I thought this event looked quite interesting when it cost £150 to get in. Now that the good people at NESTA have made it free it’s even more so. It’s a day long workshop on March 20th. Deciphering trust: How cigarette breaks, gossip and other informal networks influence your capacity to innovate
I’ve long felt that most useful innovation happens well outside the hygienic confines of official processes.
Welcome to the Ourhouse Weblog. Blogging is something I’ve become increasingly interested in. Earlier this month I set up the Beyond Branding Blog which is
The competitive streak in me means I need to keep with Tony Goodson’s blog. The struggles of learning to speak “Movable Type” and thoughts on the nature of blogging.
Earlier today I was writing about passion brands and the power of community. I got a small but interesting example of this principle in action when I visited Ton Zijltra’s blog to find that he’s opened a separate blog on his planned abandonment of Microsoft.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
The AntiBrand: blackSpot sneakers, a project by Adbusters attacks Nike directly. In doing so they take on what has become one of the great icons
My friend Olaf Brugman has invited me to take part in a workshop in Brussels on October 29th. It looks set to be an interesting
The Church of the Customer blog quotes an NY Times interview with David Bowie who says: I’m fully confident that copyright for instance, will no
I’ve just started to suffer from Spam comments the latest effort by these wretches to publicise their sites. They basically post fatuous comments to weblogs
At the NGO conference (blogged yeserday and the day before) I met Martin Roell a German blogger and e-business guru. He’s blogged the event in
I’ve finally started paying attention to RSS and all this stuff about “Blog Aggregators”. The final shove was wanting to get Martin Roell’s English feed.
Hugh prompts some thoughts on porosity (referencing this essay by Clay Shirky). I expand a little on the paradox of structure and freedom.
AdPulp spots this from Online Media Daily: NFL team the Cincinatti Bengals are getting into user-created videos. The [team] will send out e-mail messages today to 40 000 fans asking
How to deal with teenagers after a night on the tiles. An inspirational story from Ben Zander that captures the spirit of his and Roz Zander’s book, The Art of Possibility.
At IMC John Hagel has given a good 15 minute provocation on the topic of the attention economy. Renee Hopkins Callahan has done a good summary at Fast Company as
