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POPSBob San Sushi in Chicago - Negative Review Last night I had an unfortunate run in with the manager at Bob San. First, let me preface this story by saying my wife and I have dined there multiple times, and enjoy sushi probably once a week. However, we will not be going back.
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POPSCo-Creation and Online Community: D*I*Y Planner and Levenger "For companies interested in co-creation like this, the most important step is participation. Speak with communities as a genuine, authentic person interested in learning and collaboration. Earn trust by giving more than you receive. Prototype alongside your customers, and share your failures as frequently as your successes. Be remarkable."
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POPSLong Now: Avatar Afterlife Incredibly inspiring forecast of the potential to commune with digital ghosts. - persistent existence less consciousness Jones - "Creating a copy of online behavior and programming an avatar to respond to stimuli in the way the user has been during their digital life is not suggesting consciousness, merely sophisticated replication. This scenario has some intriguing consequences. Amongst them are the possibilities an individual could leave money to their avatar rather than their children in order to support their avatar afterlife, or that future generations would have access to a representation of their ancestors – but would having access to the temporal wisdom of our forebears be of any use? A digital representation of life could continue unhindered in a virtual environment, after real-life has ended."
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POPSa visualization of pervasive narrative development in a social web of influencers and connectors Each node is a thread. Each connection is a link. The ability to influence the silent audience becomes easier to understand when the interface is modified to display the "social web." This is the value of converting brand 'talkers'/evangelists into better teachers through collaborative ideation and seeding indigenous collaborative web technologies for mass distribution of consumer generated marketing.
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POPSCirca Notebook Review: The San Diego Transcript Phil Baker of the San Diego Transcript reviews Levenger's Circa Notebook as a low-tech counterpart to a high-tech environment. The mass of prosumer DIY forms and templates online has transformed the disc-bound notebook line into an "open system."
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POPSRyan Rasmussen - "An Interview with an Innovator" [Stephen Smith - HDBizBlog] Stephen Smith, of the HDBizBlog, interviews Ryan Rasmussen, emergent media specialist at Levenger. "Weave inspiring narratives throughout the net that will compel future customers to fall in love with your own unique customer experience. Through persistent, genuine interaction, passionate customers convert from 'talkers' into 'teachers,' "
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POPSFlickr: Rasmussen Flickr account for collaborative brainstorming and new product development with DIY communities.
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POPSCollaborative Ideation Collaborative Ideation is a tumblelog I use to synthesize voice and perspective for the various social networks within which I experiment. I started an online social media experiment a year ago with R&D in mind. However, I quickly discovered that a responsive online presence was a far more valuable tool as a new method for learning from customers.