Month: April 2015
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Google Firestarters Australia – Adapting Strategy for an Adaptive Age
Last week I travelled to Australia for our first ever Google Firestarters events in Melbourne and Sydney. We'd taken 'Adapting Strategy for an Adaptive World' as our theme for both sessions – a topic that was sufficiently narrow to hang together well but also broad enough to allow for different perspectives on what the concept of…
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The Creative Company
I thought this Scientific American piece on the messy minds of creative people (based on research by Psychologists Guillaume Furst, Paolo Ghisletta and Todd Lubart) was the best thing I’d read on how creativity works in ages. What was fascinating about it was that it acknowledged the many different (and sometimes contradictory) components, characteristics and…
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Performance Firestarters 7: The Mobile Future – Performance or Branding?
For the seventh in our series of Firestarters events for the performance marketing community, we focused on a specific but fascinating aspect of mobile marketing – the question of whether its future will be more defined by performance or brand advertising. Ian Maude from Enders Analysis gave a great scene setter supported by some good…
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The Full-Stack Employee
Chris Messina (who invented the Twitter Hashtag) wrote a post last week describing what he called the ‘Full Stack Employee’. This is, says Chris, the type of employee that has a powerful combination of skills, are adept at navigating the rapidly evolving and shifting technological landscape, and ‘make intuitive decisions amidst information-abundance, where sparse facts mingle loosely…
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On To-Do Lists
I rather liked this approach to doing a To-Do list from Peter Bregman, taken from this write up (found via Fraggl) of his 18 Minute plan to managing your day and finding focus. What I particularly like about it is the more comprehensive way in which it is inclusive of elements that sit outside of work tasks.…
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Post Of The Month – March 2015 – The Winner
Delighted to announce that the winner of Post Of The Month is Heidi Hackemer and Armando Turco's take on why Great Planners are Schizo. There was a strong showing for Pats McDonald's Unconscious Consumption post, and also Brian Millar's Why We Should Design Things to be Difficult to Use but it was Heidi and Armando's talk…
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Google Firestarters Comes to Australia
I'm really excited to announce that, on the heels of our events in New York and our recent one in Austin at SXSW, Google Firestarters is coming to Australia. We'll be running two events in one week – one in Melbourne on the 21st April, and one in Sydney on the 22nd April – both on the theme…
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Post of the Month – March 2015 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations everyone. Our vote this month is between: Great Planners are Schizo by Heidi Hackemer and Armando Turco Unconscious Consumption, The Rise of Low Involvement Digital by Patricia McDonald The Web’s Grain by Frank Chimero Why We Should Design Things to be Difficult to Use from Brian Millar 25 Things You Missed at SXSW by Hugh…
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Post Of The Month – March 2015 – Nominations
Post of the Month nominations are now open. Somewhat spoilt for choice for my initial shortlist this month, but I have a starting list below. If you've read something in March that you thought was great, and would like to put it forward for the vote, please nominate it in the comments below or direct…
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The Future of Fraggl
You'll know by now that I'm working with the smart folk at AdaptiveLab on our Twitter curation app Fraggl. The core concept and methodology behind Fraggl – curating the best content shared on Twitter through a combination of human, social and algorithmic curation and delivering it straight to your inbox every morning – has not…