Digital Roam

Napkin teleseminar with Seth Godin, Anil Dash, and Rich Sloan -- now this is going to be fun!

Thanks to Elizabeth Marshall at Author Teleseminars, on July 9 at noon EST I'll be giving a live Back of the Napkin session online with Seth Godin, Anil Dash, and Rich Sloan.

We're going to talk about solving problems with pictures, drawing our way out of business conundrums, and saving the world through simple sketching. (But frankly, with this group, I'm sure we'll cover a whole bunch of other topics along the way as well.)

Please join us live on Wednesday, July 9 at noon eastern. You can sign up here.

Have your pen and napkin ready!

The Back of the Napkin @ Google

Thanks to the interest and generosity of the folks at Google, it was my turn last week to head down to the Googleplex and talk about solving problems with pictures.

BusinessWeek's summer reading list

BusinessWeek just published their summer reading list for MBA students. The ten books include titles by Malcolm Gladwell, Thomas Friedman, Michael Porter, and James Joyce (!). Number ten? The Back of the Napkin.

Wow.

CNN Money gets pictorial

I recently shared several on-air napkin business sketches with Poppy Harlow at CNNMoney.com. The first to air is my sketch of the ongoing Microsoft-Yahoo-Icahn story. I've come up with a quick picture that I think explains the story clearly and sets the scene for what's likely to come next.

Watch the CNN clip here.

Upcoming napkin sketches include airline mergers and why Starbucks is in trouble. Stay tuned for those and other whiteboard sketches on CNNMoney.com.