Month: February 2009

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    Augmented Mini Reality

    Engagement is more powerful than attention, so I'm rather liking this augmented reality ad for Mini that I saw over at Kris's place. Sure, it's still not perfect, but this is a smart application of it, and I like the interplay between media. And it's fun. More please.

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    Think Tank – January 2009 – The Vote

    Some exceptional writing again in this month’s short-list for Post of the Month, all of them well worth a read. Thanks to Simon, Eaon, Marisa, James and Dave for nominating. So, now time to vote for your favourite which you can do below. And please do spread the word to encourage lots of votes. Our…

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    Talented Connections

    Image courtesyAnother thought provoking image from Indexed, headlined: "Another Reason the Internet Has Saved Many a Butt". I wonder how true this actually is. It's certainly true to say that a huge part of the richness of being online are the (sometimes unexpected) connections you make, and that it's one of the real-world benefits of…

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    Think Tank Nominations – January 2009

    Nominations for the first Post of the Month of 2009 are now open. So have a think about the best post you've read over the last month and please nominate it by leaving a comment below with a link. As before, this is about recognising good thinking and writing so please help spread the word…

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    A Presentation About Community, By The Community – The Finished Presentation

    A Presentation About Community, By The Communityhttp://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=imm-2009v1-1233912890623861-3&stripped_title=a-presentation-about-community-by-the-community View more presentations from neilperkin. (tags: crowdsourcing community) OK. So here is the finished presentation from my presentation crowdsourcing experiment (back story here) that I gave at yesterday's conference. In the end I had about 30 slides contributed. I've tried wherever possible to leave them in as original…

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    Visualizing The Impalpable

    Regular readers will know I have a bit of a thing for data visualizations at the moment. One of the things I like about them is that they bring life to things that were previously hard or impossible to envisage. Here's another couple of great ones from the ever-fascinating Flowing Data. First up, Nitmesh pointed…

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    A Presentation About Community, By The Community (update)

    I have to say that the reaction to what was (in all honesty) a bit of an experiment, has been tremendous. So far I've received not far short of thirty slides, with some great contributions, so I'm really pleased with how it's all gone. I'm now busy arranging, tweaking and putting final touches on it…

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