What your handwriting says about you

What your handwriting says about you

Google announced a new app earlier today, called Google Handwriting Input. Only available for Android so far, it allows users to write on a touchscreen — smartphone or tablet, with or without a stylus — then interprets the handwriting into standard digital text. It...

‘Listening’ tables at meetings of the future

Looking for an exit strategy for the next boring roundtable meeting you are forced to attend? A new “listening table” developed by the New York Times R&D Lab doesn’t exactly give you a hall pass, but it does take note, literally, of all the good stuff and forces...
Outsourcing is ‘in’

Outsourcing is ‘in’

When describing what we do at Shift Key to potential clients, the discussion inevitably turns to who is currently handling a company’s content marketing — and what mix of that company’s overall marketing budget and staffing issues should be absorbed in-house as...

Supermodel Astronaut

Media stereotypes about women are often discussed, and the needle on that barometer seems to skid into the red about every Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. It reaches a pinnacle about the end of awards season in Hollywood — brutal commentary is at an all-time high, and...