Archive for the ‘Generation C’ Category

Social media and mobile bootcamp

Saturday, February 6th, 2010Get your boots on and come on over to the Hospital on 16th Feb for an intimate and proactive session on how mobile plays, or should play a key role in any marketing communications strategy vs. being a peripheral addendum.I ...

Networked government – could reboot Britain

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010CFA is the latest wave in the growing government 2.0 movement, joining the ranks of Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's Data.gov site and innovation contests like Apps for Democracy and Apps for America, where citizens can create shared applications using public-sector ...

I get a 70% royalty for publishing my book

Thursday, January 21st, 2010Quite extraordinary, I thought when reading about how Amazon is reaching out to authors in a manner that completely disintermediates publishing companies. And publishers as we know them are not happy campers at the moment.Arjan from Freedom Lab linked to ...

The future of work=TxtEagle

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010By the end of the month, a company called txteagle will be the largest employer in Kenya. The firm, started in its original form in 2008 by a young computer engineer named Nathan Eagle and, as of this coming June, ...

The London datastore

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Not what you would quite expect.Dominic Campbell from FutureGov writesThe London Datastore will see City Hall release, for the first time, huge realms of previously unavailable data for everyone to see and use free of charge. This is part of ...

The chief culture officer

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010In conversation with Henry Jenkins recently about my forthcoming No Straight Lines book, Henry mentioned Grant McCracken. So I went to check him out and was pleasantly surprised to find his book the Chief Culture Officer.And Henry writes about Grants ...

Alan Moore speaking @ sxsw 2010

Monday, January 11th, 2010This weekend I was invited to give a keynote @ sxsw 2010 based upon my submission in August last year. (watch the 2.5 minute film)The topic is Straight Line Thinking Stops Here, something that I covered at The Do Lectures ...

Networked television – we’ve only just begun

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Sang the Carpenters, all those years ago.The next decade will see the continuing transformation of television, with video becoming more personal and democratic as new networks subvert and transcend the broadcast model. Dr William Cooper of the convergent communications consultancy ...

Alice Taylor a Doer speaks @ Do

Sunday, December 20th, 2009Alice Taylor commissions cross-platform educational content for 14-19 year olds, aiming to get useful, life-helpful information to teens via their most favoured platforms and formats. She specializes in videogames and virtual worlds, and Channel 4 Education’s 2009 slate includes Routes, ...

Straight line thinking stops here @ INSEAD

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009Its planes, trains and automobiles as I travel to day to speak at the Web 2.0 symposium which takes place at INSEAD as from tomorrow. The topic:Inter-Organizational Learning and Competence Development: Web 2.0 Experiences and TrendsFrom e-Learning to Web 2.0 ...

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