• Internet Week in New York City, Startup City?

    We’ve just arrived in New York for Internet Week. Certainly, it’ll be a fruitful time for us: an MCDM booth at Startup City, a Happy Hour (already near capacity) in collaboration with Shauna Causey and Decide.com, and a tonload of friend-raising on behalf of our graduate program and just-announced Four Peaks Executive Program (June 12, Seattle).…

  • Four Peaks TV grand finale: Hacking Edu

    Watch now in HD on UWTV (and embedded below) our final Four Peaks show for the season.  As we move away from an industrialized, hierarchical model to a more nimble, collaborative one, how do we need to learn? What are we willing to pay for?  What are the essential skills of a 21st century workforce?  What emerging trends…

  • Best video editing app for the “new” iPad? No contest…

    Avid Studio is totally up to the task.  Simple enough to be intuitive, powerful to make some fine tune edits.  I think I fell out with iMovie on the Mac in 2008 (yucky interface), it does not redeem itself on the iPad in 2012 (I tried, it’s yucky there too; I couldn’t even figure out…

  • Here’s why we’re re-imagining higher education (a good excuse for a party too, so join us)!

    We’ve been “Hacking Edu” aggressively so far this month, with our successful Happy Hour last week, and tonight’s student-propelled Advisory Roundtable dinner.   It’s our attempt to boldly re-imagine higher education, moving away from an industrialized, hierarchical model to a more nimble, collaborative one.  How do we need to learn?  What are we willing to pay…