our thinking for August 2009…

1. August 31st, 2009

   Hot Summer Nights: the Substance August recap

   And you thought the heat wave in Portland was caused by weather variations and prevailing winds and global warming and what-have-you. Wrong. It’s because we’ve been busy on some hot stuff. Here’s a quick rundown of the things we can tell you about that went down in August, in no particular order… Ride Oregon Ride / RideOregonRide.com Sometimes opportunities arise that combine what you…

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… News, Solutions

2. August 25th, 2009

   The Traveler’s Journey at South by Southwest

   Since the beginning of time, people have traveled from one place to another. Over mountains, through valleys, across oceans, exiting the atmosphere… there’s something in the genetic code of humans to explore. Nowadays, most of us don’t just forge out into uncharted lands. First we do some planning. And most of that planning, research and exploration is done online. From booking…

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Events, News

3. August 24th, 2009

   The New Communicators

   At Friday’s Coffee with Likemind, we had a rather big announcement: The New Communicators New Communicators are compelled to engage in conversation. They stand taller and stride farther when traversing the current media landscape. They are a mixture of digital and analog. Their message is everything interactive. Everything transmissive. Communicating is a give-and-take, speaking-and-listening, and New Communicators utilize a mixture of new…

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Events, News

4. August 17th, 2009

   Coffee with Likemind – August 21st

   We’re back for what will probably be the last back patio coffee with Likemind of the summer at Tiny’s (after this Friday, we’ll be moving back to the Stumptown Ace for the Fall/Winter/Spring coffee season). As of today, Friday looks to be a spectacular way to close out the outdorr coffee season. Based on the great group and engaging conversation we…

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Events

5. August 7th, 2009

   Substance Rolling Coffee – Thursday, August 13th

   In honor of recently launching RideOregonRide.com (more on this in the next few days, but the quick summary is it’s an “everything about cycling in Oregon” website we concepted, designed and developed with Travel Oregon), we thought it would be a fitting reward to get away from our computers for a bit and take a short bike ride. And based…

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Events, News