Last Friday we had the pleasure of sponsoring Plywood Presents “Making Ideas Happen.” I was eager to attend and soak up the presence of some of our region’s most creative folks.kingofpops

Scott Belsky, founder of Behance and author, gave two fantastic presentations, and the day was rounded out by local creative entrepreneurs, including Michael Tavani of Scoutmob and new Atlanta fave The King of Pops!

We have a lot of creative people on the team here, and I know we have a ton of creative users as well.  It’s easy to get wrapped up in the “fun” part of creating (coming up with awesome ideas and sharing them with people) and forget that the end result should be…well…a result.

Most of us have so many ideas, all the time, and many of them never see the light of day. The mission of “Making Ideas Happen” was to light a fire and help creative people to also be productive people and bring their best concepts to life.

Here are some of my favorite tips from the presentations:

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RSS-to-Email Helps Fight Crime

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Douglass Karr over at the Marketing Technology Blog has helped develop a mobile alert plugin for a crime alert website in Indiana.  Alerts are also available as a once-daily email, which is powered using MailChimp’s RSS-to-Email feature!


Started November 1, 2008 and currently serving the Terre Haute and Bloominton, Indiana metro areas, B-Aware sends out crime alerts compiled from local police blotters.  The organization’s goal is to facilitate greater crime awareness amongst local residents.