Obama = Engagement
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Culture, Darwin, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Identity, Networks, Participation, Society, Strategy, Trends, Uncategorized | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_3047" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Obama inspires. Hugh McLeod - gapingvoid.com"][/caption] What Obama embodies is something different — a networked model of the relations amongst all of us who are involved in the process of transforming American society. The differences between Obama ...
Daisy makes it a Christmas to remember
Sunday, December 21st, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Culture, Health, Humour, Media, Society | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_2710" align="alignnone" width="238" caption="Daisy has the right gun for you"][/caption] I came across this on my travels, and I marvel at what this ad tells us. The mixture of the nuclear family, innocence, and the deadly weaponry that they hold ...
The Craftsman and modern society
Saturday, December 20th, 2008 Posted in Books, Culture, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Ethics, Government & Politics, Health, Identity, Participation, Philosophy, Society, Strategy | No Comments »This summer I read an enlightening book called The Craftsman, by Richard Sennett. And one I highly recommend. The Craftsman, is an exploration into the idea of craftsmanship, from the basics of technique and personal expression to how craftsmanship might be ...
The glittering allure of the mobile society
Thursday, December 4th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Broadcast, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Data, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Networks, Newspapers, Participation, Politics, Social Marketing Intelligence, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Trends, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »[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 ...
Learning can no longer be seen as something that is done to children by teachers
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in CDB, Culture, Education, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »And I could not agree more. A different approach for teaching our children is a report published by Charles Ledbeater and covered in the Guardian The word relationship drops in as does that qualifications aren't the only goal of an education, ...
Polyclinics are not communities
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Darwin, Ethics, Government & Politics, Health, Social Networks, Society | No Comments »In the UK at the moment the Government (Civil Service) is moving to roll out a plan to remove our local GP surgeries - GP stands for General practitioner For what is described as Polyclinics. We blogged abut it ...
Who does the UK government work for?
Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Economics, Government & Politics, Health, Retail, Society, Trends | 1 Comment »Now tell if I am wrong, but I thought that elected Governments are constituently bound to serve the needs to the people that elected them - they, the elected Government are servants of the people. A community in this sense ...
Living in the wealth of networks and technologies of co-operation
Friday, July 27th, 2007 Posted in Distribution, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Health, Media, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Trends, Web/Tech | 4 Comments »In our book, one of our major insights way back in the distant days of 2005 was the notion that we must move from interruptive communications to engagement. And that takes many courses, but social networking plays a key and central ...
I’m just so depressed :-( Why having communual fun is vital to healthy happy individuals
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 Posted in Books, Culture, Health | 4 Comments »Firstly, apologies for being a bit lax on the posting recently. Work and holidays have gotten in the way, and there are a stack of posts I want to make. Part of our fascination at CDB is about society, the human being, ...
The Network is Female
Sunday, October 29th, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Identity, Media, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_3030" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Venus by Botticelli"][/caption] Leon Benjamin, left a note on a post I made European Commission to create open source collaboration portal Curious I went and had a look at his blog. He has made a great ...
