Geek Salad takes a hiatus, but David Fannin will be there each week if you get lonely

Gone Fishing
I'll be doing some traveling the next few weeks, so we won't have an official meeting.
Don't bother trying to rob the house; it will be occupied and well-guarded.

David is a morning regular at Kaldi's, so you can find him there, if you arrive by 7 or so.

Here are some other alternatives to get your Geek Fix in the meantime:

* Mid-Mo iPad Users Group - Thu Oct 21 at 5:30 PM - Reynolds Journalism Institute: Lambert room - U of Mo

I'll be back to meet again on Nov 9, so stay tuned.

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using The Back of the Napkin - on visual communication...

Brian Whorley from Boone Hospital Center forwarded this link about Dan Roam's book, "The Back of the Napkin". David Fannin and I highly recommend it, too!

Here's a cool book I ran across: http://www.thebackofthenapkin.com/

As it applies to healthcare: http://digitalroam.typepad.com/digital_roam/2009/08/fixing-health-care-on-the-back-of-a-napkin-4-napkins-actually.html

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Tell a story with Animated Video - Geek Salad meets Sep 28 at 7AM

I love the videos produced by CommonCraft.com<http://www.commoncraft.com>, like this one on "secure passwords"<http://www.commoncraft.com/secure-passwords-video>. They use cardboard cutouts, fingers moving things around, and creative visualizations.

I came across this storyboard tool<http://www.lilipip.com/templates/Script_and_Storyboard_Template.pdf> that one of the companies in the CommonCraft network uses to help it's clients think through a new custom project.

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I'll print a few copies of the form, and we can play with the tool, imagining that we have a complex story to tell. I like the idea of creative constraints (e.g. voice-over is 20 words) to shape the work.

See you at Kaldi's!

Jeff Belden MD | beldenj@health.missouri.edu<mailto:beldenj@health.missouri.edu> | 573-489-4206 m
Geek Salad | Tossing Ideas Around
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Get Mental! Shake up thinking that got stuck - Geek Salad meets Tue Sep 14 at 7 AM

September has gotten busy for me, and I suspect others as well.
Vacation months are over.
The quarterly meetings are happening this month.

This creates deadline thinking, and inhibits the creative spark we all have.
I recently got my deck of "Mental Notes<http://www.getmentalnotes.com/>" in the mail, designed to spur "out of the box" thinking, based on sound principles.

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Come join us Tuesday AM at Kaldi's and we'll play with these together.
We'll imagine we're stuck (okay, maybe we won't have to imagine it), and use Mental Notes to get us thinking openly again.

See you then.

Jeff Belden MD | beldenj@health.missouri.edu<mailto:beldenj@health.missouri.edu> | 573-489-4206 m
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iPadversaries! (alternatives to the iPad) | Geek Salad meets Tue Aug 17

Nice post by Harry McCracken on Technologizer.com<http://Technologizer.com>.
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He does short reviews (with links to longer ones) on 32 alternatives to the iPad.
Most of them are not yet, but soon, to be released.
Some look vapory.

<http://technologizer.com/2010/08/12/ipad-alternatives/><http://technologizer.com/2010/08/12/ipad-alternatives/>Lin<http://technologizer.com/2010/08/12/ipad-alternatives/>k to the article.

See you Tuesday AM at Kaldi's.

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Learn How To Pitch From The People Who Have Been There

Entrepreneurs & Innovators:

Learn How To Pitch From The People Who Have Been There      

Workshop and Pitch Event

Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute

August 16 – 17, 2010 (Mon-Tue)

 

Who should attend:

Anyone with a technology or media business proposal to pitch:

•  University of Missouri students

•  Students from other colleges

•  Missouri entrepreneurs and innovators

 

What you’ll do:

•  Discover resources nearby to help you  develop your idea into a marketable  proposal

•  Pitch your idea to a panel of investors with a chance to win a trip to a global  competition that will select the 100 most

innovative ideas in the world

•  Get a professional evaluation of your pitch to refine it for the next pitch

 

More at rjionline.org/innovate.

 

Thanks to Keith Politte for passing along this info.

 

Jeff Belden MD  |  beldenj@health.missouri.edu  |  573-489-4206 m
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Peek under the hood at iPhone app-making | Geek Salad meets Tue Aug 2 at 0700

Tyten Teegarden will show us what it’s like to design an iPhone app. You don’t need to be a programmer to enjoy what he has to say.

He (mostly) and his team wrote the True/False Film Festival iPhone app last year.

I love what happens when you rotate the phone to landscape view!

So, come see, ask questions, and enjoy.

 

Jeff Belden MD  |  beldenj@health.missouri.edu  |  573-489-4206 m
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