Piers Young quotes Ross Mayfield…
It’s becoming cheaper to host your own event than attend one
…which has big implications for the professional Conference business and its overpriced, status-obsessed offerings. Ton has a good riff on this too.
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
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
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
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.
I liked Euan’s neat summary of how to do Enterprise 2.0 and Jon Husband’s elaboration of it. Jon points to Jim McGee‘s metaphor: If my hypothesis has any merit, it
Hugh sent me a freebie copy of his latest book Evil Plans. After a diet of rather heavy business books, this was a welcome fast read. In the film, Local
I liked this Clint Eastwood anecdote from Shawn Callahan. As an actor Clint found a director’s call to ‘Action’ off putting. He was immediately reminded that he was an actor,
In his book Dialogue and the art of thinking together William Isaacs tells of a charged meeting of Russians and Chechens. At the first toast of the evening the negotiatior/facilitator
