The Evolving Design of Swift Kick
When we started we wanted to make a mark as a company. The goal was to be bigger than just speaking, bigger than the individuals involved, but actually establish a brand that a network could grow with. So on our early Dance Floor Theory presentation slides, we put our logo: Every single slide had the […]
Smaller, Faster, DFT for Info
I’m working on becoming a faster poster. It seems like a totally normal phase for bloggers to go through. One of my personal strengths is thinking. One of my personal weaknesses is thinking too much. Blogging lands squarely on the edge of that two sided coin. When I think, write and share, that’s good. Often […]
Wesley College [IMAGE]
Jenn Blackwell just emailed us some pictures from a recent Dance Floor Theory Leadership Training we did at Wesley College. Looks like it was a bit too much fun to call it work. This reiterates my point that student leaders are amazing. They are willing to say “yes” to a new opportunity. It doesn’t take […]
Using Sid Meier’s Civilization in the Classroom
Schools should embrace, at times, what is being created in the commercial world. Civilization is a perfect example. Does anyone know of any History or Economics teachers who are using Civilization in their classroom? It would great to have a case study on it.
The Design Frame
Whitespace design (Yellowspace, Blackspace, etc.) has been a hot choice the past few years as some high-profile companies started using it as their anti-marketing response to the more common image-overload approach. To determine our marketing style, it is important for us to move past the descriptors that we like and rather focus on our beliefs […]
The Aim of Education
Peter Scholtes**’ diagram shows what we are facing right now as humans interacting with technology. So for those of us that are older, we may see this diagram within the context of our lives, our personal history. For those of us that are younger, this diagram is not about history but just about the fact […]
The Developing Business Model
We didn’t start this company to become speakers. The vision of the company is much bigger: “A world in which individuals find their own potential while helping others explore theirs.” (We’ll smooth that sentence one day, but the idea still gets across : ) We see education as facilitation of potential. We aim to make […]
Our First NACA Flashmob [VIDEO]
For the past 6 months, Kevin and I talked about the idea of pulling off a Flashmob at NACA or APCA. Up to this point, it was just talking, but we changed that at a recent NACA West conference. It started with finding the technology. The company we found allows a person to text “swiftkick” […]