Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

Mobile futures

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 I was asked whether I would like to make a few predictions around mobile, networks, commerce and culture by Rudy de Waele. I joined a very interesting collective to share my views and I was fascinated by what everyone of ...

Humanity a meme/gene machine

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Copying, with variation and selection. Susan Blackmore gives a highly entertaining presentation. Meme machines and gene machines and Techno-memes is the her passion. She says that we are merging with technology... how far will we converge?

SMLXL: business and communications innovation

Friday, October 2nd, 2009 I am often asked what we do @ SMLXL here's a film that provides a brief overview of the SMLXL philosophy, and some examples of the type of work and projects we have undertaken over the last few years. From Interruption ...

Figaro Social communications conference

Thursday, October 1st, 2009 Social social everywhere, but why? The Figaro Social Media conference looks like its going to be a good event, as it blends some interesting topics and issues together. Both commercial and non-commercial. The challenges of understanding how to conduct successful communications ...

The best kind of rules are those we apply to ourselves

Monday, September 14th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4400" align="aligncenter" width="252" caption="Johnny Cash walking the line: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8697877@N06/531859329"][/caption] Nice one Jamais, who goes onto to say in his post The best kind of rules are those we apply to ourselves, those we believe in. Ethics--sometimes thought of as "how you ...

Becoming the change you want to see in the world

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 Was what I suggested was "my little Do" after I presented at the Do lectures @ Fforest in Cilgarren on Saturday. "My big Do" was asking people to take the language I had presented and use that to challenge what ...

Social media but an element of Engagement

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Tim Harrap, very kindly pointed me to lessons learn't in social media by Dirk Shaw, (Great name) Its good sound advice, common sense and obviously hard won. My view however is that Engagement as a principal co-joins social media with other ...

Education in augmented reality

Friday, July 31st, 2009 I found this film whilst reading the post 11 industries that will be redefined with augmented reality And here's an article on education and AR Slightly different from AR but connected to the education theme is a post Henry Jenkins made in ...

No Straight lines: an advanced living course for the networked society

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 My good friend Euan Semple was interviewed at guruonline In this exclusive interview, social media expert Euan Semple breaks social media down into easy to understand terms and explains not only why every business should at least have a look at ...

The holy grail of public service broadcasting

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 well some people might think so? Thompson described "the plan" as "potentially the holy grail of future public service broadcasting provision in the UK" The plan Stan is this The BBC said its proposals to share its online and digital technology would provide ...