Month: January 2013
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How Do You Use Twitter Favourites?
I have a question. SAI recently featured the graph above in their 'Chart Of The Day' feature showing the way in which favouriting of Tweets has taken off since interactions were included in the '@' section and incorporated under the 'Discover' tab. Since this had made favouriting more of a public thing, they suggest that…
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Slow
A few things about slowness. A while back Matt Steel wrote a powerful post about how easy it is, in the rush of life, to lose perspective and forget that when we slow down, priorities often become clearer: "The story I told myself was that slowness and emptiness were the same thing. I couldn’t have…
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If You’re Not Doing Some Things That are Crazy, Then You’re Doing the Wrong Things.
So says Larry Page. There's been a few interviews published with him of late but this Wired one by Steven Levy is one of the best. Lots to take out but I really liked his answer to a question about ambition and big bets: "I worry that something has gone seriously wrong with the way we…
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The Strategy Is Delivery
I mentioned this in today's newsletter but I think the recent work of the Government Digital Service is excellent. They've got some smart people working there and are doing great things. This excellent post by Mike Bracken (Director of Digital for the Cabinet Office) talks about how they have shifted the focus to putting user…
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The Biggest Issue In Content Marketing
Suddenly everyone is talking about Content Marketing and perhaps the chart above explains why. When I gave my recent talk to the Content Marketing Association (whose members have been doing this sort of thing in one form or another for many years) I made the point right up front that whilst the vast majority of…
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Marginal and Breakthrough Innovation
I liked this talk from Tim Harford from the Wired conference a while back. He uses some great examples to talk about the requirement for both types of innovation – that which brings incremental gain and continuous improvement over time, and the kind that involves high risk, different thinking, frequent failure but big potential gain.…
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Fish Food in 2013
Around two and a half years ago (is it really that long?) I started compiling and sending out a weekly curation of digital goodness – the best links/reads/quotes/things that I've come across on the interwebs over the past week. In truth, it started out as something of an experiment but since that first email the list…