De-schooling Society
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Culture, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Society, Trends | 4 Comments »Having lunch with a friend Sophia Parker, ex-Demos. She is the author of Unlocking Innovation. Why citizens hold the key to public service reform And perhaps also of relevance The Journey to the Interface. How public service ...
Government 2.0 a rubbish name for a good initiative?
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Culture, Government & Politics, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »I really enjoyed this article in the Guardian Government 2.0 is a rubbish name for a good initiative Government 2.0 is a daft term. Its first airing, as the title of one of those management-consultant books on "how the ...
Engaged Politics in the networked society
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends | 1 Comment »On Friday, citizen reporters, "broadcasting jockeys", members of Internet communities and bloggers gathered at the OhmyNews' fourth International Citizens Reporters' Forum held in Nurtikum Business Tower in Seoul. Under the theme "Candlelight 2008," they discussed how the candlelight vigils are ...
The miracle of Hudson Street
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Engagement Marketing, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Strategy | No Comments »A piece of elegiac and beautiful writing from Malcolm Gladwell - though there is a point to its inclusion on CDB the title is called Designs for Working In the early nineteen-sixties, Jane Jacobs lived on Hudson ...
Ogilvy says: From Interruption to Engagement
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Advertising, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Participation, Society, Trends | 4 Comments »All Companies must learn to move from interruption to inviting participation. For all marketing initiatives, this no longer means communicating by interruption, but by engagement Is what was written in CDB, waaaaaaay back in 2005 and in fact it was something ...
Social Media Will Change Your Business - Engagement by any other name
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Media, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »Tomi and I did not use the word Social Media in CDB, but we did describe a phenomenon that we called the 4C's Commerce Culture Community Connectivity The once separate provinces of innovation, technology, economic activity, culture and communities are pulling together and converging into ...
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 ...
Rehab is for quitters
Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Citizen journalism, Ethics, News, Newspapers, Society | No Comments »Sang Amy Winehouse. Well she didn't exactly say that, but the thought crossed my mind, when I stopped by my favourite wine shop in Cambridge called Bacchanalia. Because the owner Paul Bowles was reading an article about his shop published in ...
Connectivity unleashes productivity
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Culture, Darwin, Economics, Mobile, Networks, Social Networks, Society, Statistics, Trends | No Comments »Kevin Kelly gives us a blow by blow account of a speech made at the Long Now Foundation about decentralising control, the Gameen Bank and how that has helped local and poor populations presented by Iqbar ...
Gen C - Don’t live for work
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Generation C, Philosophy, Society, Trends | 2 Comments »Everyone likes to call them Gen Y - Why? as Y stands for nothing much - whereas GenC stands for the Community Generation. Anyway nitpicking over... Teenagers and young adults - the so-called Generation Y - have watched with horror as ...
