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How to ship better ideas by shaping how your team decides

November 2, 2023 Leadership, Strategy

What is positioning for B2B tech?

September 21, 2023 Messaging, Positioning, Storytelling, Strategy

How to apply “release early, release often” to build a better brand

July 26, 2023 Open Source

6 signs your company needs a new name

July 25, 2023 Naming

New Kind is a Certified B Corporation

December 9, 2022 New Kind News

Aren’t all agency relationships open and collaborative?

November 9, 2022 Company Culture, Open Source, Strategy

Helping a higher purpose take flight

November 1, 2022 Company Culture, Messaging, Positioning, Storytelling

Putting the “kindness” in New Kind

October 12, 2022 Company Culture, New Kind News

Will COVID-19 turn us all into experience designers?

May 7, 2020 Leadership, Strategy, UX

How to preserve tech brand equity after an acquisition

April 28, 2020 Leadership, Open Source, Positioning, Strategy

Why having a clear voice is crucial for tech companies

April 7, 2020 Messaging, Storytelling, Strategy

Are you missing a big opportunity with your event experiences?

January 27, 2020 Identity Design, Messaging, Strategy

It’s time for a proof-of-purpose blockchain

December 17, 2019 Brand Community, Storytelling, Strategy

Introducing the New Kind Brand Diagnostic

December 3, 2019 New Kind News, Positioning, Research, Strategy

How your product brand strategy shapes your overall brand reputation

November 14, 2019 Strategy

What’s a tech CMO really buying when working with an agency?

November 7, 2019 Leadership, Strategy

5 reasons tech messaging fails at scale

October 8, 2019 Messaging, Startup Branding

How to pick a fight with your in-house teams

September 27, 2019 Strategy

Five of our favorite ways to roll out your new brand

September 12, 2019 Strategy

Why brand is more valuable than ever in a data-rich SaaS world

August 20, 2019 Strategy

5 strategies to build buy-in for your new brand

August 14, 2019 Strategy

Modular messaging: the tech marketer’s Swiss Army Knife

July 26, 2019 Messaging

Five ways to use humanity to build your brand

July 2, 2019 Positioning, Storytelling, Strategy

How to run collaborative brand projects like a pro

June 13, 2019 Leadership, Open Source, Strategy

Why your messaging strategy should be both foundational and fluid

May 17, 2019 Messaging, Open Source, Startup Branding, Strategy

4 signs your high-growth company needs brand development

May 10, 2019 Strategy

Blockchain has a branding problem

April 24, 2019 Strategy

How to choose better names in tech: Bridge the familiarity gap

April 17, 2019 Naming, Strategy

Don’t settle for a tagline. Get a big brand message.

April 5, 2019 Positioning, Storytelling, Strategy

How to stay grounded as you scale

March 29, 2019 Leadership, Startup Branding

How to stand out when every tech company says the same thing

March 21, 2019 Storytelling

Branding vs. marketing vs. public relations (and why you need all three)

March 12, 2019 Strategy

Want differentiation? Hunt for contrast.

March 7, 2019 Identity Design, Positioning, Strategy

How to work the open source way

November 26, 2018 Brand Community, Company Culture, Open Source, Strategy

Use the visual organizing principle to design an authentic identity

September 28, 2018 Identity Design, Open Source, Strategy

3 ways that developing your open source brand benefits your customers and community

September 17, 2018 Brand Community, Identity Design, Open Source, Research, Strategy

An open source approach to company vision

September 12, 2018 Company Culture, Open Source

Talent in tech part II: How to create great company culture

August 9, 2018 Company Culture, Leadership

4 proven tips for defining your company’s values

July 31, 2018 Company Culture, Strategy

Master your brand voice in 3 simple steps

July 26, 2018 Storytelling, Strategy

4 guidelines for building a global brand

July 10, 2018 Brand Community, Identity Design, Positioning, Strategy

Talent in tech: 3 challenges facing today’s HR leaders

June 28, 2018 Company Culture, Leadership

Overcoming blind spots, a key to mindful leadership

June 7, 2018 Leadership

What goes into a branding project?

