Month: March 2010
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How To Make It As An Advertising Creative
Scamp is back. For those of you not familiar with his blog (where have you been?) Scamp's place used to be the home of some great posts on the craft of creativity and also the liveliest comments section in ad land. He went quiet on us back in June in order to write a book.…
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Podcast On Agility
Agile is rapidly becoming something of a fixation of mine. This week I got together with the estimable Johnnie Moore and Robert Paterson to record a podcast on agile planning and agility in business. How and why many companies need to change in order to operate effectively in the networked world. As Johnnie says, it's…
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The Quiet Revolution
"We have to stop putting sand where we need oil, sugar where we need petrol." JP Rangaswami Let's face it, the recession has been a wake up call for many businesses. If it hasn't, it should've been. The key challenge for many organisations of-course is to understand how much of the damage that has been…
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Being Remarkable
A (dareisayit) remarkable presentation from Polle De Maagt about Being Remarkable. It contains many of the themes about which I have written in the past – about how it's not about the technology, or the channel, about being generous, the power of great storytelling. And it contains some wonderful examples. But in the end it's…
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3D Printing A Whole Building
I find the whole idea of 3D printing rather intriguing. Not least because along with free and openly available design software and affordable technology it has the potential to redefine manufacturing. Projects like Arduino, the open-source electronics prototyping platform, and Makerbot, the first sub $1000 dollar 3D printer that can produce plastic parts from digital…
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Porous Enterprise
Interesting short film on the new world of work featuring soundbites from PB Works founder David Weekly, John Hagel, Brian Phillips and Dan Olsen. Some common themes here with my post below on agility – notably how corporations can’t afford to keep moving at a slow pace, and need to increase the pace of innovation…
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Re-Imagining Books
"We're going to see new forms of storytelling emerge from this canvas. This is an opportunity to redefine modes of conversation between reader and content. And that's one hell of an opportunity if making content is your thing." Craig Mod Next week I'm going to an event on the future of publishing where my good…
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It’s Not About Digital, Stupid!
The poster put together by Sidekick Studios for their participation in this week's Digital Inclusion conference. Amen to that.