VCU Brandcenter Creative Technologists Cecilia Bogardus, Drew Dayberry, Don Sticksel and I have been working on a white paper since the beginning of the semester. For those that don't know a white paper is an authoritative report or guide that often addresses issues and how to solve them. Its used to educate readers and help people make decisions and they are often used in politics and business, and technical subjects. In commercial use, the term "white paper" has also come to refer to documents used by businesses as a marketing or sales tool.
Our white paper topic was on Connected Objects. Connected Objects dealing with the internet of things, the webs of things, sensor-ed objects and all the technology that help to enable all of these things. The culmination of this project was a 20-min presentation of our white paper to our class of attentive and eager Creative Technologists. Luckily for us, also in the audience was BBH's Director of Creative Technology, Richard Schatzberger. A lot of the work he has done included some of tech and subjects we covered in our presentation.
We wanted to do our white paper a little differently so instead of an actual piece of paper with the printed words of our report we made a website. We called it
InterWebConnectedness. We laced it with links wikipedia style and a twitter feed of recent tweets that mentioned certain connected object related terms so it too became a connected object.
You will learn something. Enjoy my imaginary followers.
