All Blog Posts Tagged 'collaboration' (8)

Collaboration. Jim Olen’s heard that word uttered repeatedly in his 20-year career. “I hear it all the time, there’s not enough collaboration, ” he said. The time is ripe, Olen believes, for a new approach in the creative industry, and sought to align his Chicago-based music company Rhythm Café with other independent companies to offer a flexible solution to the production and post-production world. The result of his ef… Continue

http://mgfest.com/spread_the_word/ Motion Graphics Panel Proposals at SXSW need your vote to become a reality: + Artware and the Future of Soul Visualization leads software design, yet the tools for visualization are primarily designed by engineers for business purpose. How can Artist’s re-envision ways of creating with computers that are more appropriate to their practice? How can technology help us to preserve those thi… Continue

In 1987 it became obvious to me that my life would become about people knowing themselves as a contribution; that they matter and that I matter - and

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When I first moved to Chicago, I constantly heard what I now know as 'the second city syndrome'; the notion that we are #2 vs #1 (about what?) and we are second to New York or Los Angeles (does that make us #3?). The conversational environment of a group, company or city makes up it's culture. In other words, what people discuss constitutes the make up of that group. For ease, think about a person who complains about their health all the time. That person, is a 'culture' of being sick. They tr… Continue

You say “I wish they’d figure out how to monetize social media” or “I wonder when they are going to create a remix

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^{From Wikipedia: The Technological Singularity is a theoretical future point that takes place during a period of accelerating change sometime after the creation of a superintelligence.
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The Tutor/Mentor Connection has launched a new version of our Program Locator that overlays layers of data on Google maps to help people understand where non-school tutor/mentor programs are needed, based on poverty and locations of poorly performing schools, and lets people build an understanding of what programs are available in different areas of the Chicago region. Visitors using the interactive and asset maps can zoom into pre-defined areas, such as zip code, community area, political dist… Continue

During my decade in California, the thing I missed most about my hometown of Chicago was the genuine sense of community its residents maintain. Although big cities offer ample opportunity for their citizens to become lost in the shuffle, I’ve always believed it’s a combination of Chicago’s role as the hub of the Midwest and the sometimes brutal weather that goes along with it that brings people together with their neighbors and instills in them a notion of common purpose. Since my return to th… Continue