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Hopscotch 2016 Reflections
September 30, 2016
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My 2016 Hopscotch Design Festival must-see list
August 29, 2016
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5 questions with designer and artist Ekene Ijeoma
August 24, 2016
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5 questions with artist and filmmaker Michelle Higa Fox
August 19, 2016
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Acting with Intent: Reflections on the second year of Hopscotch Design Festival
September 24, 2015
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Protect All North Carolina Families
January 28, 2013
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#NCGenZ and Generation Flux
February 8, 2012
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Susan G. Komen and the Anatomy of a Social Media Wildfire, including a guest appearance by @rachelsklar
February 8, 2012
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College rankings and the dark matter of reputational precision
February 2, 2012
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Social Media Decision Making
January 25, 2012
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Branding tip: Calling a duck a duck, Bahamas-style
January 18, 2012
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Nation Hahn Joins New Kind
January 17, 2012
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Greg DeKoenigsberg’s Law of Institutional Idiocy
December 4, 2011
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Designer As Catalyst
November 16, 2011
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Closed for Business?
November 15, 2011
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A review of the new Jim Collins book "Great By Choice"
October 26, 2011
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12 design thinking rules from David Burney
October 20, 2011
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Google PR team: I salute you for defaulting to open
October 19, 2011
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How to *really* help the communities your brand interacts with
October 7, 2011
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Dear CEO—Read this…
October 3, 2011
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How is your organization faring in the war of control vs. freedom?
September 26, 2011
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Mozilla: A study in organizational openness
September 15, 2011
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How open and transparent can a public company really be?
September 12, 2011
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Can an open, collaborative approach still work when not everyone has opted in?
August 30, 2011
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In a tough job market, your open source experience may be an asset in more ways than one
August 16, 2011
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New Kind featured in The News & Observer
July 21, 2011
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Thoughts from the HCI Engagement and Retention Conference in Chicago
July 14, 2011
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The ever-changing tradition of Disney
July 8, 2011
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IBM’s thoughts on how to achieve long-term success
July 5, 2011
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Attracting top creative talent through culture
June 24, 2011
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Why traditional thinking may be the riskiest strategy of all
June 23, 2011
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The low-cost, high-value approach to brand positioning research
June 21, 2011
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Don’t hate us because our office is beautiful
June 15, 2011
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Are the "Best Companies to Work For" really the best companies to work for?
June 15, 2011
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Three tired marketing words you should stop using
June 13, 2011
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The four questions your brand positioning research must answer
June 8, 2011
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Want people to embrace the open source way? Don’t talk, do.
May 25, 2011
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Thoughts on Long-Wave theory and Mayans: Is now the time for new kinds of organizations?
May 20, 2011
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Why does brand positioning matter and what must change?
May 12, 2011
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Mitsubishi’s gift to the community of people affected by the Japan earthquake
May 11, 2011
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The astrophysics of building a brand from the inside out
May 3, 2011
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How do you sell a community-based brand strategy to your executive team?
April 27, 2011
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Who will be the new face of openness at Google?
April 12, 2011
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Some authenticity advice from the Avett Brothers
April 5, 2011
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Does your organization think like Ptolemy?
March 28, 2011
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When authenticity matters most
March 25, 2011
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Cost savings in The Netherlands: Now you see it, now you don’t
March 23, 2011
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Interested in reinventing management? Come help me out.
March 11, 2011
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Which one of these is not like the other? Congressional Research Service and Transparency
March 10, 2011
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Of the community, not above the community
March 7, 2011
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This one goes out to the fence painters
March 1, 2011
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Lend some code to your local representative
February 28, 2011
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User-led innovation can’t create breakthroughs. Really?
February 16, 2011
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Five questions about open source and branding with Alina Wheeler
February 14, 2011
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Your open source management approach: Red Team or Blue Team?
February 7, 2011
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Time to chase a new kind of dream
February 1, 2011
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What does Google’s management change say about the open source way?
January 26, 2011
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A State of the Union address delivered the open source way?
January 25, 2011
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Is your brand out of control?
January 20, 2011
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I’m writing a book
January 3, 2011
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Studio H: A real-world experiment in design-based education
December 22, 2010
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Does WikiLeaks damage the brand image of wikis?
December 8, 2010
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De-bucketizing the org chart
December 6, 2010
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Avoid the tool trap when building communities
November 15, 2010
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Diversifying Saudi Arabia through open source and its university-by-design
November 10, 2010
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BetterMeans: a new app for running your organization the open source way
November 8, 2010
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Open innovation and open source innovation: what do they share and where do they differ?
November 1, 2010
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My newest hobby: Hacking management
October 26, 2010
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Apple, Google, and the open vs. closed positioning war
October 20, 2010
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What open source community?
October 18, 2010
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A community-building perspective on the Gap logo controversy
October 14, 2010
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Five questions about open innovation, open source, and NASA with Molly Dix of RTI
October 6, 2010
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Evaluating TEDx as a brand strategy
September 29, 2010
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The open source organization: Good in theory or good in reality?
