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Coursera: Leading Strategic Innovations in Organizations

March 29, 2013 by mgena 2 Comments

I’m about half-way through the course offered by David A. Owens, Professor of the Practice of Management and Innovation at Vanderbilt’s Graduate School of Management, where he directs the Executive Development Institute.  I’m enjoying the course, partly because I’m highly interested in innovation and how it happens, but also because Owens delivers the course well.  He’s […]

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Courses: Gamification and Human-Computer Interaction on Coursera

March 28, 2013 by mgena 0 Comments

I’m a learning junkie, and have just completed my fifth course on Coursera, with three others underway.  Two of the courses I particularly enjoyed were Gamification and Human-Computer Interaction, and both are set to begin their next run in the next few days.  Human-Computer Interaction begins on March 31, and Gamification on April 1.  If […]

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A Glimpse of the Next Generation of App Designers

March 16, 2013 by mgena 1 Comment

Check out this Balsamiq blog post about a group of 8th-graders from Bullis Charter School who are being taught how to design and build apps.  Totally inspiring!  I was born before most of the world could conceive of “apps,” though by the time I was in high school, we did have a handful of computers with […]

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First Impressions: Sprintly for Agile Product Management

February 25, 2013 by mgena 2 Comments

A few weeks ago, I attended the first StartUp Product Summit in San Francisco, and I was really happy with the event.  I shared some thoughts about my favorite speakers after I attended, but since then, I’ve also been checking out the products some of those speakers make.  I’ve been kicking around an idea for […]

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Book Review: Sketching User Experiences

February 13, 2013 by mgena 0 Comments

Last fall, I took a Human-Computer Interaction course offered by Stanford’s Scott Klemmer on Coursera, and one of the books he recommended was Bill Buxton’s Sketching User Experiences.  Subtitled, ‘getting the design right and the right design,’ the book is highly engaging and full to the brim with rich content.  Published in 2007, the title […]

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My take on the StartUp Product Summit

February 8, 2013 by mgena 1 Comment

Yesterday was the first “StartUp Product Summit,” co-produced by Cindy F. Solomon and Nadia Eghbal, and I felt it was an unqualified success.  The energy in the room was palpable, and the team designed the day to be not only informative, but also very interactive.  The crowd was welcoming; it small enough to have the opportunity […]

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Guest Post: MOOCs – Boon or Bane

December 14, 2012 by mgena 0 Comments

While I’ve been knee-deep in Udacity’s CS-253 Web Development course, I’ve also been exchanging emails with Soumabha of Bytes and Banter. He, too, has been taking advantage of courses at Udacity and Coursera, so I asked him what he thought the pros and cons of these new educational systems are. Below are a few of […]

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Compare and Contrast: Udacity vs Coursera

November 13, 2012 by mgena 0 Comments

I decided recently to brush up on my coding skills, because I haven’t really exercised them in a while, so I took the opportunity to try a course at Udacity to kill two birds with one stone.  I’ve been using Coursera for a few months now, and I was curious to see how Udacity compared […]

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Coursera: Human-Computer Interaction

November 6, 2012 by mgena 2 Comments

I promised recently that I’d talk about a project I’m working on for the Human-Computer Interaction course I’m taking through Coursera.  The course takes us through a standard design process, starting with a very short and broad design brief and applying various methods to understand user needs.  Students move through 2-3 iterations of prototyping, beginning […]

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Book Review: Kill the Company

October 29, 2012 by mgena 0 Comments

Early this past summer, I blogged about an article on an innovation book that I couldn’t wait to get my hands on, and it was every bit as good as I thought it would be.  Kill the Company, subtitled End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution was written by Lisa Bodell, CEO of Futurethink. […]

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Coursera Update

October 28, 2012 by mgena 0 Comments

I am in free course heaven these days!  I blogged earlier about the Gamification course I started with, which was excellent.  I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about the concept.  There are quite a few misconceptions about what Gamification is (for instance, it is not the same thing as game development […]

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Clever Features: Betabrand (Too many to list)

October 26, 2012 by mgena 0 Comments

I hate marketing emails.  I get them no matter how hard I try not to and no matter how many times I unsubscribe.  It’s an annoying fact of Internet life, I guess.  There is one exception, though, and when I realized today that I actually open and read the emails I get from Betabrand every […]

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Clever Features: Ford Escape Foot-Activated Liftgate

September 16, 2012 by mgena 3 Comments

Normally when I think about clever features, I’m thinking about software, as in Gmail’s brilliant attachment prompt, and WordPress’s smart logo redirect.  I caught a commercial on TV today, though, for the Ford Escape that demonstrated the new foot-activated liftgate.  Check out this article and video on Forbes.com.  It struck a chord because I think […]

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