May 24, 2018 Identity Design, Positioning, Research, Storytelling, Strategy

Brand Layers: A Simple Step-by-Step Guide to Build an Authentic Brand

May 23, 2018 Brand Community, Positioning, Research, Storytelling, Strategy

Adventure Guide: The Fundamentals of Storytelling for Building Memorable Brands

May 10, 2018 Storytelling

Adventure Guide: The 4 Critical Building Blocks of Great Brand Positioning

May 10, 2018 Positioning, Strategy

6 ways to crush your next sales kickoff presentation

May 3, 2018 Storytelling, Strategy

Naming a startup that scales, Part 2: Picking a winner

April 26, 2018 Startup Branding, Strategy

How to get the most out of your brand personas

April 18, 2018 Brand Community, Research, Strategy

Naming a startup that scales, Part 1: Strategic brainstorming

March 29, 2018 Startup Branding, Strategy

On tech branding and the myth of the indifferent developer

March 27, 2018 Brand Community, Company Culture, Open Source, Strategy

The Leader’s Choice: Recognizing fear in the workplace

March 9, 2018 Company Culture, Leadership

Welcome Danielle Souder to New Kind

March 9, 2018 New Kind News

Company naming: What approach should you take?

February 28, 2018 Identity Design, Research, Startup Branding, Strategy

The first question of leadership: “Who are you?”

February 20, 2018 Leadership

Why your brand should align story and design

February 15, 2018 Identity Design, Storytelling, Strategy

A four-step guide to creating a unified brand story

January 31, 2018 Positioning, Research, Storytelling, Strategy

A fond farewell to 105 Brooks Avenue

January 18, 2018 New Kind News

Why your brand needs a unified brand story

January 4, 2018 Brand Community, Company Culture, Storytelling, Strategy

Powerful Questions

December 21, 2017 Company Culture, Leadership

Video: Hopscotch Design 2017 Speaker Spotlight: Mike Rigby

December 11, 2017 Brand Community, Identity Design, Leadership, Storytelling

How to create an employer value proposition part two: Research

December 5, 2017 Company Culture, Research, Strategy

How to write a mission statement that matters

November 29, 2017 Company Culture, Positioning, Storytelling

4 brand research tips to help you connect with your audience

November 28, 2017 Positioning, Research, Strategy

If you’re a technology marketer, you’d better be a good storyteller. Jonathan Opp explains why.

October 30, 2017 Storytelling

How to decide when to hire an agency to help you build your brand

October 26, 2017 Strategy

Video: The Leader’s Choice

October 23, 2017 Company Culture, Leadership, Strategy

Tools and techniques for conducting brand research

October 6, 2017 Brand Community, Positioning, Research

Three first steps to becoming the leader of your own life

October 3, 2017 Leadership

5 ways research helps you build a more powerful brand

September 19, 2017 Positioning, Research, Strategy

Three signs your tech company is badly positioned (and what to do about it)

September 4, 2017 Positioning, Research

How to create an employer value proposition part one: Strategy

August 27, 2017 Company Culture, Strategy

Simplify tech product naming by building a brand architecture diagram

August 24, 2017 Positioning, Strategy

The brand and economic advantages of the Docker / Moby split

May 16, 2017 Brand Community, Positioning

How top tech brands mastered awareness and consideration (and you can too)

