Everyone’s seems to be into co-creation and crowdsourcing these days. Here’s a lovely reality check for lazy brands who assume too much about what to expect. It’s the phenomenon of “yes I’d love for you to collaborate by washing my dishes and peeling my potatoes”
Hat tips Katie Chatfield and Kirsty
Improv can still be powerful when it’s mundane
Finding space for stronger feelings in collaboration
I’ve just had a delightful meeting with Emma Cahill co-founder of publishing house Snowbooks. They describe their approach thus: We publish far fewer titles than
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 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 spend too much time thinking. A friend revealed to me recently that he would describe me to acquaintances as a brain on a stick.
No sooner do I finish my last blog than I stumble on Denham Grey’s eloquent thoughts: Wonder if you can really capture tacit knowledge by
I’ve been thinking a lot about what goes unspoken in the world in general and in my little slice of it in particular. There I
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
I’ve always really enjoyed speaking in public. Don’t know why, just do. So I’m chuffed that a couple of interesting events have come up for
Alan Moore has a long and thought-provoking post on what seems like a looming battle between forces of openness and control when it comes to the future of networks. Central
I’m fascinated by visual illusions. They challenge our everyday notion that the world is as we see it. Richard Dawkins has a great chapter in Unweaving the Rainbow which explores
The next little video in my series – on embracing the absurd when working with people.
Here’s a great story from Terry Pearce’s Leading out Loud. Actor Charles Laughton was attending a large family Christmas party. The host asks each guest in turn to recite a
