Monthly Archives: December 2011

From news-on-paper to news-on-many-channels

Ross Dawson, December 30, 2011 at 10:56 am

I’m officially on holidays, but back at home between a family Christmas and beach sojourn and doing quite a few interviews as I go, so I’ll slip in a quick blog post or two. Yesterday I was interviewed by Toronto radio station Newstalk 1010 about the future (or lack thereof) of newspapers, coming off the

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The most contagious marketing memes of 2011

Ross Dawson, December 18, 2011 at 10:26 pm

Contagious Magazine has just launched its annual Most Contagious 2011, “reviewing the most innovative exercises in branding, technology, and popular culture,” taking a marketer’s perspective on what has succeeded this year. The slides are below (you really need to view in full screen as it’s very detailed), or you can also see the Most Contagious

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PushStart launches new startup accelerator program in Australia

Ross Dawson, December 14, 2011 at 9:05 pm

The Australian startup scene continues to heat up. Arguably Sydney is already in the top 10 tech startup cities in the world, with activity rapidly growing through this year. The latest news is that the mentor program PushStart (which I participate in as a mentor) is today launching its planned PushStart Accelerator program. I wrote

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How to make money from crowdsourcing: A framework for Crowd Business Models

Ross Dawson, December 12, 2011 at 11:38 am

I think one of the most valuable aspects of our newly-launched book Getting Results From Crowds is the analysis of Crowd Business Models. While crowdsourcing is clearly a fantastic way for organizations large and small to get access to unparalleled resources and scale their operations, it is also increasingly central to many companies’ business models.

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The realities of intellectual property and crowdsourcing: don’t hold on too tight

Ross Dawson, December 9, 2011 at 11:33 am

When you talk about crowdsourcing, consistently one of the first objections you hear is worries about losing valuable ideas and intellectual property to unscrupulous overseas contractors. Our new book Getting Results From Crowds is designed to help people get the most value from crowdsourcing. Part of doing that is giving perspective on the challenges and

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Apologies! The rossdawson.com contact form has been down since late October

Ross Dawson, December 8, 2011 at 11:10 pm

Not a good start to the day. Through a potential client following up on the phone and email after having not received a response to a message on the RossDawson.com contact form, I discovered that it has not been working since the end of October. It is now working again. So if you have tried

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Launching my new book today! Getting Results From Crowds

Ross Dawson, December 7, 2011 at 11:37 am

Today we are launching my new book Getting Results From Crowds: The definitive guide to using crowdsourcing to grow your business! This has been, in all, many years in the planning and making, and I’m extremely happy with how it has come out. It is definitely my most useful book, and while it’s hard to

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Many sensors + Imagination = The Internet of Things

Ross Dawson, December 6, 2011 at 9:57 pm

Last week I gave a keynote at the National Broadband Network – what’s in it for me? conference in Bunbury, Western Australia, a town 2 hours south of Perth, the most geographically isolated city in the world. Not surprisingly the hunger for broadband in the region is enormous – you could feel it in the

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12 Themes for 2012: what we can expect in the year ahead

Ross Dawson, December 4, 2011 at 9:42 pm

Towards the end of each year I share some thoughts on what awaits in the year ahead. It is actually a lot easier to look years into the future than just a single year, as while we can readily discern broad trends, the major events in a year are usually unforeseeable, though they may express

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Want to buy drinks for a bunch of Sydney entrepreneurs?

Ross Dawson, December 1, 2011 at 7:47 am

This is now the thirteenth year that I and some friends have organized the Annual Entrepreneurs and Self-Employed Xmas Drinks in Sydney. The reality is that many who are setting up companies, working solo, or running small businesses don’t have the kinds of Christmas parties that employees of big companies do. So we celebrate together,

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Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of AHT Group, which consists of 3 companies: consulting, publishing, and ventures firm Advanced Human Technologies, future and strategy firm Future Exploration Network, and events company The Insight Exchange.

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.