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  • Creativity versus Your Smartphone Addiction

    Creativity versus Your Smartphone Addiction

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    Brio Group

    I recently read this post by Ogilvy’s David Long, espousing the creative benefits of using a pen and notebook over purely digital means. Call me an old fuddy duddy, but I’ve always felt my best work comes from putting pen to paper. Reading David’s first point (“digital is distracting”) I was reminded of this TED…

  • Cut

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Recent findings from a number of large scale studies of consumers and their habits suggest that less choice equals more sales. Interestingly, secondary conclusions for this hypothesis suggest that less choice converted to quicker decision processing and therefore greater sale conversion. Could these findings be due to the time poor nature of consumer habits or…

  • Pinteresting Brands

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

      Earlier this year I came across Pinterest – an online  ‘scrap book’ that lets you organise and share images (and now videos) you find on the web. It instantly appealed to me as a ‘digital hoarder / collector / curator’ as a way to visually organise and display ideas for events, work presentations, home…

  • Must Watch: Eva Cox, TEDxBrisbane 2011 Talk

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I know, I know another TED talk. However, this talk which was part of TEDxBrisbane 2011 really is one of those talks you must watch. It was a highlight of my day at TEDxBrisbane and certainly makes you think. Enjoy! You can read more about Eva Cox here. Yours in social activism, Justine.

  • TEDxYouth Brisbane

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending TEDxYouthBrisbane at The Edge. The speakers were diverse and I loved the revised 10min talk format. It kept the pace of the day just right and you never felt like your attention was drifting. A firm favourite was Harrison Saragossi, a local photographer who was this year named…

  • Green School – Monday TED Talk

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The story of John Hardy and tbe Green School in Bali is an inspriring one.  Having recently come back from a business course in Bali where we had the opportunity to visit the Green School and be personally shown around by John. John started The Green School in Bali to give students a relevant, holistic and green…

  • Monday TED Talk: The rise of personal robots

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The Brio team started the week with this TED Talk by Cynthia Breazeal on the rise of personal robots. The Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) founded the Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group. She says in her talk: “Robots touch something deeply human within us. And so…

  • TEDspiration: Clay Shirky

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The Brio team started Monday with this talk by Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus.   [briotube]http://www.youtube.com/v/qu7ZpWecIS8?[/briotube]

  • Monday TED-spiration: Nurturing Creativity

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I have a confession. I’ve never read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat,Pray, Love. I’ve never had any urge to read her story of finding herself following the breakdown of her marriage. I will confess, I begrudgingly sat through the movie adaptation of the book and it didn’t rate for me. While I can’t explain why I’m yet…