Communication
RSA Animate Drive
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Francois told me about this video and before I’d had a chance to check it out it popped up again via a Seth Godin post. An excellent animated presentation of a set of research and resulting ideas by Dan Pink that powerfully shows how visual can expand the impact of verbal. Share this Post[?]
Hollow
Saturday, May 1st, 2010Maybe it is just me but increasingly through this election campaign there has been a growing sense of hollowness. Not so much in the candidates (!) but more in how particularly the press has treated the various opportunities for fun, judgement execution etc. and how news has spread. Now obviously every election throws up all [...]
And Here At the End, The Goal
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Simple but strong post from Chris Brogan on how we so often switch method for goal, and the methods we use (particularly if they involve computers, the web, technology, etc.) end up dominating what we do, drawing us away from the goals that caused us to set out on our journeys. I know for me [...]
The Frame
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010One of my recent discoveries, and one of the most rewarding sources on Twitter is @sacbee_theframe, which is a photo blog hosted by The Sacramento Bee, a news site. Each post links to an incredibly rich set of photos taken around the world on a given theme, and each photo is marked by an artist’s [...]
Reaching the ones that matter
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010A very stimulating post from Seth Godin on the ‘drive by’ culture now dominating so much of the web. It certainly strikes a chord with what I’ve been thinking over the past few months, as I’ve been reassessing my use of web services, from the previous “I’ve got to keep running to stay up with [...]
Who will speak out?
Saturday, March 27th, 2010I finally finished watching a Clay Shirky video on YouTube, of a presentation he gave on ‘Internet Issues Facing Newspapers’ at Harvard’s Kennedy School on Sept 22nd 2009. Some of the content is similar to arguments advanced in his Here Comes Everybody book (well worth reading by the way), some more specific to the newspaper [...]
Facebooking
Thursday, January 21st, 2010I’m not that much of a Facebooker – I actually read updates etc. through Tweetdeck along with Twitter streams, and only visit to see pictures and confirm requests. So this guide from WebWorkerDaily is a handy update to using the redesigned and evolving Facebook. There is another useful guide (from Inside Facebook) to protecting your [...]
Not who but when
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Sometimes the biggest surprises and internal changes come from such tiny moments you look back and wonder ‘where did that come from?’ Although this post involves the bible it is relevant to any situation where you might want to communicate something important to you on to someone else. Last Sunday our gathering had been looking [...]
Geek marketing 101
Sunday, August 30th, 2009A stimulating post from John Dodds that in fact was first published 3 years ago and has become his most viewed post. A succinct take on geeks and marketing that I think can actually be expanded to cover other things – hopefully more on this later. Share this Post[?]
Getting to excellent
Thursday, June 11th, 2009I regularly read Seth’s blog as I find most posts interesting, but this one really started me thinking about how I go about projects that involve collaboration with 3rd parties. The basic premise he puts forward is there are three types of approaches: 1) collaborators whose goal is to please you and give you whatever [...]
Public Perception
Friday, May 15th, 2009A fascinating phrase emerged from the Parliamentary Treasury Select committee investigating the city’s bonus culture, courtesy of Robert Peston’s latest post "naivete as to the public perception of these matters” Now laying aside all that has happened over recent months what is intriguing is the power of ‘public perception’. Only a couple of years back [...]
Naming (part 3)
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Yet more on the subject of naming – part 1 and part 2 are interlinked closely with this one. One fascinating thing is just what our need for a name for our groupings actually shows about us. It is far far easier to stay connected to a branded group than to follow a person. The [...]
Facebook Generation
Sunday, April 26th, 2009Something I’d meant to post on a while ago but got lost in my drafts folder. An interesting post by Gary Hamen on the Facebook generation set against the Fortune 500 and noted by Steve Clayton. Steve summarised the list into the following shortened form: All ideas compete on an equal footing. Contribution counts for [...]
Prezi
Sunday, April 19th, 2009A new presentation service if you are bored with PowerPoint, and not just to string slides together – it opens the door to a whole new way of exploring a presentation. I’ve just started out with it and am trying to convert a fairly complex PowerPoint I’ve made for a forthcoming presentation into something that [...]
At least they are trying….
Monday, April 13th, 2009The first attempt to run a Christian ‘event’ online has been undertaken by Trinity Wall Street Church in putting on the story of the Passion on Twitter. I unfortunately missed it and so cannot comment on its effectiveness, but it has prompted me to wonder how a medium like Twitter could be used to creatively [...]
The legacy of authority
Monday, March 2nd, 2009I haven’t read Outliers (by Malcolm Gladwell) yet but it has been ordered. However David Hayward has, and has posted some interesting comments with reference to the issue raised in the book of how the cultural legacy of authority can impede church and Christians. He rounds off with four good points. I’ll review the book [...]
Alone again?
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Today reminds me of a similar day (indeed six months or so of them) back in 1989. I’d been made redundant from the design and build company I was at, and started working from the very cramped loft of my old Stoke Newington terrace house. It was an exciting time, full of new opportunities (I [...]
Getting connected….
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009I’ve just gone through the round of trying to get the various services I actively use to update each other (e.g. Tweets appearing as Facebook updates and vice versa, everything going through Friendfeed, using Ping.FM to connect things etc. etc.) The only dread I have now is what others have said of the echo effect [...]
Scott McCloud at TED
Monday, January 26th, 2009Below is an absolutely fascinating TED 2005 talk from Scott McCloud (courtesy of Presentation Zen) which I found really provoked my thinking about communication, presentation and story telling. It is worth watching just for the superb slide presentation that accompanies Scott’s very slick but informative, entertaining and stimulating message. Another key idea is the concept [...]
Writing an email that stands a chance of being read
Saturday, December 13th, 2008I approached this post with a degree of scepticism but quickly realised the writer had an excellent take on the whole issue of writing emails that might actually be read. If this sounds strange to you then you probably don’t receive a very high volume of mail. If you do get swamped this way you’ll [...]