http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:21:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/good-ideas-salon-mexico-communities.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:51:23 +0000 On Tuesday, February 2nd, PSFK, Leonardo and Mandalah will present Good Ideas Salon Mexico: Communities.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/good-ideas-for-2010-go-gently.html Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:00:20 +0000 Here’s a preview of one idea from our new Good Ideas for 2010 book.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/good-ideas-for-2010-guide.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:00:34 +0000 Here’s a preview of one idea from our new Good Ideas for 2010 book.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/good-ideas-for-2010-hark.html Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:00:25 +0000 Here’s a preview of one idea from our new Good Ideas for 2010 book.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/good-ideas-for-2010-confuse.html Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:51:48 +0000 Here's a preview of one idea from our new Good Ideas for 2010 book.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/12/cause-related-marketing-why-pepsi-sits-on-the-super-bowl-sidelines.html Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:09:47 +0000 In a bold strategic move, Pepsi has dropped its entire Super Bowl advertising budget to focus on the new Pepsi Refresh Project.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/youtube-presents-good-ideas-salon-bay-area-good-ideas-in-community.html Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:13:49 +0000 PSFK is proud to announce news that we will host a Good Ideas Salon with YouTube next month. On 6th August 2009, PSFK and YouTube will host a Good Ideas Salon in the Bay Area. For the event, Mia Quagliarello (Product Marketing Manager – Community YouTube) will moderate a panel of community experts — Jen Burton (Senior Community Manager, Digg), Heather Champ (Director of Community, Flickr) and Matthew Stinchcomb (VP – Community, Etsy) — to discuss what can be learned from the passionate people who visit these sites, how relationships are fostered at scale, ways to engage with users, andRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/run-a-good-ideas-salon-in-your-city.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:54:11 +0000 Good Ideas Salons are small events held to spread ideas. Normally held around a theme the talks are videoed and added to our website so that people can view and share discussions around the world. PSFK has now held over 10 events and our friends are beginning to run these Salons in their cities. We’d like for our readers to host a Good Ideas Salon in their city to bring together likeminded communities and share ideas that inspire much needed positivity. Recent events include Good Ideas In Collaboration in NYC and Good Ideas In Media in Toronto. Next week BrettRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/good-ideas-and-youth-at-good-ideas-salon-london.html Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:00:31 +0000 This past January, PSFK held a Good Ideas Salon in London bringing together the most forward-thinking tastemakers, innovators, and experts from around the world to discuss key areas steering innovation and opportunity.  Moderated by PSFK’s own Jeff Squires, the Good Ideas and Youth panel discussed trends in British youth culture and how companies and organizations can create authentic, respectful relationships with young people.  Panelist include Jenny Owen (Ruby Pseudo), Paul Graham (Anomaly UK), Terry Guy (Monorex / Secret Wars), and Brett Booth (MTV). Questioning whether or not youth can always be seen as a barometer for what is to come,Read more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/good-ideas-in-mobile-at-good-ideas-salon-london.html Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:56:24 +0000 This past January, PSFK held a Good Ideas Salon in London bringing together the most forward-thinking tastemakers, innovators, and experts from around the world to discuss key areas steering innovation and opportunity. For our mobile section, PSFK‘s Piers Fawkes moderated a panel that included Dan Hon (Six To Start), Mike Butcher (TechCrunch UK), Matt Jones (Dopplr) and Jonathan MacDonald (Ogilvy) on how the everpresense of mobile is unveiling new, exciting ways for us to explore, work, and play. The panel laid the groundwork by emphasizing that mobile development is about people, not technology, and the intersection of these two willRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/richard-banks-on-good-ideas-over-time-at-good-ideas-salon-london.html Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:00:14 +0000 This past January, PSFK held a Good Ideas Salon in London bringing together the most forward-thinking tastemakers, innovators, and experts from around the world to discuss key areas steering innovation. There, Richard Banks (Microsoft) spoke about what he refers to as “digital heirlooms” and discussed the histories we are creating about ourselves through digital media and how future generations will interact with the artifacts we leave behind. Richard considered the current products of our technology, such as the thousands of digital photos taken by people each year, and discussed their endurance over time. While previous generations left tangible