEO who has a good set of relationships with prospective customers, or to have a CEO who really understands the technology and the art … Continue reading →

Posted in Ask and Tell, Attenex, Content with Context, Design, Human Centered Design, Learning, organizing, Russ Ackoff, Software Development, User Experience, Working in teams | 13 Comments

Visual Search – Please, I’m begging you!

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Skip Walter

At breakfast the other morning, my colleague Alan Wood was excited to try out a software tool, Devonthink, that he’d just read about in Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From:  “Private serendipity can be cultivated by technology as well. For … Continue reading →

Posted in Attenex Patterns, Content with Context, Knowledge Management, Software Development, Visual Analytics, Visual pattern Language | 1 Comment

“We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Skip Walter

The buzz around badges is heating up in the educational environment. Whenever I hear badges, I immediately think of the old western movie where the hombre exclaims “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges.” Cathy Davidson has a thoughtful post on … Continue reading →

Posted in Content with Context, Curation, Design, ebook, Human Centered Design, Innovation, Learning, Teaching, Transactive Content, University, User Experience | 3 Comments

Search and you shall receive

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Skip Walter

Sometimes we are so close to technological advances that we forget what an amazing world we’ve created for ourselves. I was reminded of this world of magic when I set out to search for my deceased uncle’s EdD dissertation. I … Continue reading →

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The Non-Linear or Layered eBook

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Skip Walter

As a life long and life wide software entrepreneur, I love building software systems. Well, to be truthful, I love doing the user research and design of the system. Once the system is designed, then it is just that small matter … Continue reading →

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