How do you re-build the social fabric of towns and cities??
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Participation, Social Networks, Society | No Comments »Asks Strategy and business Business leaders are increasingly aware that the health of their enterprise is intimately connected with the health of the communities where they operate. As employers, they sometimes find themselves drawn in to help ...
Libraries of the future
Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Distribution, Engagement Marketing, Social Networks, Society, Web/Tech | No Comments »Interesting ramble into the user centered library Here The discussion centers around how to make libraries more relevant, to attract and engage their users, to be user centric not process centric
Accountability and the modern state
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Philosophy, Quotes, Society | 2 Comments »On Monday this week I sat down with Euan Semple to discuss a project that I have in mind. It centered around the concept of Engagement as a bigger idea beyond marketing communications. How could we evolve to be more ...
Joseph Pine 2 talks about the experience economy and also the 7th Mass Media
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Convergence, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Participation, Social Networks, Virtual Worlds, Web/Tech | No Comments »Joseph Pine speech at Mobile Monday Amsterdam Pine argues says is the universe is a trinity of; time, space, and matter. Manuel Castells says that this linear process has been inverted. Time is condensed and stretched. Past, present and future ...
The Engaged Learning Community
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Web/Tech | No Comments »The Horizon Report examines emerging technologies that could/will play a major role in transforming education. Educational uses of the two topics on the far-term horizon, collective intelligence and social operating systems, are understandably rarer; however, there are ...
Regional Press Owners Need to Get with the Beat: Intelligence
Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Media, Newspapers, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Web/Tech | No Comments »Posts Roy Greenslade referencing a Paul Bradshaw post Local news is changing - but not fast enough As the digital revolution moves forward are regional newspapers moving fast enough to appeal to online audiences? That's ...
The advertising agency of the future: Or the day the music died. Welcome to the iMedia Summit
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Events, Generation C, Media, News, Philosophy, Strategy, Travel, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »A long long time I can still remember how the music used to make me smile and I if I had my chance that I could make those people dance and maybe they'd be happy for a ...
What Age are we in?
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Education, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Networks, Philosophy, Quotes | 2 Comments »I was in Amsterdam yesterday working with the staff from Freedom Lab in Amsterdam - probing, exploring, discussing some of the major themes that preoccupy me. And one of the questions that came up yesterday was - What Age ...
Who does the UK government work for?
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Economics, Government & Politics, Health, Retail, Society, Trends | 1 Comment »Now tell if I am wrong, but I thought that elected Governments are constituently bound to serve the needs to the people that elected them - they, the elected Government are servants of the people. A community in this sense ...
Influentials are toast
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Mobile, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | 10 Comments »Is the Tipping Point Toast? This story has in fact come to me via a number of sources. So thank you all you kind hearted souls. :-) I am sure many have read the above post. The premise according to ...