September 27, 2010
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Brand positioning tip #13: Embedding positioning internally
September 22, 2010
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Are you building a community or a club?
September 15, 2010
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Want to reinvent management? Start with the managers.
August 30, 2010
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Reflections on Matthew Szulik and closing the ‘executive gap’
August 27, 2010
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New Public Spaces 2: Practical Design Guidelines
August 26, 2010
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Five questions about open innovation with Stefan Lindegaard
August 25, 2010
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Institutional innovation, Mark Twain, and John Seely Brown
August 19, 2010
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The official New Kind policy on policies
August 18, 2010
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Does your organization need a “no policy” policy?
August 17, 2010
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Ignoring the Law of Ownership gives hope for Alzheimers victims. And all of us.
August 13, 2010
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Planning ahead for a new breed of “public” spaces
August 9, 2010
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The King is dead; long live the king.
August 5, 2010
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OpenIDEO: A new experiment in open innovation
August 5, 2010
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Is your culture made of gold or fool’s gold?
August 4, 2010
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Quit marketing now tip #1: Default to personal communication
August 3, 2010
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Brand positioning tip #12: Don’t get hung up on the words
July 23, 2010
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MIX: Gary Hamel’s experiment in reinventing management the open source way
July 20, 2010
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Yesterday. All my troubles seemed so far away.
July 15, 2010
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The first strategic question
July 14, 2010
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Do you aspire to build a brand community or a community brand?
July 13, 2010
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The grasshoppers’ revenge
July 12, 2010
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The open source way: Designed for managing complexity?
July 8, 2010
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Two tips for meeting survival in an entrenched bureaucracy
June 21, 2010
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How to find a community’s cheeseheads when they aren’t wearing foam hats
June 21, 2010
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Trust: The catalyst of the open source way
June 7, 2010
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Five questions about authenticity and the open source way with Jim Gilmore
May 25, 2010
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Blinded by the plan
May 24, 2010
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Who moved my crystal ball?
May 17, 2010
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Toyota gives customer-driven design the green light
May 3, 2010
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Is the word “community” losing its meaning?
April 21, 2010
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Which is better: Efficient markets or efficient communities?
April 19, 2010
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Why the open source way trumps the crowdsourcing way
April 15, 2010
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Community-building tip: Surprise is the opposite of engagement
April 8, 2010
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Five questions about building community with Chris Blizzard of Mozilla
March 30, 2010
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Can truly great design be done the open source way?
March 22, 2010
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Is Jaron Lanier just a hater, or should we be paying attention?
March 16, 2010
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The Wikimedia Foundation: doing strategic planning the open source way
March 11, 2010
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Love, hate, and the Wikipedia contributor culture problem
March 8, 2010
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Five questions about the future of music with David Pakman
March 2, 2010
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Three tips for escaping the creativity peloton without giving up on collaboration
February 25, 2010
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A handbook for the open source way, written the open source way
February 22, 2010
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What if politicians innovated the open source way?
February 17, 2010
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Is the traditional business world at war with creativity?
February 11, 2010
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Building a practice out of building communities
January 27, 2010
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Design policy presentation and video featured on Slideshare
January 27, 2010
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Chris Grams Joins New Kind
January 25, 2010
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Open sourcing, crowd sourcing, and commodities
January 13, 2010
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Roasted Crow; recipes of the season
December 21, 2009
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Matthew Muñoz selected to participate in 2009 Design Policy Summit
November 24, 2009
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ChangePapers.org partner, Leslie Boney, named to North Carolina Innovation Council
November 18, 2009
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Georgia Tech Launches Center for Innovation in Local Government
November 10, 2009
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Trumping Innovation
November 9, 2009
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New Kind partners with the Institute for Emerging Issues
October 30, 2009
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The next challenge for open source
October 28, 2009
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Muñoz 20/20
October 15, 2009
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Machiavelli and Our New Challenge
October 15, 2009
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Burney Recognized As 2009 AIGA Fellow
October 14, 2009
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Look Who’s Talking too…
August 26, 2009
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Harvard Business Review and One Trend Designers Knew About
August 26, 2009
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Look who’s talking about design thinking and management
August 24, 2009
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Regional design groups like New Kind collaborate, innovate
August 12, 2009
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Dark matters and tribal matters: Grams v Godin
July 24, 2009
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Community building — branding, networked media and open sourcing
July 23, 2009
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Less fear and more determination
April 16, 2009
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Kiss it. It’ll stick better.
March 11, 2009
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Just who exactly is Matt Muñoz?
March 10, 2009
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With apologies to Garrison Keillor
March 10, 2009
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What would Henry Ford have to say about all this?
March 5, 2009
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Designer Obama
March 3, 2009
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Loyalty, shmloyalty
February 26, 2009
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That word again — Mavericks (Argh)
February 25, 2009
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