February 20, 2017 Positioning, Research

In-house vs. agency branding: 5 benefits of each approach

January 30, 2017 Identity Design, Strategy

7 ways to create a more powerful mindset

November 22, 2016 Company Culture, Leadership

Amazing stories can come from anywhere

November 10, 2016 Storytelling

The story behind our Get Out the Vote poster for AIGA

November 7, 2016 Identity Design

How we dedicated an entire day to cultural alignment and activation

October 31, 2016 Company Culture

5 great entrepreneur biographies to inspire your startup

October 24, 2016 Company Culture, Leadership, Strategy

Hopscotch 2016 Reflections

September 30, 2016 Uncategorized

Why going through a rebranding project is kind of like taking yoga classes

September 15, 2016 Brand Community, Identity Design

3 keys to developing your organization’s story openly

September 1, 2016 Brand Community, Open Source, Positioning, Storytelling

My 2016 Hopscotch Design Festival must-see list

August 29, 2016 Uncategorized

5 questions with designer and artist Ekene Ijeoma

August 24, 2016 Uncategorized

5 questions with ‘Made to Stick’ author Dan Heath

August 22, 2016 Research

5 questions with artist and filmmaker Michelle Higa Fox

August 19, 2016 Uncategorized

5 questions with Invisibilia’s Lulu Miller

August 15, 2016 Storytelling

4 lessons for running a mission or values project openly

July 26, 2016 Brand Community, Company Culture, Strategy

Creating an open city: reflecting on the 2016 AIGA leadership retreat

June 30, 2016 Brand Community, Leadership

Leading the tribe: AIGA and the future of design leadership

June 29, 2016 Leadership

Startup branding checklist: 10 things to do before you launch

June 27, 2016 Identity Design, Positioning, Startup Branding

Using research to engage your community

June 7, 2016 Brand Community, Research, Strategy

Avoiding ‘BrandyMcBrandface’ issues when running projects openly

June 7, 2016 Brand Community, Company Culture

The unchanging nature of leadership in the midst of change

May 31, 2016 Leadership

A Sim-ple fact, Chris Sim joins the New Kind design team

May 26, 2016 Company Culture

Introducing New Kind Coaching with David Burney

May 19, 2016 Leadership, Strategy

7 Story-driven Campaigns that Show The Power of Story in Action

May 17, 2016 Storytelling

Storytelling: A Powerful Tool for Successfully Leading Change

April 28, 2016 Brand Community, Storytelling, Strategy

Dear Ping-Pong Table: An Open Letter to the Façade of “Fun” Office Culture

April 27, 2016 Company Culture

How to Effectively Position Your Technology Brand Part IV: The Brand Mantra

April 25, 2016 Positioning, Startup Branding, Strategy

Announcing ‘The Power of Story’ Workshop on June 15th

April 20, 2016 Storytelling

Port of Raleigh: How Utility Shapes Design

April 18, 2016 Brand Community

Too Close to Home? Dan Lyons and the Evisceration of Hubspot

April 11, 2016 Company Culture

Hello, World. Meet Anchore.

April 6, 2016 Brand Community, Open Source

How to Effectively Position Your Technology Brand Part III: Points of Parity

April 4, 2016 Positioning, Startup Branding, Strategy

Glossier and the Beauty of a Community-Focused Brand

April 1, 2016 Brand Community

NGINX Releases Results of First Study on the Future of Application Development and Delivery

March 29, 2016 Brand Community

Kill Extra Brand Names to Make Your Open Source Project More Powerful

March 22, 2016 Strategy

Design Process: Creating an Adaptable Identity for Home Fragrance Brand Diamond Candles

March 21, 2016 Identity Design

How to Effectively Position Your Technology Brand Part II: Points of Difference

March 15, 2016 Strategy

A Frank Observation: We Review an Exclusive Typeface from Digital Typefoundry Milieu Grotesque

March 14, 2016 Identity Design

How To Effectively Position Your Technology Brand Part I: Competitive Frames of Reference

