Monthly Archives: December 2010
That’s it – work done for the year. We’re heading off to Melbourne for Christmas with Victoria’s family, then up to a cabin in the rainforests of the Dandenongs for a week. I’m back to work on January 10, and looking forward to a fabulous 2011! I’ll be occasionally checking email or you can always
Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s: EVERYTHING MEDIA What we knew as media has exploded far beyond its traditional boundaries to encompass most social activity, how organizations function, and indeed the creation of almost all economic value. Even as newspaper extinction proceeds apace, the best media operators will thrive.. See the full
I just caught up for a coffee with Nick Love, head of MySpace and IGN Australia. I haven’t been following MySpace closely for a while, so it was interesting to hear how it has repositioned. Here are a few thoughts and pointers from public information. As it happens AllThingsD yesterday put up an interesting article
Continue reading MySpace’s new strategy: building a new and valuable space in social content
Continuing my sequence of top posts from this year, today I have selected the 10 most popular and interesting posts on social media I’ve written this year. 1. We are fast learning how to create “enhanced serendipity” Reflections on the meaning of serendipity and why it essential we strive to enhance it. “Serendipity is one
Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s: ENERGY SWITCH The way we use energy will change faster than ever before in human history. Renewable energy sources, electric cars, and strict energy accounting, driven in part by carbon taxes on fossil fuels, will transform transportation and large chunks of the economy, faster than we
Our recently launch Map of the Decade triptych comprised three parts: the Map of the Decade, details on the ExaTrends of the Decade, and the 11 themes of the Zeitgeist for 2011. I think may have been a mistake to put the Map of the Decade and Zeitgeist themes in the one document, as many
Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s: ECONOMIC POWER SHIFT The sheer weight of China’s burgeoning economy together with India’s rise will change the business world’s center of gravity. The Far East will fund the continued profligate spending of the West. The weightless economy based on innovation, media, and professional services will dominate
Continue reading ExaTrend of the 2010s: Economic Power Shift
Continuing a series of review posts of 2010, here are notes from some of my keynotes this year. Given how intense my speaking schedule has been this year I have only been able to blog about a fraction of them. Here are a selection of blog content from my keynotes in 2010 in chronological order.
Continue reading Highlights from 2010: Keynote speech videos, slides, and reviews
Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s: DEMOGRAPHIC CRUNCH Many developed nations will start hitting the wall in their ability to support their elderly. The contrast with the rapid growth of developing nations will bring into focus the turn in economic fortunes. The inevitable result is mass migration, licit or illicit. See the
I’ll try to fit in a few summary posts from the year before I head off for holidays. To kick off here are our favorite infographics that we’ve launched this year, in chronological order. Click on the images for the original posts. Quite a few of these got a lot of attention! Crowdsourcing Landscape
Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s: CULTURE JAMMING Remix culture will surge, with everybody taking and jamming up slices of everything and anything to express themselves, while intellectual property law fails to keep pace. Every culture on the planet will reach everywhere – the only culture we will know is a global
TechCrunch has reported (and close-as-dammit confirmed) that Yahoo! will close down Delicious. If so, it’s close to a tragedy. Social bookmarks have been one of the defining aspects of Web 2.0. As described in our Web 2.0 Framework, sharing in very simple ways can create value for many. It is a simple step to take
Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s: COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE In a world of infinite information and diversity of opinion we will not drown, but harness our dormant potential to be more together than we are individually. Crowdsourcing platforms and aggregators of insight will be part of the planks that create the reality of
Continue reading ExaTrend of the 2010s: Collective Intelligence
Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s: CLIMATE CLASHES The divide between believers and dis-believers in climate change and the necessity for action is increasing. Beyond that, views on the potential of planetary engineering will cut to the heart of the divide on faith in or fear of technology, Whatever the meteorological data
Last month I gave the keynote at Ketchum’s Global Media Network meeting in New York on The Future of Global Media. Immediately after my keynote I participated in a panel on media in the BRIC countries. The other panellists were Ketchum executives from Brazil, Russia, and India. Since their China team were kept at home
Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s: BIO DESTINY Now that biological and genomic technologies are largely driven by information technologies, they are on the same exponential trajectory. Medicines personalized to the individual, genetic modification of our children, drugs to increase intelligence, and life extension will all become commonplace. See the full 3
This is the now the 12th year that I and some of my friends are running the Self-Employed and Entrepreneurs Xmas Drinks in Sydney. It began when I and many of my friends didn’t have the glamorous and social (i.e. more than one person!) Christmas parties of the employed, so decided to celebrate together. So,
Excerpt from the list of ExaTrends of the 2010s: AUGMENTED HUMANS More than ever before, we can transcend our human abilities. Traditional memory aids are supplemented by augmented reality glasses or contact lenses, thought interfaces allow us to control machines, exoskeletons give us superhuman power. Machines will not take over humanity… because they will be
I was recently asked to do an interview for the Turkish version of CNBC eBusiness magazine on crowdsourcing. I’m not sure whether the article will appear online – I’ll share it if so. In any case here are the answers I gave the interviewer: 1) The term “crowdsourcing” first coined by Jeff Howe in a
Continue reading The boundaries of crowdsourcing and how it relates to open innovation
It is traditional at the turn of the year to look forward at what is to come. We have crystallized our thinking on the year ahead and the decade of the 2010s in a new 3-page visual landscape. Note on ExaTrends: Given the exponential pace of change of today we are far beyond a world
Continue reading Map of the Decade, ExaTrends of the Decade, and the Zeitgeist for 2011
One of the most surprising things about Wikileaks is that it took this long for the massive shift to transparency to have an impact on this scale. The trend to transparency has long been evident, and sites to facilitate leaks have been around for many years now. The inevitability of a transparent world has long
Continue reading Transparency has long been driving business and society… but it’s only just begun
Yesterday I did an interview on ABC News about Wikileaks and its implications. A few of the points I discuss are: * The extraordinary social polarization emerging from the Wikileaks debate * How many people feel strongly enough about the issues to provide support to the cyber-attacks defending Wikileaks, a first for hacker attacks *
Continue reading ABC News: Interview on Wikileaks and the future
SmartCompany recently featured an excellent article on The next 10 social media trends, which received considerable attention and was syndicated through a number of other outlets. I was quoted in the article talking about social shopping and mini-blogging. Here are a few further thoughts on mini-blogs. I have written another post on the rise of
Continue reading The rise of mini-blogging in 2011: Tumblr will continue to soar
SmartCompany recently featured an excellent article on The next 10 social media trends, which received considerable attention and was syndicated through a number of other outlets. I was quoted in the article talking about social shopping and mini-blogs. Here are a few further thoughts on social shopping. I have written another post on the rise
Continue reading The rise of social shopping in 2011: 7 examples of where it is going
Last week I wrote that The Future of TV is community, reflecting on the content in my keynote from the ‘Commercial Break’ conference run by Regional TV Marketing conference held in Byron Bay a few weeks ago. I have just found the videos released from the event – below is an 8 minute highlights video
Continue reading Video highlights of Regional TV Marketing conference
German magazine Screen.TV recently asked 7 prominent media figures for their views on the future of TV: “What will you watch on television in ten years, and what do you imagine your TV will look like?” Here are our responses – links are translated by Google from the German: – Jane Barratt, President, Young &
Continue reading What TV will be like in 10 years: 7 opinions from media leaders
The Australian government is gaining momentum in its Government 2.0 initiatives, marked today by the launch by the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) of a handy Government 2.0 Primer. The Report of the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce was submitted in December 2009. Although the Taskforce chairman Nicholas Gruen had earlier noted that Australian Government
Continue reading Australian government releases Government 2.0 Primer
A few weeks ago I gave the opening keynote at the annual conference of the Regional TV Marketing association, held in Byron Bay, Australia, on the topic of Creating the Future of Media. As I started preparing my keynote I realized that many of my usual messages about media fragmentation and re-aggregation weren’t the most
Continue reading The Future of TV is community: linking social media with big screens
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