Monthly Archives: August 2010
Melcrum recently released a report on How to use social media to solve critical communication issues, with as usual some great case studies and many practical insights. Go to the report website for a full overview and executive summary. I was asked to write the closing section in the report, on The Future of Social
Continue reading 7 Shifts: The Future of Social Media and Internal Communications
Flipboard and Paper.li are two of the hottest properties in media today. Over the last six weeks they have taken social news curation to a new level. This will undoubtedly soon spawn hordes of competitors, while these leaders in the field continue to evolve their offerings. The result will be that we all have far
Continue reading Flipboard and Paper.li: Social news curation hits the tipping point
As part of our ongoing research into iPad and media, and also to provide some insights for the audience of the iPad Strategy Workshop we ran at Newspaper Publishers Association, we created a visualization of the top 30 paid and free iPad apps in Australia, as of 24 August 2010. Click on the image for
Continue reading Visualization of top iPad News apps in Australia
The iPad Strategy Workshop at Newspaper Publishers Association Future Forum was a big success. In a large room laid out for 120 there was just standing room by the time it started, with great content and a highly engaged audience. The Twitter stream for #iPadStrat gives a pretty fair overview of proceedings, though there were
Continue reading Presentation from iPad Strategy Workshop at Newspaper Publishers Association
This morning I ran the iPad Strategy Workshop at Newspaper Publishers Association Future Forum in Sydney. To provide a framework for discussion at the workshop (and also as part of our ongoing research into effective approaches to the iPad for media and news organizations) I created a visual framework of key strategic issues, as below.
Following my live notes from this morning of the Newspaper Publishers Association Future Forum conference, and before my closing keynote, here are quick notes from the afternoon session. Jan Rezab from CandyTech in Czech Republic was originally going to speak about mobile but decided that it would be more valuable to discuss Facebook. According to
Continue reading Live notes: Afternoon of PANPA Future Forum conference
I am at the Newspaper Publishers Association Future Forum conference, where I am giving the closing keynote later today. I will endeavor to capture a few thoughts through the day. The overall tone is of an industry that absolutely recognizes that it is in dramatic transition, and is by no means in denial of the
Continue reading Live notes: morning of Newspaper Publishers Association Future Forum in Sydney
Tomorrow I’m doing the closing keynote at the Newspaper Publishers Association Future Forum conference in Sydney, with already considerable attention on what I will discuss. I have just prepared a framework to crystallize some of my thoughts on the news landscape today, which I’ve called The NewsScape. Individual channels – such as print, TV, internet,
On Thursday I am giving the closing keynote at Newspaper Publishers Association Future Forum conference in Sydney. I gave a sneak preview of some of what I will be covering, leading to a wide variety of coverage including in The Australian, by Roy Greenslade in The Guardian, on The Inquisitr, and on Mumbrella (including a
Continue reading Newspapers become irrelevant and media is reborn by 2022
We have just posted an ad over at CrowdsourcingResults for a senior researcher/ writer for a forthcoming report on crowdsourcing we are doing. I’ve posted the ad below as well – please pass on word if you can think of anyone who’s perfect for this. Seeking exceptional senior researcher/ writer for report on crowdsourcing Advanced
At the turn of the decade I selected Culture Jamming as one of the top 10 trends of the 2010s. We have a fantastic example of that in the Auto-Tune the News series from members of the Gregory Brothers band. These take actual TV news coverage and use auto-tune to create songs. The latest song
Continue reading Culture jamming is where it’s at: morphing the news into a Billboard hit single
Ofcom, UK’s communications regulator, annually produces what is the most detailed study of the local communications marketplace available anywhere in the world. Every year it provides deep insights into many aspects of media and communications usage and the state of the industry, and Communications Market Report 2010 is another gem. Depending on your interests different
Continue reading Key trends in media and communications usage
Here is the first of a series of infographics we are creating on the iPad and media. It shows the growth in sales of the iPad, including actual sales figures announced by Apple and forecasts by a variety of players for the end of this calendar year.
Very interesting results out from a survey by Cooper Murphy Webb of British iPad users: Source: Cooper Murphy Webb The study of 1034 iPad users in the UK showed that 31% prefer reading magazines and newspapers on their iPad, followed by 26% on their laptop/ computer and 24% on print.
On August 27 in Sydney The Insight Exchange is running an iPad Strategy Workshop as part of the Newspaper Publishers Association Future Forum conference. It is free for PANPA members and very inexpensive for others, including discounts for members of industry partners, so if you’re in Sydney I hope to see you there. See here
Earlier today I spoke on a live webcast on the Future of Workplace Communication as part of Viocorp’s Future Forum series. I took notes during the panel session and posted these live on my blog right after the event. I took notes while the other panellists were speaking: Nicky Wakefield, head of human capital at
Continue reading Thoughts on the future of workplace communication
I am at The Future of Workplace Communications webcast, which is an hour-long discussion broadcast as live video as part of Viocorp’s Future Forum series. (Archived event now available) The four panellists are Oscar Trimboli, head of the Information Workers group at Microsoft, Nicky Wakefield who runs the Human Capital practice of Deloitte Australia, Phil
Continue reading The Future of Workplace Communications – Live notes from Future Forum webcast
I recently tweeted to announce The Insight Exchange’s iPad Strategy Workshop, which will be held as part of the Newspaper Publisher’s Assocation Future Forum in Sydney on August 27. I was a bit surprised by the response, firstly from @trib who said: @rossdawson seriously, Ross, *iPad strategy*? Isn’t that incredibly limiting and the sign of
Continue reading “iPad Strategy”: incredibly limiting or a useful frame?
This morning in Adelaide I delivered the first of five keynotes I’m doing as part of a Telstra Business national roadshow on cloud computing. I am giving the opening keynote at the breakfast series, followed by Telstra Chief Technology Officer Hugh Bradlow or his key staff. In the preparation phase I wrote up a brief
Continue reading Breathe in the cloud! Keynote for Telstra Business
Rachel Slattery’s second Tech23 event is coming up on 19 August in Sydney, providing a showcase for the best start-ups in Australia. I was able to spend some of the day at last year’s event, and blogged about the showcase and the SaaS/ In the Cloud session. I had been thinking that Australia needed a
Continue reading Tech23: showcasing the best of Australian start-ups
It is sometimes difficult to describe what my companies do. That is now a little bit easier, as we have created a flyer describing the key services of Advanced Human Technologies, focused on clients in the technology and media sector. The flyer does not mention our publishing and ventures activities, but covers the kind of
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