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Office Transformations: From Workplace to Playspace by Pamela Meyer

by Tim Frick

A detailed roadmap for engendering creativity and engagement into your business.

Being creative on the fly is tough. To sustain that creativity over years for a wide variety of clients who may or may not share your vision is even tougher. Every artist wrestles with the concept of art vs. commerce and in many cases the two are often mutually exclusive. At Mightybytes, we constantly struggle with balancing the needs of project timelines and budgets while still devising great creative solutions on demand. Every creative firm worth their salt does (if they tell you otherwise, they're lying). Engaging in extracurricular creative activities—brewing beer, playing in rock bands, doing improv and enrolling in writing workshops, to name a few—gives us a leg up, but ultimately this struggle is an ongoing challenge that is especially difficult in trying economic times. This conundrum is both how we thrive and one of the company's biggest continuous tests.

It is with this in mind that I read Pamela Meyer's book From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning, and Changing through Dynamic Engagement

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Mightybrew News: Beer is Here. And then it’s not.

by Stacy

Cold and tasty, the new Mightybrew selections were home-brewed, bottled, capped, and hand-labeled by the crew just in time for the Return on Engagement Book Launch party.

As doors opened on the party, over 200 beers were ready for thirsty partygoers. Extreme Chicago heat during the event and a shaky performance by the central air in our new space led to repeat ice cooler visits by sweaty attendees and the near complete decimation of our supply. 

The beers were named during regular company meetings over the past few weeks and labels created mere hours before our shindig. 

What did we discover? This batch tastes even better than last year's batch.

 

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The Power of Pull: David Siegel’s Semantic Future

by Tim Frick

David Siegel's book Pull outlines a semantic future that is equally Orwellian and utopian.

I've been wrestling with the semantic web for a while, trying to figure out specifically what it meant for Mightybytes and what it could do for our customers. Focal Press suggested I include information on semantic search in Return on Engagement and that provided the impetus for me to really wrap my head around its admittedly sometimes esoteric concepts. As part of this process, I purchased numerous books on the topic, many of which read like a dissertation and typically put me to sleep after just a few pages (admittedly, most of them were never finished). None put semantic web concepts into as much relevant context as Pull by David Siegel. 

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10 Tips for Return on Engagement

by Stacy

Author Tim Frick shares an exclusive ‘10 Tips for Increasing Online Engagement’ list on the Return on Engagement page on Amazon.com.

Tim shares starting points to help you build credibility and ultimately foster engagement with customers, connections, and community members. The tip list topics include:

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Top 5 Things at DrupalCon SF 2010

by Stacy

Where do developers go to drool over new features and swap sci-fi stories? DrupalCon of course.

Steve and James attended DrupalCon 2010 in San Francisco and here are the top five things they found most impressive:

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