Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

Humanity a meme/gene machine

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Copying, 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, 2009I 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, 2009Social 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 postThe 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, 2009Was 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, 2009Tim 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, 2009I found this film whilst reading the post 11 industries that will be redefined with augmented realityAnd here's an article on education and ARSlightly 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, 2009My good friend Euan Semple was interviewed at guruonlineIn 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, 2008well 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 thisThe BBC said its proposals to share its online and digital technology would provide ...

The glittering allure of the mobile society

Thursday, December 4th, 2008[caption id="attachment_2644" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Image: Scott Beale @ laughingsquid.com"][/caption]In February of this year I found myself on a cold and rainy day in Evian, at the behest of Microsoft at an international summit for CIO’s to give the final keynote ...

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