Archive for the ‘Engagement Research’ Category

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 walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009So says Theo Jansen And to watch his extraordinary structures move you understand this is a man that does not take a linear approach to life.Yesterday, was quite an amazing day for me. Lunch with Livio and Lee @ Headshift ...

Commonwealth in the networked economy [2]

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4475" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Overcapacity results in a bailout of General Motors to the tune of $50billion"][/caption]Last December the boss of Fiat, Sergio Marchionne, predicted that the economic crisis would finally force the world’s car industry to confront profit-destroying overcapacity ...

building, fostering and interacting; the new rules of journalism

Friday, September 25th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4463" align="aligncenter" width="491" caption="learning to manage communities can be a tricky business"][/caption]I picked this up from a Jay Rosen tweetManaging Online Communities: What Computer Games Can Teach JournalistsWhat does MMORG's have to do with journalism? The answer according to ...

Refined social data changes everything you ever thought about marketing

Thursday, September 24th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4447" align="aligncenter" width="482" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21782644@N04/3191535692"][/caption]This is the basis for my presentation @ Monitoring Social InformationIn the near future wars will be fought over scarce resources; water, oil, and food. The other war that will be fought will be over data. ...

Bacterial finance

Thursday, September 24th, 2009Now such a title could bring to the surface all kinds of ideas, some of them not very pleasant, however, Harvey Rubin argues that financial institutions have a great deal to learn from nature,Whether you call the current financial situation ...

A reality check for augmented reality

Thursday, September 24th, 2009After posting about mobile augmented reality here and here I came across an article in New ScientistI disagree, with the wobbly start headline, but I liked the reality check. Something that was reinforced recently by AR specialist Robert Rice, he ...

innovation: charts vs. process

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009I had an email exchange with someone recently about innovation, I wrote,For me the point is about process - not in charts. The issue for those that worship at the alter of the tyranny of numbers, is that they cannot ...

The open gardens of augmented reality

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Recently we posted about Layar – an augmented reality mobile screen, and I know that this is a topic that is going to transform marketing and communications and how in fact we interface with the world.INTERFACE WITHOUT INTERFERENCEIs a saying ...

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