On new and simple ways to display information

I was reading the Green Guide in today’s Melbourne Age. In the Websights section I noticed a short paragraph about a service, still in beta, that combines photos, video, and music into a professional looking multimedia product.
The service is from Animoto and this is what they are about: “Each video is a fully customized orchestration of [...]

On the collaboration of culture

Check out this great Youtube video….where greek music meets Australian aboriginal dance!
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-MucVWo-Pw

On storytelling and memory

When I was officially studying economics at Sydney University in the early 1980s, I was also unofficially sitting in on psychology lectures and reading texts and articles on perception, brain science and social psychology. I have periodically kept up that interest ever since.
I want to share my discovery some years ago about a technique used [...]

On government 2.0

Stephen Collins blogged yesterday about government 2.0, lamenting the fact that the opportunity to leverage “the power of the Internet to connect with and enable their constituents” to have a say could be well and truly improved in Australia.
The issue is not new, there are already government initiatives underway with government 2.0 in the UK and in Canada. Germany has [...]

On narrative, sensemaking, and volunteering

I did promise on Saturday that my next blog post would be on narrative, sensemaking, and the volunteering project. However, Doris Lessing did come between posts with an earlier blog post this afternoon.
Looking at my notes from the debrief from the volunteering project on Friday, I took this point from Dave Snowden’s introductory remarks on complexity and sensemaking, and [...]

On the internet and books

Just a quick post on this news story I read today about Nobel prize winner for literature, Doris Lessing, and her tirade against the internet.
Doris Lessing is one of my favourite novelists, The grass is singing being a particular favourite of mine. And I have a lot of respect for her views on quality literature and [...]

On the wisdom of crowds and volunteering

My latest Knowledge@Wharton newsletter has this article about a new book called: We Are Smarter Than Me: How the Wisdom of Crowds Can Help Businesses Succeed by Barry Libert and Jon Spector. It’s a timely reminder that networked knowledge has a significant place in the competitive world of business. I recommend the article and the book to [...]

On three ways of working

I am reading Gerard Fairtlough’s book, The three ways of getting things done.
The book examines three forms of workplace environment:
1) Hierarchy - the traditional organisational form of power relations in which there is a distinct progression of roles and powers from top to bottom. Hierarchies are usually inflexible, discourage learning and communication, and inhibit change. [...]

On content convergence and integration

It’s December and time for a quick conference alert (who knows what Santa might bring!) - Content Convergence and Integration 2008 will be held in in Vancouver, Canada, on 12-14 March. The conference topics include:
Social media and customer communications
New technologies for a new day
Mobile information
Planning for a world of social media
Digital assets and copyright
DAM Case study in [...]