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Love Minneapolis is Live!

We went live with the brand spanking new Love Minneapolis site this week. I really like how this one turned out. It just felt right as I was designing it.I’m excited to see the impact that Love Minneapolis will continue to have on our community. 

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This could totally work as our second car…

Most days, I could get away with never getting on the highway…This seems ideal minus the safety factor of needing to have the kids in the backseat pushed up against the back window…

For under 15,000 it’s a pretty sweet deal especially since it claims to run on about $210 of electricity a year…

ZennCars

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Love this from LifeChurch…

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LifeChurch.tv

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Everybody's going green.

so i thought I’d provide a few links to some sweet greens:

Inhabitat  I’m really into this blog lately. So much good stuff, it’s heading to the blogroll.

TreeHugger. Deep well of information. Start clicking and you may find yourself at the center of the onion.

The Green Guide. Genuinely Practical.

Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day. Mmmm. Lemon Verbena Green Clean. 

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7 Poor Communication Skills to Avoid

7 Poor Communication Skills to Avoid

1. Contacting others only when you need something.
2. Not following up, or closing the loop.
3. Not returning telephone calls or email messages.
4. Foregoing basic courtesy.
5. Not listening.
6. Telling lies.
7. Spewing chronic negativity.

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Leopard Feature Love Update: Quicklook is changing my productivity level.

On the days when I’m a designer, I’m in Adobe Illustrator all day long. Until now, finding the exact version of a file I want has been somewhat cumbersome. With this Quicklook Plugin for Illustrator, it’s a breeze.  Now I cruise along finding things more efficiently…because I can see inside all of these files without ever opening Illustrator…Sweet!  

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TED

I had no idea. TED has a podcast/RSS Video Feed…. Get it here:

RSS 

iTunes Podcast Link

Zune Podcast Link (Just kidding, I don’t go there…not that there’s anything wrong with it:)

If you don’t listen to TED Talks, you should. 

If you do listen to TED Talks, listen to some more…  

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Christmas Galore 2007

See the photos here…

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It's about time. Office for Mac 2008.

Ars Technica has a first look review of the new Microsoft Office for Mac 2008.

I’m oddly excited about this. Everyone knows I’m an Apple Fanboy, and I love Pages, I’m just not so keen on Numbers.  Overall though, Microsoft has done something smart with their Mac line of products for years…Office for Windows and Office for Mac are developed separately. Not that they aren’t talking and including similar features, but if you’ve been on both platforms, you would recognize that some features (Mail Merge for one) have been much easier and more robust on the Mac for years.

The not so smart thing that Microsoft did, was they didn’t talk internally about cross-platform compatibility. They released the Office for Windows update last year, with no compatibility on the Mac for the .docx file format. — Not so brilliant.  

Anywho…it really looks like this is a huge upgrade and extremely well designed from a Mac perspective.

Can’t wait to get my hands on it…should be available at Macworld next week or sometime in January…

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This is bananas!

Just happen to be googling myself…when I came across this link to a picture of some work I had in this Minneapolis Foundation Art Gallery. 

It’s really funny.

It was a show for commercial designers and the art they do on the job and off the job. Those bananas were the first painting I was ever really proud of. There’s also some business card and logo designs that you can’t make out well in the photo…

I just think it’s hilarious that this stuff still lives online somewhere…

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Sanctuary – #25 on the Most Innovative Churches List

To my surprise, I just found out that Sanctuary is on the Outreach Magazine’s Annual Top 25 Most Innovative Churches list. 

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Placate or Initiate

I was  at a major retailer that can remain nameless, let’s just call them Bullseye. I love Bullseye. I love how Bullseye takes the time to find the balance of Design and Utility. I love the way Bullseye presents itself and makes itself guest focused.

I had a recent experience at Bullseye where i was the guest and I was clearly not the focus….

I recently spent over an hour trying to resolve a “customer service” issue with Bullseye. Out of that hour, I spent at least 45 minutes of my time by myself. Waiting. Waiting…and waiting some more. And while I waited for Bullseye to fix their mistake, I waited by myself, clueless as to what was being done to resolve my problem…

And when the manager came back, he made an attempt to appease me with $15 in Bullseye cash.

I didn’t ask for it. I’ll be honest, at that point I didn’t even want it. I didn’t want to be placated with their solution, I wanted them to initiate a conversation with me, about what might make me feel resolved regarding this situation.

I often placate. I try to silence problems by applying what I think to be the best solution, without initiating a conversation around what might be a real solution for the other party. 

I think I need to do a much better job of initiating conversations, rather than offering placating solutions…. 

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The Dissemination of Brand Ideas and the Long Tail of Brand Communication

There’s a great new manifesto over at Change This.

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5 (Six) Dangerous things you should let your kids do:

Gever Tulley’s TED TALK:

1. Play with Fire
2. Own a Pocket Knife
3. Throw a Spear
4. Deconstruct Appliances
5. Break the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
6. Drive a Car

Look around you. What’s broken?

Do you know how to fix it? Or do you need to deconstruct it first?

This speaks to me on so many different levels. I love TED Talks.

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no time like the present.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank

 When walking through the Mall of America the other day, my three year old boy saw a napkin on the floor. It was really hard on him. How did it get there? Why didn’t it get thrown in the garbage? Why didn’t somebody pick it up?

What will I do today, that isn’t about my job, or leaving my mark, or boosting my ego, but simply about going unnoticed and leaving a positive impact today?