Interrelativity

Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness

  • Togetherness vs. Interaction: Enjoying Aloneness in a Crowd

    Chris Pluger wrote "Two Hours of Joint Solitude", a very thoughtful and provocative essay about his insights and experiences in a coffeehouse, sitting alone in a crowd, and philosophizing about issues of aloneness, togetherness and transcendence.  We haven’t fallen for a cleverly invented Madison Avenue advertising campaign when we gravitate towards coffee shops, where we…

  • Eclipse Aviation: Redefining the Value Proposition for Jet Travel

    Vern Raburn, President and CEO of Eclipse Aviation (mantra: "fly in the face of convention"), gave a rousing presentation at Friday’s NWEN Breakfast, describing how his company is redefining the value proposition for jet travel by making private jet travel — via a new generation of very light jets (VLJs) employed as air taxis —…

  • Public Relations, Branding, Integrity and Passion

    Parker LePla offered insights and experiences on The Essentials of PR and Brand Management at an Northwest Enterpreneur Network workshop this morning.  They characterized a brand as a "sustainable differentiator" that represents the intersection of what you do well, what your customers value and what is sustainable over time, embodying the vision, mission and core…

  • Business Plans and Angel Investors

    I attended two extremely helpful — and mutually reinforcing — entrepreneurial events last Thursday: a free (!) Business Plan Writing workshop offered through the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN) and a seminar on "An Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Angel Investing: Plan, Present and Negotiate" offered through the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest.  The former provided some…

  • Another Interrelativity Milestone: Helping People Relate at a Holiday Party

    Washburn Communication invited Interrelativity to deploy a proactive display at their holiday party at the Civica Office Commons in Bellevue yesterday.  I live (and work) for these deployments — it was great to have an opportunity to insert this social technology into a fabulous place like Civica and among so many interesting people!  About 25…

  • Better Coffee Through Chemextry

    Last week, I met Erik at the University Zoka (UZ) cafe (Zoka roasts — and brews — the best coffee in Seattle … my favorite is their organic Tatoosh Blend).   I arrived early, and got to talking with Sam, who was getting ready to brew a new batch of coffee … and was kind enough…

  • The Wahwah Model for Breakthrough Ideas

    Kathy Sierra has returned to the blogosphere with yet another inspiring and provocative post, this time about what she and her colleagues call the EQ model for breakthrough ideas, based on a sound equalizer (EQ) metaphor with various sliders used to model features and potential features in a new product or service.  Kathy suggests that…

  • A Few Notes on Work, Play and Suffering

    I’ve encountered a number of interesting and inspiring thoughts about work and play and suffering in the past 24 hours.  As much as I am tempted to explore some of these further, I want even more to get to work [on other things] right now.  I’m simply going to post the links here, with a…

  • Third International Conference on Communities and Technologies

    A rather early announcement on the conference website: In an increasingly networked world, the concept of community has taken on new meanings and inspired the development of a wide range of technologies aimed at forging connections, improving communication, and enabling coordination among groups of people. Today, such terms as virtual community, blogging, podcasting, and smart…

  • CineVend: An Innovation for Enabling Impulse Buying

    Greg Kriegler, president of CineVend (mantra: "Take the experience home"), gave an impressive 5-Minute Forum presentation yesterday at the Northwest Entrepreneur Network Venture Breakfast.  He gave such a concise description of his business, I’ll simply quote it here: Cinevend develops, owns, operates and sells innovative vending machines with a focus on media vending. The company’s…