Create a $2,000 digital white board with a Wii controller.

You ever have such a great white board session you did not want to erase the board? You had someone come in and recreate the board on a legal pad because you were too cheap to spring the two large for a real interactive board. That sounds barbaric and it can now be a thing of the past just using a $40 Wii controller.

If you ever want to get a head full of great ideas, go to TED. TED is a collection of thinkers and doers that have conferences and upload the content for free. This is very significant. If you wanted to attend a conference, your date needs to be a sandy blonde six thousand dollar check! Oh, and you need to be invited! TED is not cheap, but he is smart. They take the 80/20 rule to new levels of perversity by allowing you to “Join for free.” You can exchange ideas with other “members.” You do not even need to be a member to watch the videos. Next, “let’s make TED so hot, if you wait for the videos it’s plain medieval. Only a middle level corporate hack would not want to attend the live shows and be ahead of the crowd. You will get a jump on the rest of the planet for the very latest, cutting edge ideas. You must pay to play in the VIP club.”

These are the voices my marketing sonar has detected from the TED people. It works for me, they win at all levels. The free videos of past conferences are all sponsored. I personally can stomach a few 15 second BMW ads to save $6,000 how about you? Actually you could afford to let a BMW run over your right leg by letting your mind take a plunge into these creative waters. One broken leg, $200 bucks with co pay. A mind full of fresh fertile brain soil, priceless.

I love their marketing and their content. You can learn a lot by going to TED.

Learn how to make a digital whiteboard using a $40 Wii controller.

Experience ideas worth spreading.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/

PS, they even have me thinking about attending the 2009 conference, I am a sucker for great ego meat marketing.

Creativity is a real mess!

Scientists and creationist can agree on one thing at least. The act of creating the universe was messy! I am a creationist that also believes that science is proof of God, not a substitution for Him. I did say Him, sorry Hillary. Science and God must co-exist happily or else it just does not add up for me. I also have a theory explaining the paradox of why the earth is 4.5 Billion years old and why it has only been 6,000 years since Adam was asked to leave the garden before checkout. I agree with both statements 100%! If you are a creationist, you cannot just say, well God went “poof” and don’t ask so many silly science questions. Also the idea that we are here by an evolutionary spin of the roulette wheel does not add up completely the way the Darwinian argument is laid out.

It does have an ironic mind bending truth to it however. Like saying an iPod evolved from mud. It sounds absurd, but the iPod actually did evolve from mud, it just took longer than you can remember. In a roundabout way we all came from mud.

Here is one for the front pew, from Genesis, the book, not the band! We were created out of the “dust of the earth.” The reason scientists can prove we did evolve from dirt is because it is true! That does not make my really great Grandpa a banana eater however, that’s absurd. Evolving from a monkey and evolving from dirt are two separate things. One is false and one is true. Give me a ring sometime and I would love to chat with you about it, amongst other things running around in my head.

Let’s get back to the creation. This is something we do not all figure out while we are here. I mean, it took us 6,000 years to put wheels on our luggage! We really are timid when it comes to creativity because we are terrified of making a mistake. This is how I see the creation. It was messy! Pressure, fire, thunder, explosions of atomic proportions then God sent the accountants to clean up the mess. It is just like creating a great franchise or any brand really. Don’t be afraid to create a mess at first. If you are too timid, the result will be bland, average and definitely not extraordinary. You must be willing to get a little crap on the walls if you want to smell the roses later on.