March 7, 2016 Strategy

How to Choose the Right Brand Architecture for Your Open Source Project

February 29, 2016 Strategy

How to Choose a Brand Name for Your Open Source Project

February 22, 2016 Strategy

Brand Positioning: The Crucial Code Top Technology Brands Must Master

February 13, 2016 Positioning, Strategy

Culture of Color | A New Kind Visual Podcast

January 28, 2016 Identity Design

“Mobile-First” Matters

January 21, 2016 Strategy

Performance and Brand Perception

January 12, 2016 Strategy

New Kind’s 5 Best of 2015

December 23, 2015 Company Culture

New Balance Breaks the Mold for Promoting their New 3D-Printed Midsole Sneakers

November 20, 2015 Identity Design

Pascale’s Triangle: Creativity, Relationship Building, and Motherhood

November 11, 2015 Company Culture

Join Us for The AIGA Raleigh Studio Tour

October 28, 2015 Brand Community, Identity Design

Brand Positioning Week Recap

October 22, 2015 Positioning

Test Your Brand Positioning

October 16, 2015 Positioning

Kevin Keller’s Five Favorite Brand Mantras

October 15, 2015 Positioning

Brand positioning tip: a brand mantra is not a tagline

October 15, 2015 Positioning

The brand mantra

October 15, 2015 Positioning

Your positioning jujutsu move: Points of parity

October 14, 2015 Positioning

Finding Your Competitive Frame of Reference

October 13, 2015 Positioning

Where will brand positioning take me and why does it matter?

October 12, 2015 Positioning

Welcome to Brand Positioning Week

October 12, 2015 Positioning

Acting with Intent: Reflections on the second year of Hopscotch Design Festival

September 24, 2015 Uncategorized

What’s your favorite source of design inspiration in the Triangle?

August 21, 2015 Brand Community

Congratulations to Mary Elizabeth Lovelace

August 6, 2015 Brand Community

Welcome to our newest sherpa

July 27, 2015 Company Culture

Case story: Branding the Heart of the Modern Web with NGINX

July 22, 2015 Identity Design, Positioning, Research, Storytelling

We’re hiring: Seeking a writer with a passion for technology

July 14, 2015 Company Culture

New Kind is hiring a Junior Designer

June 1, 2015 Company Culture, Identity Design

Reflections from a Storyteller

May 7, 2015 Storytelling

Walking the line and storytelling

April 15, 2015 Storytelling

Which local brand stories inspire you?

April 10, 2015 Brand Community, Storytelling

Who are your storytelling heroes?

April 8, 2015 Storytelling

It’s New Kind Storytelling Week: Share your story, win a scholarship

April 6, 2015 Storytelling

We’ve launched New Kind Workshops

March 18, 2015 Company Culture, Strategy

New Kind is Hiring a Relationship Manager

March 16, 2015 Company Culture

Looking for a Senior Front-End Web Developer / Technologist

March 10, 2015 Company Culture

Happy Sixth Birthday, New Kind!

February 4, 2015 Company Culture

What’s your beautiful question?

February 2, 2015 Storytelling

Words of inspiration

January 30, 2015 Storytelling

Shifting To A Catalyst Mindset

January 29, 2015 Strategy

Looking ahead

January 27, 2015 Strategy

What’s got your wheels turning in 2015?

January 23, 2015 Company Culture

What does the New Year mean to you?

January 20, 2015 Company Culture

Major League Soccer: User-powered content

January 15, 2015 Strategy

NC State College of Design presents Alexander Isley

January 13, 2015 Leadership

Happy New Year

January 5, 2015 Company Culture

A Festival for Intent

October 28, 2014 Brand Community

Sharing in the play

October 22, 2014 Company Culture

What’s more boring than making creativity boring?

October 2, 2014 Leadership, Strategy

Building community from Aspen to Raleigh

August 20, 2014 Brand Community

Help us shape the future of New Kind

August 8, 2014 Brand Community, Company Culture, Strategy

Are You Curious?

