Monthly Archives: May 2011
One of the key facets of the rise of the reputation economy is that reputation and influence can increasingly be measured. The rise of tools that measure people’s influence in social media channels, such as PeerIndex, Klout, and Twitter Grader, is just the beginning of a far broader shift to metrics of influence and reputation.
Continue reading List of the top 100 Twitter influencers in Australia
Last Friday I was at the opening party for the Vivid Sydney festival, on East Circular Quay directly opposite the Opera House. The opening speeches concluded by triggering an absolutely awesome light show on the Opera House, called Lighting the Sails. The Opera House has been lit up for the last two festival, but this
Continue reading Awesome 3D visual mapping on Sydney Opera House
I am at the launch of Digital Sydney, part of the Vivid Sydney and Creative Sydney festivals. The reality is that for much of the last decade and more, the New South Wales government has been among the least supportive of the Australia states for the digital and creative industries, with in contrast Victoria, Queensland,
Continue reading Launch of Digital Sydney: Ideas, energy, success stories, and massive potential
Last week just before I flew to China I did an interview on SkyNews Tech Report about the future of today’s technology. Topics we discussed in the interview include:
Much ink and many pixels had already been shed on Britain’s super injunction laws before the last week, but the Ryan Giggs case has pushed this into the stratosphere. In case you’ve been hiding in a closet, Manchester United star Ryan Giggs was awarded a “super injunction” from British courts, forbidding the press to report
Yesterday I was interviewed by fellow futurist Eric Garland for a podcast series which was also featured on the World Future Society website. You can listen to the podcast on those sites or below (note that I have had some problems with the plug-in). Our discussion ranged across global demographics, shifts in manufacturing, robotics, and
Continue reading The role of a futurist is to help people gain perspective and transcend boundaries
After watching the documentary Gasland my wife Victoria has become incensed about the practice of fracking, as hydraulic fracturing is commonly known. The issue has received global attention, but is also being practised close to home for us near Sydney’s water supplies. Victoria has been wondering why people don’t seem to be paying attention to
Continue reading Music videos are the new journalism: learn about fracking!
I gave my keynote on How Technology is Transforming Business for Australian Institute of Company Directors this morning here in Beijing. Based on the responses of the 500+ company directors in the audience, they absolutely understand the need for change. Here are their answers on audience response units to questions I posed during my presentation.
I am at the annual conference of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, held this year in Beijing. It is fantastic that Australian company directors are choosing to meet here rather than at home, broadening vistas and opportunities. The Grand Ballroom at China World Hotel is full, with around 500 people here. While I don’t
Continue reading Notes from the Australian Institute of Company Directors in Beijing
I saw Connected: The Film by Tiffany Shlain last night at its Australian premiere, organized by Annalie Killian. The first thing I have to say is that the film is absolutely fantastic. It nails how we as humans live an intensely interdependent world, and how our recognition of and response to that will determine our
Continue reading A story about Connected: The Film and why you must see it
The Australian Chambers Business Congress on 1-2 June is shaping up to be one of the top business conferences of the year in Australia, with an awesome speaker line-up. The Congress is organized by the Australian Chamber Alliance, a consortium of all the major business chambers across Australia. Speakers include Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Porter, Steve
Continue reading Crowdsourcing among an awesome speaker line-up at Australian Business Congress
The opportunity for television is to become a truly participative media. Over the last year or so my views on the future of TV have significantly shifted, to be far more optimistic for the media. Last year I gave the opening keynote at the Regional TV Marketing conference, and subsequently wrote how The Future of
Continue reading The rise of participative TV (hint: that’s better than social TV)
Tomorrow morning I give the breakfast keynote at Think Business 2011, making it my third keynote this week. For those attending the breakfast, here are my slides, which go through and flesh out our recent Success in a Connected World framework and also touch on related issues such as personal branding. The usual disclaimers apply:
Continue reading Keynote slides: Building Success in a Connected World
I’m in Beijing next week to do the keynote at the AICD conference on How Technology is Transforming Business and guest lecture at Beijing Foreign Studies University on The End of Newspapers and Future of News. While I’m in Beijing I’m keen to catch up with any local folks on Twitter/ Weibo/ social media and
Continue reading Beijing social media/ future of media meetup on May 19
I am always trying to get better at using visuals to support my keynotes and presentations. I use many videos, and we have created quite a few Flash animations that I embed into Powerpoint to make them more dynamic. I have been aware of Prezi as a dynamic presentation tool for some time now, though
Our latest visual framework is The Transformation of Business. Many of my keynotes and client workshops at the moment are to high-level business audiences such as boards of directors and top executive teams who need to understand the essence of how the business landscape is changing and the implications. While you can never capture the
Continue reading New Framework: The Transformation of Business
When I’m in Beijing next week I’ll be doing a guest lecture at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China’s premier international studies university, where many of the country’s foreign ministers have studied. I will be speaking on The end of newspapers and the future of news. While many are familiar with my Newspaper Extinction Timeline, that
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The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has recently released some very interesting research on Navigating News Online, digging into how people navigate to news sites and what takes them away. Among the interesting insights was data on how news website traffic comes from Google and Facebook, shown below.
A little while ago I co-authored a White Paper for SAP titled Service Delivery Innovation: Creating Client Value and Enhancing Profitability, focused on large professional services organisations. Later today I’m running a strategy workshop for a large technology vendor with a significant professional services arm. In the course of preparing for the session I looked
Continue reading 5 Driving Forces of Global Professional Services
I wrote up some brief notes from the Gallery of Modern Art’s recent panel discussion on the future of the 21st century. Radio National’s Future Tense program subsequently broadcast the discussion and provided a full transcript for those who would like to see more of the content. One of the many interesting topics of discussion
Continue reading Making sense of and filtering information overload
Nielsen has come out with some interesting research on tablet usage in the US and associated changes in the use of other devices. Source: Nielsen It seems that some of the data may simply reflect changes in usage rather than the direct impact of the use of tablets. For example, Nielsen highlights the fact that
Yesterday I completed co-presenting the three-part Ketchum webinar series on Tapping the Power of Mobile. The feedback was excellent, with record audiences of Ketchum clients and staff for the series. Here is an overview of the content we covered over the three webinars. The final session was on Where Mobile is Going, which looked at
Continue reading 6 uncertainties that will shape the future of mobile operating systems
The Imagine Cup is an initiative by Microsoft in which students from around the world to come up with technology solutions to solve the world’s biggest problems. This morning at an event at the Powerhouse Museum it was announced that Sydney will host the global 2012 Imagine Cup. They showed a video, as below, of
While the subtitle of my book Living Networks referred to the ‘hyperconnected’ economy, the reality is that living networks are built primarily on human relationships based on mutual knowledge and trust. Here is a brief excerpt from the book about what is changing in the world of trust. Trust is a business perennial—from the days
Continue reading 3 major shifts in the nature of trust in business relationships
May is going to be a very busy month. I have 10 speaking engagements in Australia and China over the next five weeks, as well as several ongoing consulting projects, and an ever-increasing array of active web projects on our plate. Next week my one public event will be a breakfast keynote on Friday 13
Continue reading Keynote on Success in a Connected World at Think Business next week
This definitely counts as big news. Osama Bin Laden is dead after over a decade of trying. Interestingly, in many news outlets the fact that the news leaked on Twitter before President Obama’s announcement to the nation almost rivals the news itself. Just in following my own Twitter stream I knew the news (or at
Continue reading Telling the story of how the Osama news came out on Twitter first
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