Archive for the ‘Engagement Research’ Category

Citizen calling

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Ethics, Generation C, Health, Identity, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Science, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »

If the world is exploding with peer-to-peer communication, communities of interest, communities of commerce, and as the younger generations grow up familiar with technology that is always two way - Any business or institution that only works in broadcast mode ...

Emerce day - Rocks in Rotterdam

Friday, September 15th, 2006 Posted in Advertising, Alan Moore Speaking, Broadcast, CDB, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Ethics, Events, Generation C, Government & Politics, Identity, Marketing, Media, Music, Networks, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Virtual Worlds, Web/Tech, Weblogs | 2 Comments »

I have spent the last few days in Holland in the wonderful city of Rotterdam I was giving a keynote at Emerce day It was a lot of fun and was sold out. I also met some great people: Albert Boswijk ...

Today brands are defined by communities

Monday, September 4th, 2006 Posted in Darwin, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Newspapers, Participation, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Weblogs | No Comments »

Nice mention of our book by Guardian journalist Vic Keegan It just doesn't pay to be a loyal customer Vic talks about the experience of being badly treated by a mobile operator. He says... It is worth mentioning all this - ...

Contextual content redefines the advertising industry

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 Posted in Advertising, Broadcast, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Research, Generation C, Link Economy, Marketing, Media, Mobile, News, Search Econmics, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »

Google and ebay from alliance to tailor ads to every customer Was the headline in the Guardian today. Don't tell me broadcasting is not in trouble! Its business model - defunct and obsolete And I wonder if YouTube will not one-day ...

The dream of the personal computer aka the world is mobile

Saturday, July 29th, 2006 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Broadcast, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Marketing, Mobile, Music, Newspapers, Participation, Society, Strategy, Trends | 6 Comments »

From the Economist July 29th. On the PC's 25th birthday, The Economist leader article says. The IBM PC helped to democratise computing. Now to finish the job. Merchants in Zambia use mobile phones for banking; farmers in Senegal use them to ...

Fake Politics vs. Authentic Politics

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 Posted in Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Research, Ethics, Government & Politics, Participation, Politics, Society, Trends | No Comments »

Interesting article about how politicians will/should engage with our disconnected youth. written by Amina Taylor I nearly spat out my morning coffee when I heard the words "urban", "gangster" and "hoodie" emerge from the lips of Conservative Party ...

Leveraging the Knowledge of our peers: community and scientific research

Friday, July 14th, 2006 Posted in Culture, Data, Engagement Research, Generation C, Health, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »

Howard Rheingold would describe the following article as Technologies of cooperation The article is authored by Thomas J. Sharpton, Arpan A. Jhaveri Thomas J. Sharpton is a co-founder of SIPHS LLC, and is a Ph.D. candidate in microbiology ...

Pictures in our heads

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 Posted in Books, Broadcast, Culture, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Ethics, Government & Politics, Media, Society, Sociology, Television | No Comments »

For America, the last decade of the twentieth century not only saw a proliferation of the use of new communication technologies but also witnessed the rise of multiculturalism as ethnic communities and new immigrants resisted the earlier normative goal of ...

Mysteries of large distributed systems

Thursday, June 15th, 2006 Posted in Books, Convergence, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Link Economy, Media, Messaging, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends | 2 Comments »

One of the great mysteries of large distributed systems - from communities and organisations to brains and ecosystems - is how globally coherent activity can emerge in the absence of centralised authority or control This is the ...

Its not the end of economics as we know it…but

Monday, June 5th, 2006 Posted in Books, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech | 1 Comment »

I am in the middle of reading Yochai Benkler's book   The Wealth of Networks. Tons of useful stuff, however, this I found to be interesting, in trying to get companies/ organisations to understand and therefore rethink how they do what ...