July 29, 2014 Strategy

Here’s how to reconnect with a community you love

July 14, 2014 Brand Community

We’re hiring a writer

July 7, 2014 Company Culture

Journey to Understand the Importance of Community

June 10, 2014 Brand Community

Meet the people designing the future

June 5, 2014 Brand Community

Introducing New Kind’s Newest Stars

June 3, 2014 Company Culture

Leading by Community

May 27, 2014 Brand Community, Leadership

The Four Spirits of New Kind

May 8, 2014 Company Culture

The spark that inspires: Progress announces new brand identity

October 16, 2013 Identity Design

Share Early, Share Often

March 7, 2013 Company Culture, Identity Design, Storytelling

Management Innovation eXchange

February 26, 2013 Brand Community

MIX Hackathon: Communities of Passion

February 25, 2013 Brand Community

CAM Raleigh: Building a brand for a new contemporary art museum

February 15, 2013 Identity Design

New Kind Helps ‘Reimagine’ North Carolina

January 29, 2013 Leadership, Strategy

Pathways to Opportunity Tour | Report

January 29, 2013 Identity Design, Research, Storytelling

NCSU Centennial Campus | Report

January 29, 2013 Identity Design, Storytelling

North Carolina New Schools Project | Report

January 29, 2013 Identity Design, Research, Storytelling

MDCinc.org

January 29, 2013 Identity Design, Storytelling

Institute for Emerging Issues | Visual Identity System

January 29, 2013 Identity Design, Storytelling, Strategy

RedwoodsGroup.com

January 29, 2013 Identity Design, Research, Storytelling, Strategy

The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas | Storytelling

January 29, 2013 Storytelling, Strategy

Protect All North Carolina Families

January 28, 2013 Uncategorized

Protect All NC Families | Visual Identity System

January 28, 2013 Identity Design, Storytelling, Strategy

Innovate Raleigh | Collaborative Facilitation and Engagement

January 28, 2013 Strategy

Innovate Raleigh | Report

January 28, 2013 Identity Design, Research, Storytelling

Designing A Year

January 18, 2013 Company Culture

Dave Mason Joins New Kind

November 29, 2012 Company Culture

Branch: Information Overload

August 28, 2012 Brand Community

How to Thrive in the Social Era

August 10, 2012 Company Culture

The (new) Social Ecosystem

July 26, 2012 Brand Community

The innovative power of communities

July 3, 2012 Brand Community

Final report from the the Management 2.0 Hackathon now available

June 18, 2012 Leadership

Want to increase autonomy in your organization? Consider a freedom / accountability swap

June 7, 2012 Company Culture

New Kind’s Role with Amendment One

May 19, 2012 Brand Community, Identity Design

Brand tip: Call a duck a duck, and a giraffe…uh… Giraffey?

April 25, 2012 Positioning, Storytelling

How do you collaborate without leaving introverts behind?

April 22, 2012 Positioning, Strategy

Elizabeth Atkins joins New Kind

March 29, 2012 Company Culture

Creating Green, Smart, and Just Cities

March 19, 2012 Brand Community

Introducing the New Kind Board of Advisors

March 8, 2012 Company Culture, Leadership

Update from the MIX Management 2.0 Hackathon

February 26, 2012 Brand Community

What ‘Default to Open’ Looks Like at New Kind

February 23, 2012 Brand Community

#NCGenZ and Generation Flux

February 8, 2012 Uncategorized

Susan G. Komen and the Anatomy of a Social Media Wildfire, including a guest appearance by @rachelsklar

February 8, 2012 Uncategorized

College rankings and the dark matter of reputational precision

February 2, 2012 Uncategorized

Social Media Decision Making

January 25, 2012 Uncategorized

Branding tip: Calling a duck a duck, Bahamas-style

January 18, 2012 Uncategorized

Nation Hahn Joins New Kind

January 17, 2012 Uncategorized

A Nobel Prize winner takes on Jim Collins and the business book industry

January 11, 2012 Brand Community

HP: How to (accidentally?) launch a new brand identity the right way

December 14, 2011 Brand Community

Some thoughts from the Eisenhower Fellowships event

December 12, 2011 Brand Community

How to connect to key communities with the help of brand ambassadors

December 8, 2011 Brand Community

Sprint #1 of the Management 2.0 Hackathon starts today

December 1, 2011 Brand Community

Hey, oil companies. Stop using advertising to tell us you don’t suck.

November 20, 2011 Strategy

Designer As Catalyst

November 16, 2011 Uncategorized

Closed for Business?

November 15, 2011 Uncategorized

I hate (most) taglines. There, I said it.

November 15, 2011 Strategy

What is a brand story and why does it matter?