objects, ourRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/christian_nold.html Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:58:03 +0000 This past January, PSFK brought together our favorite innovators and thought leaders for our Good Ideas Salon London. There, Christian Nold, artist, designer and educator famous for his Biomapping project, discussed how design can create systems of trust within communities. Picking up where the design panel left off, Christian elaborated on how new, performative and embodied approaches to engaging our surroundings and those around us can create powerful change and how designers can leverage technology to develop social relations through democratic procedures. Coupled with a background in fine art, Christian describes the various ethnographic techniques he employs to find outRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/good-ideas-in-design-at-good-ideas-salon-london.html Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:26:47 +0000 This past January, PSFK hosted the Good Ideas Salon London. For our Good Ideas in Design session, long time PSFK contributor Amanda Gore led an eclectic panel, including Cameron Leslie, founder of the Fabric and Matter nightclubs, Coralie Bickford-Smith, designer of amazing book covers for Penguin books, Kate Moross, creative extraordinaire, and Nicolas Roope, founder of Poke and Hulger in a conversation on how design can-and must- weave a story between an audience and a product, service, and brand. The panel spoke quite extensively about the creative process and there seemed to be a general consensus amongst the panelist thatRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/good-ideas-from-london-panel-video-at-good-ideas-saloon-london.html Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:30:40 +0000 This past January, PSFK hosted the Good Ideas Salon London. After Mark Earls spoke on Why Good Ideas Matter, the discussion moved to a panel of Londoners who discussed Good Ideas from London. Given the question: “What positive inspiration is growing out of London’s creative renaissance?”, moderator Matt Hardisty (AnalogFolk), Matt Brown (Londonist), Justin Quirk (FHM), Taryn Ross (Urban Junkies), and Paul Andrew Williams (Steel Mill Pictures) explored empirical evidence used to compare the current creative climate of London to previous years to prove that London is still thriving culturally. The panel discussed particular reasons why London was creatively uniqueRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/28089.html Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:30:14 +0000 This past January, PSFK hosted the Good Ideas Salon London. Starting the day off, Mark Earls, author of Herd, began by discussing the importance of gathering inspiration across categories, market sectors, and groups – and ultimately, how to turn those insights into mass change. Effectively, Mark explains why innovation is important. Mark Earls stressed that innovation is an exercise that needs to be practiced.  The mere process of looking for new ideas allows you to challenge whether or not your existing ones are any good. Even if a new idea is not perfect, it can still shine a new lightRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/good-ideas-salons-london-vancouver-beyond.html Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:46:35 +0000 PSFK is proud to announce the roll out of our Good Ideas Salons format. After a successful series of talk-&-mix events in London and New York, we were asked by our friends when we would hold the salons in their city. In response, we suggested they host the Good Ideas Salons with our help. So from March 17 there will be an ever increasing number of salons taking place on the same date around the world. All of the details will be presented on a central website www.goodideassalons.com and all of the videos from the events will be posted thereRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/streamlining-your-content-to-the-web.html Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:10:28 +0000 Technology is generally meant to make life easier, but often users are bogged down in complicated process with programing, uploading and sharing their many different gadgets.  Eye-Fi, the maker of location-aware memory cards that can wirelessly upload data, has continued to expand their capabilities.  Just this week, they added a new card that can wirelessly upload video and another that can automatically geotag your video. The system automatically uploads your data onto sites you deem appropriate, such as Flickr, YouTube or Facebook. The newest geotagging-enabled card automatically labels your photos by location and lets you upload from more than 10,000Read more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/your-favorite-ideas-from-good-ideas-salon-london.html Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:45:21 +0000 This past January, PSFK held a Good Ideas Salon in London bringing together the most forward-thinking tastemakers, innovators, and experts from around the world to discuss key areas steering innovation and opportunity.  In addition to the good ideas presented, we wanted to hear what our audience had to say, so we did a series of posts containing feedback and comments from the event sourced from blogs, magazines, and twitter. With the help of Isobar, we’ve been highlighting the very best ideas from the talks that caught the audience’s attention. Now it’s time to vote for the overall best idea. ReadRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/audience-thoughts-from-the-good-ideas-in-design-panel.html Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:59:52 +0000 This past January, PSFK held a Good Ideas Salon in London bringing together the most forward-thinking tastemakers, innovators, and experts from around the world to discuss key areas steering innovation and opportunity.  