Is It Play or Work? (or Play + Science = Transformation)

I sometimes listen to Krista Tippett’s Speaking of Faith on NPR.  This Sunday’s show was an interview with Dr. Stuart Brown, a physician and director of the National Institute for Play.
First of all, I never heard of the National Institute for Play – and didn’t know that people were devoting their life to studying play. [...]

What Kind of Catalyze Member Are You?

Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff are analysts at Forrester who cover the social technology., media and networking space.
In a recent blog entry, they summarized their findings on social technographics.  Here is an excerpt of their report that is pertains to Catalyze. 
“At the heart of Social Technographics is consumer data that looks at how consumers approach [...]

Protocasting – Taking Prototyping To a New Level

I ran across an interesting blog post by Robert Hoeckman, Jr. today on “protocasting” and wanted to share it with the Catalyze community. 
What is a protocast?  I am a big proponent of prototyping or simulations as words alone just do not do justice when trying to explain a new system or functionality.  However, Robert’s techniques takes prototyping [...]

Spend It On Beckham

In case you don’t follow soccer (if you’re in the US) or football (elsewhere in the world), the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer recently lured English soccer phenom David Beckham to the US for a reported $250 million over 5 years.
Until last night, David has been a bit of a bust on the [...]

Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

We all tend to get in ruts in our professional and personal lives, and stay in our comfort zone because it is, well, comfortable and safe.

My end of summer challenge for Catalyze members is to stop being complacent and do something about it.  It could be something big or small; it may be as easy [...]