November 6, 2011 Strategy

Seven great books for people interested in branding their small businesses

October 30, 2011 Strategy

A review of the new Jim Collins book "Great By Choice"

October 26, 2011 Uncategorized

Betrayed by the brand: How Moleskine made enemies of the people who loved it most

October 25, 2011 Brand Community

How to test your brand positioning: is it desirable, deliverable, and differentiated?

October 24, 2011 Strategy

12 design thinking rules from David Burney

October 20, 2011 Uncategorized

Google PR team: I salute you for defaulting to open

October 19, 2011 Uncategorized

Ally Bank shows there’s a right time for even ad-free brands to advertise

October 16, 2011 Strategy

Kevin Keller’s five favorite classic brand mantras

October 13, 2011 Strategy

How to Thrive in the Social Era

October 10, 2011 Brand Community

How to *really* help the communities your brand interacts with

October 7, 2011 Uncategorized

Think Different. Thanks Steve.

October 6, 2011 Uncategorized

Dear CEO—Read this…

October 3, 2011 Uncategorized

Why is Google putting so many ads on TV?

October 3, 2011 Strategy

Quail Ridge Books and the dark matter of customer experience

September 29, 2011 Strategy

Where should you focus brand efforts? Community or customer?

September 27, 2011 Strategy

How is your organization faring in the war of control vs. freedom?

September 26, 2011 Uncategorized

To establish brand positioning from the inside out, think like a conductor

September 23, 2011 Strategy

In Cuba, ad-free brands are the rule, not the exception

September 20, 2011 Strategy

Mozilla: A study in organizational openness

September 15, 2011 Uncategorized

How open and transparent can a public company really be?

September 12, 2011 Uncategorized

The Ad-Free Brand tip #3: The community is more than just customers

September 8, 2011 Strategy

The Ad-Free Brand tip #2: Don’t think like Tom Sawyer

September 7, 2011 Strategy

A short video intro to The Ad-Free Brand

August 31, 2011 Strategy

Can an open, collaborative approach still work when not everyone has opted in?

August 30, 2011 Uncategorized

Three approaches to designing brand positioning for ad-free brands

August 25, 2011 Strategy

In a tough job market, your open source experience may be an asset in more ways than one

August 16, 2011 Uncategorized

Synthesizing your positioning research

August 9, 2011 Strategy

Where can you find the data that will inform your brand positioning?

August 2, 2011 Strategy

New Kind featured in The News & Observer

July 21, 2011 Uncategorized

Thoughts from the HCI Engagement and Retention Conference in Chicago

July 14, 2011 Uncategorized

The ever-changing tradition of Disney

July 8, 2011 Uncategorized

IBM’s thoughts on how to achieve long-term success

July 5, 2011 Uncategorized

Attracting top creative talent through culture

June 24, 2011 Uncategorized

Why traditional thinking may be the riskiest strategy of all

June 23, 2011 Uncategorized

The low-cost, high-value approach to brand positioning research

June 21, 2011 Uncategorized

Don’t hate us because our office is beautiful

June 15, 2011 Uncategorized

Are the "Best Companies to Work For" really the best companies to work for?

June 15, 2011 Uncategorized

Three tired marketing words you should stop using

June 13, 2011 Uncategorized

The four questions your brand positioning research must answer

June 8, 2011 Uncategorized

Want people to embrace the open source way? Don’t talk, do.

May 25, 2011 Uncategorized

Thoughts on Long-Wave theory and Mayans: Is now the time for new kinds of organizations?

May 20, 2011 Uncategorized

Why does brand positioning matter and what must change?

May 12, 2011 Uncategorized

Mitsubishi’s gift to the community of people affected by the Japan earthquake

May 11, 2011 Uncategorized

The astrophysics of building a brand from the inside out

May 3, 2011 Uncategorized

How do you sell a community-based brand strategy to your executive team?

April 27, 2011 Uncategorized

Who will be the new face of openness at Google?

April 12, 2011 Uncategorized

Some authenticity advice from the Avett Brothers

April 5, 2011 Uncategorized

Does your organization think like Ptolemy?

