Lloyd Davis: 5 Open Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Great video of a talk from Lloyd: Original post
What You’re Giving Now? You Can Never Give Less
A while back, a colleague was on a young managers panel at a conference. She was asked, in the Q&A, what one message she would impart to future managers: The response, in a split second, was “What you’re giving now? You can never give less.” She was right. Your days spent treading water now areRead… Read more »
Beginning At The Beginning
The doc was sewing me up when she said, “I’d like to do social media, but there is just too much with Facebook and Twitter and all those other things. I don’t know where to start.” My first thought was she should pay attention, I didn’t want to look like a football, but she’s aRead… Read more »
Vanilla Ice had it right: STOP, Collaborate, and Listen
One of the things that I’ve realized over the last few years is that despite the fact that I’ve gained more experience, I’ve done more formal educations, taken trainings, and built a lot of personal capabilities, I seem to have trended towards more collaborative decision making. I now spend more time talking to people aboutRead… Read more »
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Blocks, barriers and doorstops! Innovation in the NHS ✚ Review: Writing Kit for iPad POINT BREAK: 16 points of the cluetrain manifesto comms people need to know Investment in Place and People: Why I am looking for help funding a fantastic new Shoreditch Works space ImplementingRead… Read more »
Weekly Round-up: April 12, 2013
Gadi Ben-Yehuda This week, I’ve notice a lot of articles about the future. And in that future: Chris Dorobek will be hosting a discussion on the future of citizen engagement. Government agencies can mine Twitter for crowd management, social weather, and emergency response. We will eat “the MyPlate Way” (actually, we can do that now).Read… Read more »
PRINT TRUTH: ‘Newspapers in print are clearly going away. I think you’re an idiot if you think that’s not happening.’
Fail to understand the changing landscape and very soon you won’t have a job. It’s something I’ve been banging on about for some time now and It’s true whether you are a journalist, comms person or a fifth generation pit prop maker in 1983. A bright person a few weeks ago told me that thereRead… Read more »
Should Voter Registration Be Automatic?
Oregon’s Secretary of State Kate Brown is seeking to make voter registration of individuals automatic. Brown’s plan, would allow Oregon to automatically register new voters at the time they apply for a driver’s license. Those new voters would initially be registered as unaffiliated with any political party. At a later date, they’d receive a postcardRead… Read more »
Phasers at Sea – what’s the next PHASE?
By ChrisScott I will admit to being a bit surprised a few days ago when the Navy announced that they plan to deploy lasers onboard the U.S.S. Ponce in 2014. Of course I know that Directed Energy has been an area of interest for decades, and that many DoD labs and defense contractors invest aRead… Read more »
Presentations from Social Media conference and #socadl
Earlier this week I gave presentations at Canberra and Adelaide social media conferences from Akolade and at #Socadl – the regular meetup for South Australian social media enthusiasts. I’ve included my two presentations below, and they’re also available in my Slideshare page. Privacy and social media for Australian governments from Craig Thomler Government 2.0 –Read… Read more »