I’ve felt that way at conferences. I feverishly take notes, trying to jot down everything that might be useful in the future, only to file them away upon my return home.
Tag: creativity
Innovation: How a hamster ball became an activity at the mall, part 2
One of the things that defines our ministry at SpringHill Camps is our commitment to innovation. Over the years, the ministry has created new activities, been on the leading edge of camp philosophy, and often been a go-to for other organizations looking for ideas. But the work of innovation is hard. And our tendency is […]
Innovation: Why good ideas aren’t good enough, part 1
This is my profile in the 1997 edition of John Brown University’s facebook. In 1997, I was on a team of students that used our university’s only digital camera (for real) to produce what we called facebook. It was a squareish paperback book hybrid, somewhere between a yearbook and a phonebook. Sound familiar? The cover was […]
A Better Idea
My freshman graphic design professor, Mr. Andrus, if he taught us one thing, it was that the best idea never came before the hundredth idea.