In addition the the good ideas presented, we wanted to hear what our audience had to say, so we’re doing a series of posts containing feedback and comments from the event sourced from blogs, magazines, and twitter.  We’ve distilled the commentary, now you tell us which is the best idea… For the design panel, we invited some of our favorite creative minds to comment on what aspects ofRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/audience-thoughts-on-why-good-ideas-matter.html Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:00:50 +0000 This past January, PSFK held a Good Ideas Salon in London bringing together the most forward-thinking tastemakers, innovators, and experts from around the world to discuss key areas steering innovation and opportunity.  In addition the the good ideas presented, we wanted to hear what our audience had to say, so we’re doing a series of posts containing feedback and comments from the event sourced from blogs, magazines, and twitter.  We’ve distilled the commentary, now you tell us which is the best idea… At the Good Ideas Salon London, Mark Earls, author of Herd, started the day off by discussing theRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/taking-the-youth-out-of-youth-culture.html Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:21:12 +0000 One of the ideas that came up last week during the youth panel at our Good Ideas Salon in London, was that the term ‘youth,’ when referring to an entire generation (or two), is a massive oversimplification. No more can you generalize the varied actions of adults as being part of an ‘adult culture’ can you generalize the behaviors of youth as being reflective of a ‘youth culture.’  Where adults are given any number of demographics to fit into, based on age, class, gender, race, or lifestyle, young people are predominantly still dumped into the graffiti-lined bucket of ‘youth.’ WhileRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/video-good-ideas-for-the-future-from-team-psfk.html Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:01:13 +0000 Following this past Tuesday’s panel discussion on Good Ideas for the Future, where a group of cultural and business experts discussed how they believe 2009 will pan out, PSFK’s regular contributors were invited to take the stage and share a good idea of their own. We encouraged everyone to look back through all their previous articles from the past year and share one idea that they personally found inspiring.  From urban projections to ambient social activities, this short video clip provides a nice round up of 2008 and will hopefully provide a bit of inspiration for you in 2009. WATCHRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/video-good-ideas-for-the-future.html Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:57:30 +0000 Concluding our series of Good Idea Salons, last night’s panel spoke about good ideas for the future.  A daunting topic, the conversation covered everything from whether or not business fundamentally has the ability to find a balance between being ‘good’ and turning a profit to greenwashing and the environment to the possibility that the current economic crisis might actually be a good thing. Moderated by Piers Fawkes (PSFK), the panel includes Bart Haney (fuseproject), Danielle Sacks (Fast Company), Polly LaBarre (Mavericks at Work), and Tamara Giltsoff (OZOlab). WATCH COMPLETE SERIES: Good Ideas In Mobile - Featuring Allison Mooney (PSFK/Mobile Behavior),Read more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/lesson-to-be-learned-from-shaping-our-online-identities.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:33:37 +0000 At our Good Ideas in 2009: Digital salon yesterday, much of the conversation surrounded how our online identities are created, both actively – through our own decisions of what we share about ourselves – and passively – through the actions and perceptions of others.   Given that we only have control over half of that equation, how do we ensure that the best and brightest portrait of ourselves is seen by the wider community? Piers posited his “Red Coat, Black Coat” theory back in 2006, which proved to be a harbinger of conversations to come about approaches to online privacyRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/video-good-ideas-in-2009-in-collaboration.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:53:46 +0000 Last Tuesday, we took our Good Idea Salon to Naked’s office space, where a packed audience sat in on our panel discussion about collaboration. Moderated by Colin Nagy (Attention/PSFK), the panel discussed innovations in how businesses, organizations and ordinary people are working together.  The panel included Amit Gupta (Jelly/Photojojo), Andrew Hoppin (NASA), John Geraci (Outside.In/DIYCity), and Matthew Stinchcomb (Etsy). WATCH COMPLETE SERIES: Good Ideas In Mobile - Featuring Allison Mooney (PSFK/Mobile Behavior), Kevin Slavin (area/code), Alistair Fulton (Deloitte), Florian Peter (CScout) and Steve Roberts (Shoptext) Good Ideas In Design – Featuring Dave Pinter (PSFK/GRID2 International), Craig Dubitsky (The Kind Group),Read more...]]>