Committing to Brilliance by Reading RSS Feeds

Since we published a textbook on research, our publishers approached Susan and I about helping them develop a workshop about “cultivating intellectual curiosity.” Of course, I took the “geeky” direction and started suggesting different technologies with RSS Feeds, Social Bookmarking, and Personal Portals being the first three. As we continued to bounce around ideas, I came up with the phrase “Hacking Innovation.” Although I only did the one hours “Committing to Brilliance by Reading RSS Feeds” workshop at the retreat, I developed the draft of the entire “Hacking Innovation” workshop series website.

Most of the time I do workshops with educators, this workshop was different because it was for folks in the textbook publishing industry. First and foremost they were business folks; however, they were also in an education related field and privileged education. I thoroughly enjoyed doing the RSS workshop and would love to do the others. I can imagine doing this workshop series with researchers, education administrators, and other folks that work in the “real world.”

The five workshops/technologies that make up the Hacking Innovation workshop series are motivated by the question: What are some tools and technologies might help move brilliance beyond the idea stage into the innovation stage? The five topics:

• Committing to Brilliance by Reading RSS Feeds
• Exploring Ideas with Alternative Search Engines
• Tracking Innovations with Social Bookmarking
• Making Connections with Mind Maps
• Developing Innovations with Personal Portals

January 27 2010 | Posted in Workshops