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Behance founder Scott Belsky recently spoke on Penguin’s podcast, “The Business Beat.” The theme of the episode was bridging the gap between having a vision and solving a problem. Host Courtney Young talks to Belsky about how creative people can become more productive by getting organized, building a supportive community, and gleefully killing ideas.

Visit Penguin’s “The Radio Room” to listen to the Podcast!

* The interview is the third video down in the tab, titled “Beyond the Book: Making Ideas Happen.”

Starting this March, Behance Founder Scott Belsky has a new series of articles on GOOD Magazine Blog called “Making Good Ideas Happen.” In the inaugural edition, Belsky advises on “How to Overcome Idea-to-idea Syndrome.”

Ideas are worthless if you can’t make them happen… Drawing on years of research and hundreds of interviews, Behance Founder and CEO Scott Belsky chronicles the methods of exceptionally productive creative leaders and teams in his new book, Making Ideas Happen, in stores April 15, 2010. Google’s Ji Lee calls it, “a Swiss Army knife for ideas.” And who doesn’t need one of those?

For pre-orders & more information: http://the99percent.com/book

We’re excited to announce that, for the third year in a row, Action Method Mobile is a finalist in South By Southwest’s Interactive Awards! AMI is up for the award in the Mobile category of the 13th Annual SXSW Web Awards.
 
 
 

This week, Business Week featured an article by Behance’s founder, Scott Belsky on the timely topic of Crowdsourcing. He discusses the perils and the promises of tapping the creative community at large for work and “unlocking the potential of the masses.” Scott lays out ideas for how to fix Crowdsourcing so that client and creative talent alike may benefit.

Crowdsourcing is Broken: How To Fix It

This week, The Great Work Blog talked to Scott, and their interview just went up in the form of an audio conversation. They discussed why looking to the short-term can be a powerful execution strategy, how to overcome the tragedy that most ideas are born and lost in isolation, and why “acting without conviction” can be a good straggly for keeping things going.  Have a listen to the interview for some inspiration this Friday.

Last week, we spoke to Plywood People, a website that aims to address social needs by “searching for social problems with the hope to match them with entrepreneurial creativity to organize, innovate, and manage ideas that produce change.” We were happy to speak with them last week and answer questions for a featured interview on their blog. They even gave away a free Action Book to a reader who RTed the interview! See the article here.

Apple has approved and posted version 2.0 of the iPhone application for Action Method Online. The new version is, in fact, an entirely redesigned application, resulting from over seven months of design and development.

As Scott Belsky, CEO of Behance, explained, “Our goal was simple: To make Action Method the absolute BEST collaborative task management application available for the iPhone. We wanted it to seamlessly sync (and back-up) with the online version of the application, enable the user to organize their Action Steps by Project, Due Date, Color, Who Delegated It, Priority, or any other keyword.”

Unlike other task management applications for the iPhone, Action Method Mobile both (1) seamlessly syncs over the cellular network as well as a wireless internet connection, and (2) is collaborative, enabling users to delegate (and accept/reject) Action Steps (tasks) from each other.

Read More Information about Action Method Mobile 2.0 on the Team Blog

AIGA, the professional association for design, is the oldest and largest professional membership organization for design. AIGA’s mission is to advance designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force.

“This fall, AIGA’s member portfolios are moving to a new platform hosted by the Behance Network. This transition reflects AIGA’s commitment to providing professional tools for designers to develop their practice, in this case by promoting themselves and their work in an extensive network, with a clear designation as belonging to the professional association for design.”

Read the announcement here.