Our Perspectives

ULI Sustainable Program Site

We recently worked with the SC chapter of ULI to develop a nano-site for a new sustainable growth leadership program. Called the ULI South Carolina Center for Sustainable Leadership, it's...

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A Morning Roller Coaster Ride

After our latest upgrade to OSX Leopard, Photo Booth for Mac comes with some pretty nifty options. Here's RP and MH taking a morning ride. Heavy-duty video editing courtesy of...

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Stop Bad Powerpoint

Not sure who was the first to proclaim...Power corrupts, Powerpoint corrupts absolutely (Edward Tufte?)......but it's definitely a truism. Sitting through the Bill Gates platform presentation above would be torture. Fret...

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Seamon Whiteside + Associates

We just launched a brand new site for Seamon Whiteside + Associates, a top notch landscape architecture and civil engineering firm in Mount Pleasant and Greenville, SC. They have projects...

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Worldviews Beat Checklists

Reading George Lakoff's Thinking Points right now (thank you, Charlie Sneed). While it's a politically focused book, Lakoff's perspective on the role of values and language in building a movement...

Marketing & Tech
Count Them Bills

Fun fact: not everyone counts their money like we do. Here's a few examples of how people from other countries/cultures count their cash.

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All Aboard!

At Blue Ion, we've always been advocates of alternative transportation. Of course, people drive to work primarily... but collectively we've walked, rode bikes, carpooled with other employees, and even taken...

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Two Big Yahoo! Product Announcements

A couple of neat product announcements from Yahoo! came out over the last couple of days. First up is their "Open Search Platform," which allows third parties (like Blue Ion,...

Marketing & Tech
Tongue Brushing

Spot on parody of the marketing/advertising biz...by the ever clever That Mitchell and Webb Look.

Marketing & Tech
Snooks Beware

We converted another - this time, an individual whose home country specifically bans gun ownership. Oh... yeah, she's a girl.

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