Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

The Four Principles Of Social Computing In Business

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Generation C, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Trends | No Comments »

Euan Semple and I met up yesterday to talk stuff about a project we want to do together. On his blog was a great piece of insight he had - Ffffound via wikipedia Whoever ...

Metrics in the networked society

Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Social Networks, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »

Ajit Joakar of Open Gardens has posted this In a previous blog, I discussed how Long tail social network analysis could be a business model for Web 2.0 The key insights are a) The Web has a higher CPM ...

De-schooling Society

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Culture, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Society, Trends | 4 Comments »

Having lunch with a friend Sophia Parker, ex-Demos. She is the author of Unlocking Innovation. Why citizens hold the key to public service reform And perhaps also of relevance The Journey to the Interface. How public service ...

Government 2.0 a rubbish name for a good initiative?

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Culture, Government & Politics, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »

I really enjoyed this article in the Guardian Government 2.0 is a rubbish name for a good initiative Government 2.0 is a daft term. Its first airing, as the title of one of those management-consultant books on "how the ...

Technology and learning - a thought for the day

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Culture, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Philosophy, Trends, Web/Tech | 2 Comments »

In April 2006, Susan Greenfield sponsored a debate ( More ) in the house of Lords based around the impact of the latest technologies on the way young people might think and learn differently from previous generations. In her ...

Why the furniture of traditional advertising fails within a social media context

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Trends | 1 Comment »

Dave Cushman at Faster future blogspot has put together a slide deck explaining the above principal | View | Upload your own Nice one Dave and JMac adds his own contribution All good stuff and of course this ...

The miracle of Hudson Street

Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Marketing, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Strategy | No Comments »

A piece of elegiac and beautiful writing from Malcolm Gladwell - though there is a point to its inclusion on CDB the title is called Designs for Working In the early nineteen-sixties, Jane Jacobs lived on Hudson ...

Social Media Will Change Your Business - Engagement by any other name

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »

Tomi and I did not use the word Social Media in CDB, but we did describe a phenomenon that we called the 4C's Commerce Culture Community Connectivity The once separate provinces of innovation, technology, economic activity, culture and communities are pulling together and converging into ...

Polyclinics are not communities

Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Darwin, Ethics, Government & Politics, Health, Social Networks, Society | No Comments »

In the UK at the moment the Government (Civil Service) is moving to roll out a plan to remove our local GP surgeries - GP stands for General practitioner For what is described as Polyclinics. We blogged abut it ...

Connectivity unleashes productivity

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Mobile, Networks, Social Networks, Society, Statistics, Trends | No Comments »

Kevin Kelly gives us a blow by blow account of a speech made at the Long Now Foundation about decentralising control, the Gameen Bank and how that has helped local and poor populations presented by Iqbar ...