Monthly Archives: June 2008
SmartCompany.com.au is one of the most interesting online media ventures in Australia. Established in February 2007 by Amanda Gome, formerly a journalist and editor at BRW, it is targeted at entrepreneurs and owners of small to medium size businesses. While the site initially had both free and subscription content, within the first six months they
Continue reading Free webinar this Thursday on SmartCompany: Six Driving Forces Changing Media
Mark Pesce is one of my favorite media visionaries. Back in the late 1990s I was a big fan of Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), which was co-invented by Mark. I proposed using it as a tool for concept representation, among other applications. Mark has since focused largely on the media space, doing some great
We have just launched the Future of Media Predictions Markets, run in conjunction with the Future of Media Summit 2008. These will tap the collective wisdom of participants at the Summit in the US and Australia, as well as other media leaders globally. Anyone can participate in the prediction markets. The predictions will be used
The UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has recently launched a discussion paper titled Web 2.0 and human resources, designed to help HR professionals to understand what Web 2.0 is and to contribute to organization’s activities in the space. The paper is built around the key elements of my Web 2.0 Framework, which they
Mark Scott, Managing Director of ABC, at the Future of Media Summit: thoughts on the future of media
The Future of Media Summit 2008 is designed to have a far broader reach and impact than for just those who attend. Part of the way we do this is to get contributions from the speakers beforehand on the Future of Media blog and websites, setting the scene for deeper discussions on the day, and
Below is the sidebar I wrote in for BRW‘s Web 2.0 feature, accompanying our Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list. The reason I was most pleased about getting the list into a mainstream business magazine is that it is a significant step in getting the broader business community to understand the value and transformative
Techcrunch has just published a very interesting analysis of valuations of social networks. Here is its methodology: Our model takes Comscore data for available countries and regions. We’ve graphed each of 26 well known social networks with the data we have been able to collect. We’ve then calculated the average advertising spend (estimated by PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Continue reading UK and Australia lead the world in online advertising per capita
An article in Forbes titled What Privacy Policy? quotes data from a study by the Ponemon Institute, summarized below. What it shows is distinctly fairly different attitudes and perception from privacy and security executives at large organizations, compared to those of marketing executives. At the Future of Media Summit 2008 held in mid-July in Silicon
Continue reading What marketing executives think about your privacy
Erica Smith of Graphic Designer has done some great map mashups of US newspaper layoffs so far in 2008 (4,490+) and in the last seven months of 2007 (2,185+), as below. While you can pick out trends from the maps such as a big rise in layoffs in the North-East, this is more about underlining
Continue reading Mapping newspaper layoffs – where will the journalists go?
Some quick thoughts on the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications launch and event last week: * Everyone seems to have had a good time at the launch event – I certainly did! A great bunch of people * For me the primary reason to create the list and get it into BRW was to
Continue reading Review of the Top 100 web apps launch, event, and coverage
I set up my rossdawson Twitter account this morning. I know I’m very late to the party, but will now be exploring this space. I’ve followed Twitter and its peers from the beginning as well as I can as a non-participant. My attitude has always been that my primary online presence is my blog –
Living Networks – Chapter 5: Distributed Innovation – Intellectual Property in a Collaborative World
Download Chapter 5 of Living Networks on Emerging Technologies Every chapter of Living Networks is being released on this blog as a free download, together with commentary and updated perspectives since its original publication in 2002. For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/
The Top 100 Web 2.0 Applications list is now officially launched – the full list is below, after appearing this morning in a feature section in BRW magazine on Web 2.0. A few quick comments: * See the scope and criteria for the list. * No doubt many will disagree with what has or hasn’t
Continue reading Official launch of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list
[UPDATE:] Complete list now up. The Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications will be launched tomorrow morning. I’ve seen the BRW issue, and the 8 page feature titled The New Web Revolution looks great, including a couple of articles by technology editor Foad Fadaghi, and a few breakouts on the value of Web 2.0, challenges
Continue reading Top 100 Web 2.0 Applications list released tomorrow morning in BRW and online
Last Thursday’s Media Report on ABC Radio National features an extended interview with me on the state of Australian Web 2.0 and major online media (there is both a podcast and transcript available from the link). Some of the points we covered: Major online media players * The well-publicized challenges of NineMSN (the Australian 50/50
The Future of Media Summit 2008 is now open for registration in both Sydney and Silicon Valley. After the great success of the Future of Media Summit 2006 and Future of Media Summit 2007, the third annual event is quickly rolling up! See Future of Media Summit 2008 website for full details. Note that there
Continue reading Registrations open for Future of Media Summit 2008 – Sydney early bird still on
[UPDATE:] The complete Top 100 list is now up. The compilation of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list has now been completed. It will be made public on 19 June, when it will be the cover story on BRW magazine, accompanied by feature stories on some of the leading applications. It will be
Continue reading Early insights from the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list
Jay Cross, who has been on the leading edge of learning for well over a decade, will be running one-day workshops on Making Informal Learning Work in Melbourne on 17 June and Sydney on 19 June. Jay has been a leading light of elearning since the outset, was CEO of eLearning Forum for five years,
Continue reading Jay Cross in Australia on Making Informal Learning Work
I just got an email from Tom Stewart saying he is leaving Harvard Business Review – this was announced today with the press release below. He has been editor-in-chief for six years, during which time he maintained a strong consistency in HBR’s established editorial approach, but also injected his own highly innovative perspectives. I find
Continue reading Thomas Stewart leaves Harvard Business Review
Two months ago Wikio launched a ranking mechanism for the top blogs in the world, appearing to use a more sophisticated algorithm than the incumbent leading blog search engine Technorati. In the latest monthly reclassification by Wikio, Trends in the Living Networks has been ranked #27 of all business blogs. In part the high ranking
Continue reading Trends in the Living Networks ranked #27 business blog in the world by Wikio
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