Archive for the ‘Social Networks’ Category

Lessons for brands and media of the 21st Century

Friday, November 6th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4654" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="FantaLife Beach"][/caption]Getting out of the ad spot into the fabric of peoples lives, requires some rethinking on communication, and the panacea is not "social media". Henry Jenkins in his 8 part investigation into what he and ...

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 ...

Cultural production in the age of sharing

Thursday, November 5th, 2009Cory Doctorow, from Boing Boing discusses his latest publishing venture.This is as non-linear as it gets in terms of thinking how business works in this networked wired up world. And fascinatingly enough its all about people, people connecting, information flowing, ...

Google in 5 years time: an apps company

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009And Microsoft will reinvent itself through gaming.Even though Eric Schmidt might have a different point of viewThe reason for this is that the networked society is people powered, and its complex - in fact there is a term called complexity ...

The no straight lines of city innovation

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Shareable cities - what is a shareable cityCities are shared spaces. That’s why we gather, in part, to share basic infrastructure, to socialize, to satisfy our human instinct to congregate, to make culture together. The call for a Shareable City simultaneously ...

Music + emotion + context + discovery = networked economics [2]

Saturday, October 31st, 2009SoundCloud is fast becoming the preferred streaming host for big name musicians writes Chris Salmon. Moby is using it to air his new album. Sound cloud allows people to listen and comment to the track but also specific parts of ...

Music + emotion + context + discovery = networked economics

Friday, October 30th, 2009The interest in both the prospect of Beatles downloads and the big sales of their re-released CDs highlights an increasingly important back-catalogue business within the embattled music industry. Struggling to earn money on new artists, record labels are mining their ...

African film and networked economics

Friday, October 30th, 2009The African Film Library is an initiative showcasing the best of the African film industry – making the movies easily accessible for movie aficionados around the world.The African film industry is one of the oldest – with its roots in ...

mobile marketing and communications training day

Friday, October 16th, 2009Don't forget to book your place @ Mobile: My Remote Control for Life 28th October 2009What are the deliverables of our mobile marketing day?1.Achieve a comprehensive understanding of how to drive business success – by better understanding; the logic ...

The no straight lines of authentic value in the networked society

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009I sit on the board of inspiration at the Dutch Think Tank Freedom Lab - the boys have been running a series of interviews within their network. And then turning these into short animated films. I have not looked at ...

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