Archive for April, 2008

the global talent war

Friday, April 11th, 2008As our economic environment evolves greater pressure will be applied to where talent goes.The Economist has an article exploring this issueRichard Florida is a chronicler of this movementAnd is something that at SMLXL we explore in ...

Nomadic Generation C in the space of information flows

Friday, April 11th, 2008In our book - we writeThe changing of customers habits and behaviours wrought by technology means the old ways just do not work anymore. The crisis of many businesses is the crisis of meaning. Leadership for brands and businesses will ...

Making data free is economic sense

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008We seem to have a theme going on about data and its various uses at the moment.I spotted this recentlyTwo years ago, we launched our Free Our Data campaign on an act of faith. ...

Creative Britain – A nation of shopkeepers?

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Vic Keegan wrote an impassioned piece recently about the creative industries in the UK.Vic writesWhen the 1850 public libraries bill was going through parliament, opposition came mainly from MPs representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. ...

When Petrabytes seem like kilobytes – what comes next?

Monday, April 7th, 2008 Affirmation is a great and positive word and I have been feeling some affirmation recently and here is another small slice The concept of Web 2.0 is a dynamic, user-driven mesh of technologiesAbsolutely, and Carlota Perez in her book Technological ...

Power Play on the Global Stage

Saturday, April 5th, 2008 The way that consumer power is shifting across the globe is going to significantly affect the way that brands maintain ‘relationships’ with their customers. The impact of new economic global powerhouses, coupled with the empowerment of ‘digitally fluent’ consumers means ...

DoubleClicks view of the future

Saturday, April 5th, 2008 An interesting and indeed an engaging set of videos which are well worth looking at how media is evolving, how TV and the web will converge, how we will go increasingly mobile, how search and discovery will transform advertising ...

How to make a deal in the 21st Century

Friday, April 4th, 2008I picked this up on DC's blogWe got in touch entirely through using Twitter and Twhirl... how cool is that? Okay, we also used Skype a bit to close the deal..."Which refers to Seesmic's purchase of Thwirl - if you ...

The Twittering Government

Friday, April 4th, 2008Picked this up from Jeff JarvisA speech by Tom WatsonThe 19th century co-operative movements had their roots in people pooling resources to make, buy or distribute physical goods. Modern online communities are the new co-operatives.Jarvis makes his own ...

Mind the Gap

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Reading Tomi's last post prompted me to think out loud on some broader issues that have been brewing for some time.That thought process relates to the idea of FRICTION - Friction is abrasion, agitation, attrition, ...

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