March 28, 2011 Uncategorized

When authenticity matters most

March 25, 2011 Uncategorized

Cost savings in The Netherlands: Now you see it, now you don’t

March 23, 2011 Uncategorized

Interested in reinventing management? Come help me out.

March 11, 2011 Uncategorized

Which one of these is not like the other? Congressional Research Service and Transparency

March 10, 2011 Uncategorized

Of the community, not above the community

March 7, 2011 Uncategorized

This one goes out to the fence painters

March 1, 2011 Uncategorized

Lend some code to your local representative

February 28, 2011 Uncategorized

User-led innovation can’t create breakthroughs. Really?

February 16, 2011 Uncategorized

Five questions about open source and branding with Alina Wheeler

February 14, 2011 Uncategorized

Your open source management approach: Red Team or Blue Team?

February 7, 2011 Uncategorized

Time to chase a new kind of dream

February 1, 2011 Uncategorized

What does Google’s management change say about the open source way?

January 26, 2011 Uncategorized

A State of the Union address delivered the open source way?

January 25, 2011 Uncategorized

Is your brand out of control?

January 20, 2011 Uncategorized

I’m writing a book

January 3, 2011 Uncategorized

Studio H: A real-world experiment in design-based education

December 22, 2010 Uncategorized

Does WikiLeaks damage the brand image of wikis?

December 8, 2010 Uncategorized

De-bucketizing the org chart

December 6, 2010 Uncategorized

Avoid the tool trap when building communities

November 15, 2010 Uncategorized

Diversifying Saudi Arabia through open source and its university-by-design

November 10, 2010 Uncategorized

BetterMeans: a new app for running your organization the open source way

November 8, 2010 Uncategorized

Open innovation and open source innovation: what do they share and where do they differ?

November 1, 2010 Uncategorized

My newest hobby: Hacking management

October 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Apple, Google, and the open vs. closed positioning war

October 20, 2010 Uncategorized

What open source community?

October 18, 2010 Uncategorized

A community-building perspective on the Gap logo controversy

October 14, 2010 Uncategorized

Five questions about open innovation, open source, and NASA with Molly Dix of RTI

October 6, 2010 Uncategorized

Evaluating TEDx as a brand strategy

September 29, 2010 Uncategorized

The open source organization: Good in theory or good in reality?

September 27, 2010 Uncategorized

Brand positioning tip #13: Embedding positioning internally

September 22, 2010 Uncategorized

Are you building a community or a club?

September 15, 2010 Uncategorized

Want to reinvent management? Start with the managers.

August 30, 2010 Uncategorized

Reflections on Matthew Szulik and closing the ‘executive gap’

August 27, 2010 Uncategorized

New Public Spaces 2: Practical Design Guidelines

August 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Five questions about open innovation with Stefan Lindegaard

August 25, 2010 Uncategorized

Institutional innovation, Mark Twain, and John Seely Brown

August 19, 2010 Uncategorized

The official New Kind policy on policies

August 18, 2010 Uncategorized

Does your organization need a “no policy” policy?

August 17, 2010 Uncategorized

Ignoring the Law of Ownership gives hope for Alzheimers victims. And all of us.

August 13, 2010 Uncategorized

Planning ahead for a new breed of “public” spaces

August 9, 2010 Uncategorized

The King is dead; long live the king.

August 5, 2010 Uncategorized

OpenIDEO: A new experiment in open innovation

August 5, 2010 Uncategorized

Is your culture made of gold or fool’s gold?

August 4, 2010 Uncategorized

Quit marketing now tip #1: Default to personal communication

August 3, 2010 Uncategorized

Brand positioning tip #12: Don’t get hung up on the words

July 23, 2010 Uncategorized

MIX: Gary Hamel’s experiment in reinventing management the open source way

July 20, 2010 Uncategorized

Yesterday. All my troubles seemed so far away.

July 15, 2010 Uncategorized

The first strategic question

July 14, 2010 Uncategorized

Do you aspire to build a brand community or a community brand?

July 13, 2010 Uncategorized

The grasshoppers’ revenge

July 12, 2010 Uncategorized

The open source way: Designed for managing complexity?

