Archive for the ‘Engagement Research’ Category

Ecotopia

Monday, November 16th, 2009My good friend Andy Middleton is organising an event called Ecotopia - December 4th 2009So if you want to follow the No Straight Line rule of doing something. Get over to and get stuck in with Ecotopia.Become the change you ...

Communication power, who has it?

Thursday, November 5th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4642" align="aligncenter" width="379" caption="Paris riots"][/caption]Well we did say Communities Dominate Brands! In an interview with Henry Jenkins he of Participatory Culture and Convergence Culture and even Transmedia storytelling fame, Maxime Cervulle for Poli, a French magazine of media ...

Making sense of the world we live in through micro narratives and data

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Cognitive Edge

The quiet revolution of cooperation

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4624" align="aligncenter" width="258" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/20237352@N00/4002179056"][/caption]America is in the midst of a new revolution. But this revolution is quiet, incremental, nonviolent, and traveling beneath the mainstream media's radar. The new American revolution challenges the current notions of dog-eat-dog capitalism—through the building ...

Is Britain ready for the networked society?

Monday, November 2nd, 2009The economist wrote an article called The Great Giveaway in which it takes a critical look at the decentralising of government into the shires. Local decision making gets passed down from central government to local government.A great deal of this ...

The no straight lines of authentic value in the networked society [2]

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4547" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Industrial society is exhausted by its resistance to the networked society"][/caption]Carlota Perez in Technological Revolution and Financial Capital : the dynamics of bubbles and golden ages, mourns the fact that as a new economy takes hold, ...

Commonwealth in the networked society [3] Big pharma

Sunday, October 11th, 2009Big banks, big pharma, big problems, writes John Martin,MONEY has thrown society out of kilter. Banks that once appeared to have mountains of cash have collapsed. As a consequence of the global recession, governments now recognise that banking is too ...

The end of TV as we know it: hyperland

Friday, October 9th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4521" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="TV the culture hearth of the family home?"][/caption]If found this post over at Russell Davies's gaff online. Russell has such a lovely turn of phrase dontchya think? Although as someone also said to me. 'sometimes Alan ...

I suppose going back to the way things were is a bit out of the question?

Friday, October 2nd, 2009Euan Semple writes about his antipathy to the phrase Enterprise 2.0,Stowe Boyd wrote today about his discomfort with the phrase Enterprise 2.0 and his preference for "social business" as a way of describing the changes we are seeing currently. While ...

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 ...

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