Serious Play,, remember to do,, not only try

The book Serious Play has been a favorite of mine.

The main thing about it is,, PROTOTYPE.

That’s it,, go make it, play with it, destroy it, break it, and improve your product.

So in the line of doing just that, I’ve finally gone and set up an amazon affiliate setup with amazon.

This will be a new recurring feature here I’m calling Fred’s Bookshelf.  Look for it in the future,, look for a name change, and look for useful design, business, and fun books that I greatly reccomend.

We’ve hit the restart button

So I’ve finally got the upgrade done.  I’m such a chicken, it’s taken me months of fear to upgrade and well, it’s really all about the wordpress automatic upgrade plugin.

1. Install the plugin to your wordpress installation
2. (you know, go to your wordpress ftp site,
3. upload it to the wordpress plugin folder,
4. (make sure it uploads then log out of your ftp),
5. then log in to your wordpress site,
6. find the wordpress plugins,
7. find the wordpress automatic upgrad plugin,
8. activate it,
9. finally, follow the prompts.

It’s actually easy (rather than fear inducing,,  stupid stupid me.

Be on the lookout for more fun new products coming. In the mean time, we do have for purchase the bumper sticker holders (check em out here). We’re also awaiting approval for college licensing, we’re starting with just a few schools, and hopefully branching out big time!

We’re also talking to some up and coming car manufacturers among other companies. Remember, bumper sticker holders are great for putting up a bumper sticker,, and then being able to take it down after an election, without automotive surgery!

Machinations and more

Sometimes it’s just time to come out of hiding, step away from your shell, and pinch the nose of whoever wasn’t paying attention.

There are a bunch of designs and concepts that have been in the works for quite some time.

We’re almost to the release point of it all.  A bunch of concepts.

New designs, with the real possibility to make a dollar or two as well.

It’s been a lot of work, and there’s a ton more to go.

It’s about to get interesting!!

Wordle,, totally unnecessary,, but fun

I came across Wordle this morning as I stare out into the beautiful Maine greenery (I’m in Maine for a conference my wife is attending/holiday/getting my own work done (results pending)). Then Wordle.net popped into my crosshairs. In a word,, it’s useless, and needless, but it sure is fun and pretty and, if you’re a HEAVY Del.icio.us user like myself (feel free to jump in and take a look at my DS4tool links, they’re all about product development, startup, and other tips and tricks for small business, I save them, so you can use them).

Hopefully some big rollouts coming here soon, but till then here’s my Wordle cloud.

My apologies, I didn’t remark as to who brought wordle into my crosshairs this morning.