July 8, 2010 Uncategorized

Two tips for meeting survival in an entrenched bureaucracy

June 21, 2010 Uncategorized

How to find a community’s cheeseheads when they aren’t wearing foam hats

June 21, 2010 Uncategorized

Trust: The catalyst of the open source way

June 7, 2010 Uncategorized

Five questions about authenticity and the open source way with Jim Gilmore

May 25, 2010 Uncategorized

Blinded by the plan

May 24, 2010 Uncategorized

Who moved my crystal ball?

May 17, 2010 Uncategorized

Toyota gives customer-driven design the green light

May 3, 2010 Uncategorized

Is the word “community” losing its meaning?

April 21, 2010 Uncategorized

Which is better: Efficient markets or efficient communities?

April 19, 2010 Uncategorized

Why the open source way trumps the crowdsourcing way

April 15, 2010 Uncategorized

Community-building tip: Surprise is the opposite of engagement

April 8, 2010 Uncategorized

Five questions about building community with Chris Blizzard of Mozilla

March 30, 2010 Uncategorized

Can truly great design be done the open source way?

March 22, 2010 Uncategorized

Is Jaron Lanier just a hater, or should we be paying attention?

March 16, 2010 Uncategorized

The Wikimedia Foundation: doing strategic planning the open source way

March 11, 2010 Uncategorized

Love, hate, and the Wikipedia contributor culture problem

March 8, 2010 Uncategorized

Five questions about the future of music with David Pakman

March 2, 2010 Uncategorized

Three tips for escaping the creativity peloton without giving up on collaboration

February 25, 2010 Uncategorized

A handbook for the open source way, written the open source way

February 22, 2010 Uncategorized

What if politicians innovated the open source way?

February 17, 2010 Uncategorized

Is the traditional business world at war with creativity?

February 11, 2010 Uncategorized

Building a practice out of building communities

January 27, 2010 Uncategorized

Design policy presentation and video featured on Slideshare

January 27, 2010 Uncategorized

Chris Grams Joins New Kind

January 25, 2010 Uncategorized

Open sourcing, crowd sourcing, and commodities

January 13, 2010 Uncategorized

Roasted Crow; recipes of the season

December 21, 2009 Uncategorized

Matthew Muñoz selected to participate in 2009 Design Policy Summit

November 24, 2009 Uncategorized

ChangePapers.org partner, Leslie Boney, named to North Carolina Innovation Council

November 18, 2009 Uncategorized

Georgia Tech Launches Center for Innovation in Local Government

November 10, 2009 Uncategorized

Trumping Innovation

November 9, 2009 Uncategorized

New Kind partners with the Institute for Emerging Issues

October 30, 2009 Uncategorized

The next challenge for open source

October 28, 2009 Uncategorized

Muñoz 20/20

October 15, 2009 Uncategorized

Machiavelli and Our New Challenge

October 15, 2009 Uncategorized

Burney Recognized As 2009 AIGA Fellow

October 14, 2009 Uncategorized

Look Who’s Talking too…

August 26, 2009 Uncategorized

Harvard Business Review and One Trend Designers Knew About

August 26, 2009 Uncategorized

Look who’s talking about design thinking and management

August 24, 2009 Uncategorized

Regional design groups like New Kind collaborate, innovate

August 12, 2009 Uncategorized

Dark matters and tribal matters: Grams v Godin

July 24, 2009 Uncategorized

Community building — branding, networked media and open sourcing

July 23, 2009 Uncategorized

Less fear and more determination

April 16, 2009 Uncategorized

Kiss it. It’ll stick better.

March 11, 2009 Uncategorized

Just who exactly is Matt Muñoz?

March 10, 2009 Uncategorized

With apologies to Garrison Keillor

March 10, 2009 Uncategorized

What would Henry Ford have to say about all this?

March 5, 2009 Uncategorized

Designer Obama

March 3, 2009 Uncategorized

Loyalty, shmloyalty

February 26, 2009 Uncategorized

That word again — Mavericks (Argh)

February 25, 2009 Uncategorized