links for 2010-09-12

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

  • I've managed to stay out of World of Warcraft for a year now. This is a pretty useful guide to the multiple game mechanics that kept me hooked for so long…

  • "Collectively there was something in the order of 1000 work days at the conference which if it was a research grant would have been in the order of hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of staff buy out. Even if just a fraction of that had been harnessed in a more focused way we could have done something amazing together."

  • " Social curation does not mean the end of editorial curation it means the opportunity to combine them to make an even better product."

  • I like to think I write without slavishly chasing linkage. That's partly because I'm usually hopeless at guessing what will and won't be popular. So I found this little analysis interesting, though I hope it doesn't make us all into tricksy copywriters…

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Conversational leadership

David Gurteen tweeted this interesting article (pdf): Conversational Leadership: Thinking together for a change It makes a lot of sense to me pushing for a

Scaling or evolving?

This post really interests me: Innovation for Development: Scaling Up or Evolving? As they complete some pilot experiments in development work the authors recognise that

Jersey

I’ve just given a presentation on Beyond Branding in Jersey. It was fun to take ideas that have been percolating for months and give them

Badgers and the joy of complexity

Great article in today’s Independent. The government decided to take action to stop the spread of TB among cattle. They found that badgers were to

More on what is marketing…

Jennifer Rice continues our rolling dialogue about what marketing’s job is. I appreciate Jen for keeping a good thoughtful exploration going. David Foster at PhotonCourier

Chautauqua

I’ll be taking part in the Chautauqua online discussion of Beyond Branding, from 15th to 29th February. Fellow authors Denzil Meyers, Chris Macrae, Julie Anixter

Microsoft’s embarassing metadata

Found via Richard Gayle is Strike that Out Sam. This is a cheeky exploitation of the fact that Microsoft Word documents retain the fingerprints of

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Emotional debt

Releasing the hidden costs of pent up frustrations

Aliveness

Finding the aliveness below the surface of stuck

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! or ?

I thought some more about the entertaining David Weinberger post I referenced yesterday. I love the central message about “!” or “?. I also realise that I can be pretty

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Millie the 80-year-old videoblogger

Good post by Jackie Huba about an 80-year-old videoblogger. Market researchers pay handsomely for this kind of research, yet it’s unclear how many companies scan the web for free Millie

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Incremental innovation

Carl Franzen describes how scientists captured the first picture of atoms vibrating in a molecule. What caught my eye was that the technique used has been around for some years.

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Maybe

Rob Paterson has a great post about simplicity the complicated and the complex. This is what Emergence looks like. It is the result of a powerful but simple equation being